Certified organic produce
We sure know how to celebrate the New Year! We just finished rebuilding our propagation house benches. Several weeks ago, voles ate nearly 2000 baby veg plants in our propagation green house.Never again! We rebuilt the heated benches with metal pipe legs that rodents can’t climb and little sheet metal barriers to prevent rodents from…
Maintaining organic certification requires keeping complete, extensive and detailed records about all aspects of farm work, and requires keeping copies of receipts for all purchases of seeds, fertilizers, etc. Even market gardeners that do not seek organic certification must maintain extensive records to be compliant with food safety laws as codified in the FSMA. As…
Maintaining organic certification requires keeping complete, extensive and detailed records about all aspects of farm work, and requires keeping copies of receipts for all purchases of seeds, fertilizers, etc. Even market gardeners that do not seek organic certification must maintain extensive records to be compliant with food safety laws as codified in the FSMA. As…
When my pea crops stopped producing, I allowed those pods that had become to mature to dry on the vine. When shelled, this yielded 3 lbs of snow pea seeds and 2 lbs of shelling pea seeds. I will use these to produce microgreen pea shoots over the winter. This amount of seeds purchased commercially…
I am building a high tunnel greenhouse this summer. Only the back wall remains to be completed, as shown below. The structure is 13′ by 64′, with the hoops 7.5′ tall at the center. I have been roughly following the plans described in this pdf from Johnny’s Seeds. The beauty of this approach is that…
This year I am introducing a new method for making low tunnels. 6′ lengths of 3/4″ poly tubing are threaded onto lengths of bamboo. The bamboo is inserted in the bed to create an arc. These are linked at the centerline with a baling twine, and the hoops are then covered with poly film.
Here is my new cable-heated bench for getting my tomato starts off to a strong start. 100′ of heating cable on a 3×12′ bench. An Inkbird C206 thermostat controls Redi-heat 8554 cable. [Update 4/5/2017] Sadly, the heating cables stopped heating after only one month in use. The thermostat continues to work well, so it now…