We haven’t signed a lease on our quarter acre but we’ve had some good conversations with the farm incubator manager. Since it seems like we’re moving forward, I pulled out my crop planning database this weekend to prepare a list of seeds to order. Thank you, October self! I had fun revisiting my fall choices and got excited about them all over again. So I thought I’d share a few of our featured crops that I am most looking forward…
I got the best Valentine’s day bouquet! I was over at our p-patch and our winter kale was looking great. We started this kale from seed last spring and it is still going strong. And late winter into spring is when our kale thrives. We finally have more than 10 hours of daylight in the Pacific Northwest and the kale seems to know that spring is around the corner. In just the next month or so the kale plants will…
I put my name on the p-patch community garden program wait list the first year I moved to Seattle. Five years later I excitedly told Mark that he was lucky to have married into (well, I guess at the time “dated into”) a p-patch spot. This is our 4th season at the p-patch. In addition to meeting Mark and finding my two wonderful running groups, it’s one of the best connections I’ve made in Seattle. I’ve learned so much about…