http://www.geekygardener.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:47:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first snow is the truest sign that the growing season is finally over.  Unfortunately, due to the scope of last year's garden, the growing season was over much, much sooner for me.  Now, the snow signals the end of the Vetch's growth (although it doesn't seem to have established ... http://www.geekygardener.com/?p=49 This past week, I've spent most of my time reading various blogs.  Here's what I've gone through so far: Tiny Farm Blog This guy is living my dream.  He runs a tiny organic farm in Canada (Zone 4!  I wouldn't want to be stuck there!), and makes something resembling a living at ... http://www.geekygardener.com/?p=47 For the past two years, I have waited patiently for Honeycrisp apples to appear in the grocery store. At nearly $3 a pound, this is not an exceptionally affordable habit, but there is absolutely nothing nicer in the world than a nice crisp, sweet Honeycrisp apple. Since I now ... http://www.geekygardener.com/?p=45 Another year of poor blog updates. This year, I managed to recieve a harvest of some note from my meager pot-garden on the back deck. We got enough tomatoes for a spaghetti dinnner (although in their small pots, I could never keep them well-watered enough), and enough Jalapenos, Cayenne and ... http://www.geekygardener.com/?p=39 We've been about a month without a hard frost now, and the weather has been absolutely spring-like. Every other day brings rain and thunderstorms, and it couldn't be a more ideal time for growing things. Unfortunately, I messed up when I planted peppers and tomatoes 8 and 7 weeks before ... http://www.geekygardener.com/?p=23 Spring may be less than a week old, but it is decidedly arrived here in the Louisville area.  Although we are still expecting a number of frosts, and lots of cold nights yet, the weather is gradually breaking, and it's almost time to direct sow hardier things, like Lettuce. I plan ... http://www.geekygardener.com/?p=14 This year, I plan on supplementing my pantry with quite a bit of garden grown produce, so I'm getting an early start.  Right now, it looks about like this in Louisville: Here's my seed growing setup: The pods are filled with those expandy peat pod things, which actually work pretty well in ... http://www.geekygardener.com/?p=12 Well, the plants are making pretty good progress. I've just now figured out everything that the birds have taken out, so a second round of seeds will be planted this weekend (along with the garden box construction). Not much to update about, but here's a picture: http://www.geekygardener.com/?p=11 I noticed the other day that my bean plants have practically exploded out of the ground. I though I would set up my camera to make a stop-motion film, and maybe capture some interesting growth. Unfortunately, this wasn't the case. You can, however, see the plants tracking ... http://www.geekygardener.com/?p=10 Well, once again, I have seedlings. This time, they're out on the balcony, so they're getting plenty of sunlight. The Lettuce and Basil have sprouted up first, and aside from any bird casualties (I'll know what didn't survive in a couple more days, I imagine), everything else ... http://www.geekygardener.com/?p=8