When you start seeds indoors in a vegetable garden, it can be difficult getting your schedule down to ensure that start your vegetable seeds with enough lead time that they are mature enough to venture outside but also not so large they take over your growing area. Personally this has been a difficult part for me where I am really good getting the early vegetables started on time (onions, peppers,…
We actually had some great weather the first couple weekends of the farmers market. We got our typical early season purchases (kettle corn and apples) though also got some strangely slightly higher priced flowers for mothers day. Though we did learn something important after our first visit…be sure to not eat right before going to the farmers market and stay hungry for the great food.
Well good news I got the chicken coop done just in time for the little guys to move out there this weekend. In all I like how it turned out and for now feel it should be pretty secure with the solid floor, elevated coop, and entirely wrapped in 1/2 inch hardware cloth (a bit pricey but probably worth the cost of waking up to raccoons in the coop…)…
width=”549″ height=”309″ /> This weekend we picked up our chicks at Keep It Simple Farm. Our three kids, my two nieces, and one of my daughter’s friends each picked out a chick and we ended up with one Silkie and five Ffrizzles. They are currently two weeks old so I now have four weeks to finish building a chicken coop. Fortunately the first weekend was very productive. My design…
width=”350″ height=”418″ /> A week before I was about to move to my new house with a much larger yard I got an email from the nice people at Mantis asking if I would like to review their 4 cycle tiller/cultivator. Given I needed to start from scratch of a new garden and had a decent amount of land to use it on it sounded like a great idea….
width=”549″ height=”309″ /> So after decades of living in home in suburbia with a minimal amount of land this month I have moved to a new location where we have 1 acre of land to work with. Great news is there is awesome potential for gardening here, it also means I have to start over from scratch leaving my previous more mature plants behind… Though this definitely provides me…
width=”550″ height=”309″ /> My three year old was really excited to start planting some seeds so we planted some red onions and put them in the grow box. This is a little ahead of my usual planting schedule but only by about a week. Though the grow box does have automated watering my daughter insisted on watering them herself with her favorite yellow elephant watering can. If all goes…
alt=”pumpkin_cheesecake” src=”https://i0.wp.com/www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pumpkin_cheesecake.jpg?resize=550%2C320″ srcset=”https://i0.wp.com/www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pumpkin_cheesecake.jpg?w=550&ssl=1 550w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pumpkin_cheesecake.jpg?resize=300%2C174&ssl=1 300w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px” /> I made my first pumpkin cheesecake a few years back and has been a recurring addition to our Thanksgiving dinner ever since then…though baking cheesecakes can be/sound a bit intimidating with a few techniques mentioned below it can be pretty easy to have success on your first attempt. In addition this is also a great way to…
width=”550″ height=”309″ /> So past few years I have been collecting seeds from my luxury pie pumpkins to plant the next year. Everything was going as planned, they sprouted on the grow box brought them outside when the temperature was right and planted them in the garden. They made a long vine and sprawled throughout my hard, then came the fruit… Instead of the typical nice small round baby…
alt=”” width=”425″ height=”286″ border=”0″ /> While going searching my logs I noticed the query in the topic. My first response, in my sarcastic mind was, “Uh red paint, maybe a red permanent marker?” After some more serious thought I did get some more helpful ideas. Don’t be greedy: I know it is hard when you want to get as many delicious tomatoes as possible and you let your plants…
src=”https://i0.wp.com/www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/IMG_4118.jpg?resize=500%2C371″ alt=”IMG_4118″ width=”500″ height=”371″ /> I am attempting to grow the best pepper plants I can indoors (grow box) so I started with jalapeno peppers. They grow relatively small 2-3 feet and require 2-3 gallon container for growing. While this is fine for an outdoor garden, though indoors I can only sacrifice 1 gallon container. This summer I grew several jalapeno plants which spent half of their life in…
alt=”001″ width=”525″ height=”394″ border=”0″ /> It is really easy to save tomato seeds is a little more difficult that other vegetables seeds, but with a little patience and the right technique you can save your seeds with very little effort. Step 1: Get the seeds. The easiest way to get to your seeds it do cut the tomato across the hemisphere as shown below. This will give you easy…