Maitreya's journal
Member since: Nov 11 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 2
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19 Mar 2013
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pea pre-sprouting sort of works
snap peas - super sugar snap , snap peas - super sugar snap , peas - Oregon sugar pod , peas - Oregon sugar...I tried pre-sprouting my peas this year, and did a side by side comparison with direct sowing. The pre-sprouted ones did in fact come up about a week earlier for two of the varieties of peas that I planted. For the sugar snaps, I only gained a couple of days. However, for a fair comparison, I ...Clear 10°C / 50°F -
09 Mar 2013
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I’m busy next weekend, so I went ahead and planted all my March veggies this weekend instead of waiting for it to warm up a little bit. Asian greens, fennel, lettuces, arugula, cilantro, and broccoli raab joined the peas and radishes planted previously. I also took new soil temperature rea...Clear 13°C / 55°F -
05 Mar 2013mesclun - sassy salad Harvesting
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Overcast 10°C / 50°FMy little flat of mesclun grew up pretty nicely and has been supplying microgreens for sandwiches for the last few weeks. One more harvest or two and they’ll be done.
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03 Mar 2013
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I got a new toy at the garden store the other day: a soil thermometer. I’ve been wanting to track soil temperature to better optimize my planting schedule. Here’s a nice post from Cliff Mass’s weather blog on soil temperature in the Seattle area: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/...Mostly Cloudy 10°C / 50°F -
17 Feb 2013bean beds garden
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I just recently learned I should be liming my planting beds (that’s what I get for skipping over the boring soil preparation chapters in the gardening books). Since I still have overwintering stuff in most of my beds, I’m just going to lime each one as it gets switched over to the sp... -
16 Feb 2013peas - Oregon sugar pod , snap peas - super sugar snap , and peas - Alaska early bush
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Last year, I did an experiment to see if I could get my peas to take off faster: peas on Presidents’ Day The idea was to make little pockets of seed starting mix right in the bed, so the seeds have the nice soil to sprout, but don’t have to be transplanted. I alternated planting peas... -
26 Jan 2013greens - heirloom quick stirfry blend and mesclun - sassy salad
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I’m getting antsy for gardening to start again. The catalogs have been almost enough to tide me over, but not quite. I’d seen somewhere that you could plant baby greens in the plastic containers that lettuce mixes come in at the grocery store, even using the lid as a driptray undern... -
15 Dec 2012
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chickens no longer on strike (plus more winter updates)
thyme Harvesting, 5-way cover crop Sprouting, chives Thinning Out, shallots - Holland red Sprouting, Garlic...I seem to have forgotten to log a bunch of stuff lately. I was trying to remember the exact dates of everything and just gave up and decided to log it all at once. The only really belated ones are that my garlic and my cover crop sprouted a long time ago, like way back in November. The best upda...Overcast 5°C / 41°F -
29 Sep 2012Hops - cascade Harvesting, Hops - nugget Harvesting, and Hops - centennial Harvesting
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Our first year with the hops didn’t go so great. They were fun to watch bolt up the twine to the roof, but they didn’t yield much. We probably just planted them in containers that were too small. Next year, they’ll go into the ground, in front of an even taller wall. It might ha... -
05 Sep 20122012 African horned melon Harvesting
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I harvested this from my Mexican sour gherkin plant. It does not look like the cute tiny watermelons that everyone claims to get from their Mexican sour gherkins. It’s not that I just let it overgrow: it was spiky even as a baby (it’s about 4 inches long now). The spikes are really...
