TOMATOES
TOMATOES Who doesn’t love homegrown tomatoes? I think most of us do, and I’d say they are my favorite thing to grow. Every time I buy a tomato from the gr ...
COVER CROPS
COVER CROPS GREENHOUSE COVER CROPS Below I'll write about our outdoor cover crops, but since our greenhouse cover crops have been the most helpful, I will start here. I have had some great success with cover crops in the greenhouse, and I be ...
SEED STARTING IN SOIL BLOCKS
SEED STARTING WITH SOIL BLOCKSStarting seedlings indoors is my go-to process for almost everything that I grow in the garden and greenhouse. For the short season here in our high altitude location, this is especially important. It allows a head start ...
GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION
In the planning stages of building our house here we had always thought we would eventually build a greenhouse. At our former location in Wellington we had a small, non-heated greenhouse, which provided us with cold-tolerant things like spinach, kale ...
GROWING FOOD IN THE GREENHOUSE
GROWING FOOD IN THE GREENHOUSE November 7, 2019The greenhouse at Good News Ranch has kept us supplied with year-round vegetables since 2017. During our winters the greenhouse provides us with lettuce, spinach, chard, bok choy, broccoli, caulif ...
LATE AUGUST PROGRESS: 2017
It's time to update the progress in the garden, which I have been putting off because: I’m too busy working in the garden to spend time writing, and choosing & editing photos. I’ve thought that what anyone wants to see is results. Results ...