Tag: cold frames

When I wrote about the cold frame heater I’d just made, I didn’t mention that the other side of this story involves the several hundred thousand red wiggler worms I’ve got living in plastic buckets in the garage. They aren’t squatters. They are there because I built an insulated room for them and now I’d […]

For a couple of years now I’ve fooled around with adding heat to cold frames to extend the growing season in both spring and fall. In a recent DIY project I made a low-wattage electrical heater that heats the soil rather than the air above the soil. In the spring, I might use this unit […]

Here’s a look at what’s going on with Garden Cam 2. You can read Part I here. You can see parts of the 3 rows on this camera. The second raspberry plot is at the bottom of the frame. The raspberry canes are about 2 feet high now. The semi-dwarf Honeycrisp apple tree is toward […]

  On April 19 I speculated that the second garden cam would be up and running within a week. It’s turned out to be closer to two weeks, but now everything is working well. As with any project, or any part of a project, you might start with a general idea and then alter it […]

I continue to do experiments with stretching the garden season to year-round. If I can grow greens continually, there will be no reason to freeze greens. My plans include adding more cold frames and perhaps a miniature hoop house. In addition to the kale and leeks and lettuce and spinach that made it through the […]

“I’m strong to the finish ’cause I eats me spinach, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man …” “I’m hearty and hale ’cause I eats me kale, I’m Eno the Guru Man …” I eats me spinach, too, and me broccoli, me Swiss chard, me lettuce, me Chinese cabbage, me pak choi, and me other greens, but […]

We spend time in the summer growing produce and then spend time in the winter cooking it up and eating it. Not a bad arrangement. There are folks willing to point out that a person would do better spending the time earning money and spending the money at the grocery store. No matter how you […]

We did this video blog in about as unprepared a way as you could imagine. No script, no thought, just aim the camera and shoot. You can see that a lot of care went into my wardrobe, too. We plan on doing more video, although this time of year isn’t the best for showing off […]

Whenever I set out to save the world I usually start in one place and wind up somewhere completely different, often frustrated. You’d almost think the world doesn’t want to be saved, at least not single-handedly by me. When recycling came to our community years ago I applauded it. Even before there were vehicles dedicated […]

I’ve been talking about the garden but I haven’t shown you many pictures. Here it is, then, a pictorial romp through the garden. Any one of these photos could be the subject of a whole ‘nother blog.   My village has got ordinances against all kinds of things, including showing affection on public streets, but […]