Posts Tagged: Farming

Miscellany — Comments Off
26
May 09

The Home-Grown Project, Day 40

I never knew I had such green thumbs.

Other than the first plant­ing of French Breakfast and Cherry Belle radishes, which I’ve har­vested, every­thing is still in the ground and doing well. I’ll be har­vest­ing ici­cle and Easter egg radishes in about a week, and turnips not long after that. I’ll need to cut down the col­lards and do some­thing with those, too, while they’re still young and tasty.

If all the pep­per plants bear fruit, I’ll be up to my eye­balls in bells. Tomatoes, too. And don’t get me started on the zucchini.

Miscellany — Comments
1
May 09

The Home-Grown Project, 2 weeks in

I’ll write up some­thing a lit­tle later, but for now, here’s a brief pho­to­graphic tour of the progress I’m mak­ing in The Home-Grown Project.

Miscellany — Comments
5
Apr 09

The Home-Grown Project

For the last sev­eral years, I’ve planted herbs to use in my kitchen exploits—nothing fancy, just basil, chives, mint and rose­mary, usually—but I’ve always pur­chased rel­a­tively mature plants and pot­ted them in larger con­tain­ers. This year, I decided to try grow­ing from seed. After count­less trips to hard­ware stores and nurs­eries, I finally set­tled on a longer list to try:

  • Genovese basil, to use pri­mar­ily as a pizza topping
  • Mammoth dill, as a fla­vor­ing agent in my ongo­ing fas­ci­na­tion with all things pickled
  • Chives, both gar­lic and traditional
  • Flat-leaf pars­ley
  • Rosemary
  • Thyme
  • Oregano

I started the seeds in early March, not long before I left for SXSW, in Planters’ Pride Peat-Free Greenhouse Kits.

Oregano in the greenhouse kit

Oregano in the green­house kit

Parsley in the greenhouse kit

Parsley in the green­house kit

Continue read­ing →