Even though medical and recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado you have to have lots of licenses to grow it. I don't know that I would. There are a lot of growing conditions it needs. There is also a risk of some type of mold without proper airation. I saw on the news this morning, Colorado...
After not being able to free range for a couple of weeks due to snow, cold and work schedules, the girls got some outside time this weekend. After they devoured all the wild bird seed they could find, they attention turned to the straw mulch over the strawberries and garlic. Now this is the...
After a couple of years of poor germination of pansy and viola seeds, I decided to start with new starter cells and new seed. The back of the seed packets said to chill for 24 hours prior to planting. My old seed packets didn't. I figured what did I have to lose. So I put them in the...
I do use the red tomato mulch on my Earth Boxes, but not with the tomatoes out in the raised beds. I often get 2 growing seasons out of it. As for production or size, some years the Earth Boxes do better and some years the beds do better. I have yet to figure out why. I have to use something...
This weekend I'm going to plant 128 viola/pansy seeds in my sheltered basement. They will have a nice warm heat mat and a condo on the grow cart. 2014 here I come.
While I know that those of you in the Midwest and Eastern part of the United States are extremely weary of snow, here on the Front Range of the Rockies it has been dry. After all the flooding rains in August and September, the moisture was turned off essentially. We've had a few nuisance snow...