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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Artisian Bread in 5 minutes a day...Love it

Finally tried making Artisian Bread .  Its so easy and so good.  Another way that I'm trying to eliminate processed food from our home.

My little bedroom window plant nursery....

Earlier this spring I tried planting seeds directly into my p-patch with mixed results.  My lettuce seeds did not come up at all.  I think part of the reason was that my seeds were really old - more than the recommended three years.  Once I reached that realization I decided to try my seeds at home in the egg crates.  After thinking about it for a month and then intending to actually plant the seeds for about a month...I finally did!

My bedroom window has excellent sun exposure and it is out of reach of tiny helping hands (aka my daughter Madeleine).

One more step toward growing all my of salad greens for the summer and fall.

All of my salad starts
 
Arugula starts planted 6/11/13

Cut and come again lettuce - blackseeded sampson Heirloom seeds
Cut and come again lettuce - oakleaf lettuce blend
basil blend - I'm going to plant these starts in a strawberry pot.


Red Kale Starts

White Kale starts started just 6 days ago.  Look at Red Kale started 11days before.
 
One more step toward growing all of our salad greens for at least the summer and fall if not year round.






Friday, June 7, 2013

Garden update

It's been awhile since I posted an update on the p-patch garden. Tuesday I found 13 tomato starts on the free table at my P-Patch garden!  Wednesday I got up early so I could run down to the garden and plant them before everyone else in house was awake for day.
 
Garden bed with lettuce, peas, carrots and cawliflower
Tomato bed after my plants had been trenched and trellised

One of my cold frame boxes sans cold frame lid.  Right now it has zuccini and beans growing in it.