Probably better fit for a pubski post, but what the heck.
The lacinato kale seeds just went into their starter egg cartons. Onion seeds should have gone in too by now, but the store was out and I'm not that together right now. Waiting in the wings are some corn, turnips, and beet seed packets. I'm also gonna chunk up a bunch of potatoes and plant them.
We went out and dug a few test patches to see what condition the soil was in : my parent's land used to be corn field and I was worried it would be shit: the patch they've tried to plant certainly is. But we found a nice area (hoping it's 2-ish acres) with dark, loamy soil. We're starting out small this year, but if it goes well we should have lots of room to expand.
I was going to heavily photograph the progress of our garden (I've never had one of my own), but my camera was one of the victims of a bicycle crash I had last week. I'm kinda fuzzy how it happened: I remember taking off when the light turned green, reaching down to shift, feeling the bike start to shimmy, and then falling. My helmet and backpack absorbed a lot of the impact (I got a noice concussion and a few inches of road rash on my elbow), but when I landed on my backpack I seem to have managed to score a hit to where the camera was. Bonked the body and the lens. I'm glad I was wearing the bag, though: looking at the holes worn into it, it looks like the frame held my weight and kept me aloft while I slid on it instead of my side.
Not sure what condition the bike is in yet. I'm gonna replace the handle bars for sure. Something just tells me I shouldn't trust them anymore. I'll park it and ride my Raleigh Sports for a while until I feel like striping it down and checking the frame. Or like paying the shop to do it for me. I doubt I'll ride anything this week anyways: give my noodle time to heal before I subject it to brick streets by bike.
a few thoughts in no particular order - "2-ish acres" isn't a garden, it's a goddamn farm - you start a lot more shit from seed than I dare to. I used kale starts and onion starts. corn, turnips and beets totally from seed. If you tell me you start tomatoes from seed I shall be cross. - take the camera into a repair shop. at my buddy's work someone put a d810 with a 300mm on a tripod without balancing anything and it hit so hard on the concrete it literally ripped the lens mount out of the body. $300, 10 days from Nikon. - I hate road bikes. They always feel like they're about to shimmy themselves to oblivion. This is probably why I pounded 3k miles on a hybrid last year. And if you're riding on brick... I mean, I like big, dumb, wide handlebars.
That'd be a nice thing to aspire to in a few years... right now it just means we have room to expand the plot if we sprout too many things. My wife has a bit of a green thumb, and I'm a bit of a cranky frugal bastard. Plus, we're both really looking forward to having a garden and were ready to go. We did start some tomatoes last year, but didn't have a place to put them. We gave them to her parents, but they'd already planted the spare bed with wildflowers for their bees by that point. I think the tomatoes died on a table. I was going to give up on it (I'd already started window shopping used fujifilms, to be honest), but Steph has opened up a repair thingy with Canon. I'm still not optimistic though: The lens is bound up, the view finder's info display at the bottom is fucky, the sensor gives no ouput, and the sd card reader doesn't work. I was on my touring bike, which I usually ride because of how stable it is, especially with a load on the back like I had at the time. I wiped out near to home on an asphalt road, the brick roads come into play about a mile away from where I was. I agree though. If this frame is dead, I've got a pretty good idea what I'll be building up to fill the shoes. - "2-ish acres" isn't a garden, it's a goddamn farm
- you start a lot more shit from seed than I dare to. I used kale starts and onion starts. corn, turnips and beets totally from seed. If you tell me you start tomatoes from seed I shall be cross.
- take the camera into a repair shop. at my buddy's work someone put a d810 with a 300mm on a tripod without balancing anything and it hit so hard on the concrete it literally ripped the lens mount out of the body. $300, 10 days from Nikon.
- I hate road bikes. They always feel like they're about to shimmy themselves to oblivion. This is probably why I pounded 3k miles on a hybrid last year. And if you're riding on brick... I mean, I like big, dumb, wide handlebars.
I hate road bikes
My tomatoes I started from seed last year did amazing, my raised bed looked more like a bush with all of them in there. I ended up giving a bunch away because I planted enough with the assumption not all would actually grow, but I got multiple plants out of single pods. I'm going to miss gardening this year.
Cool, Ive had good luck with direct seeding kale in seattle, not so much on the onions (starts work fine though, harvested half a dozen leeks last year (out of a dozen planted). Your acrage is more of a farm but if you are only keeping a small garden i recommend seedsnow.com at 99c per a small seed packet it cant be beat. I always run out of room for starts before I run out of seed, on direct sow not so much due to waste and inaccuracy.The lacinato kale seeds just went into their starter egg cartons. Onion seeds should have gone in too by now, but the store was out and I'm not that together right now. Waiting in the wings are some corn, turnips, and beet seed packets. I'm also gonna chunk up a bunch of potatoes and plant them.