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I voted on One Seed Chicago a while back. From their website:
Each year One Seed Chicago selects one plant to be the focus of a season-long celebration. Imagine thousands of the same vegetable or flower linking community gardens, yards and window sills across the City! As One Book, One Chicago is to reading, One Seed [...]
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Friday was a big day for the tomato seedlings. April 25 marks the average last frost for the Chicagoland area. Normally, this is not the day you jump out and plant delicate plants in the ground. Looking at the weather over the next 10 days, we are looking for abnormally warm days and lots of [...]
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I think people forget why April showers bring May flowers. This weekend was a great example — Saturday was a great day to work in the garden. Since then, we’ve had 2 great days of rain — .9 inches on Sunday and .16 on Monday. That’s a full inch of rain. With freshly planted seeds [...]
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It was a big weekend for the farm — we’re about 10 days away from the last frost of the season. The long time Chicago native would recognize that a 70 degree weekend does not mean we won’t have one more snow ahead of us (I hear Tuesday).
In the ground on Friday went Carrots. This [...]
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It’s a happy Friday when I’m farming.
I am on hiatus from my real job today (i.e. vacation day) to enjoy the good weather and proper timing to plant carrots, swiss chard, and some early growing herbs.
Look for many pictures and more background on what is going in the ground this weekend. I’m off to dig!
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FarmerJay.com reader Alexander Roman encountered an issue many of us face — he planted his seeds indoors too soon.
This is my fourth year urban farming and while I might make it look good today, I’ve definitely had a fair bit of trail and error along the way. Living in Chicago, the growing season isn’t long [...]
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Based upon my complaints yesterday, mother nature listened and we received 1/3 inch of rain yesterday.
This picture was taken this morning and shows one of the square foot gardening plots moist after a good days rain (and the Cubs still got their game in — two wins!).
As I described yesterday, I’m trying square foot gardening [...]
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A new concept this year in at the Farm is Square Foot Gardening.
If you haven’t look to the far right column, you’ll notice that I farm 200 square feet including walking space around the plots. There are 8 plots in on the farm and normally I grow in short rows. The picture to the right [...]
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It’s the second day of lettuce planting — you’d think I would have an acre of lettuce, but it’s just about 15 square feet. Yesterday, I planted European Mesclun Salad. Today it is another mix from Baker Creek Farms – Rocky Top Lettuce Salad.
Rocky Top is probably the least descriptive seed I’ve bought. From Baker [...]
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More seeds went in the ground today and more tomorrow. Today I planted a lettuce mix.
As a home farmer, growing single types of lettuce can get boring. The fun of growing at home is growing a number of varieties that you wouldn’t necessarily buy for yourself. This year, I’m planting two mixes of lettuces [...]
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