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Published On: Sep 08, 2007 11:32 PM
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Published On: Sep 08, 2007 11:32 PM
Well, I did it
After much hand wringing, I ordered most of our
seeds, etc. fro this year. I'm going to pick up sterile potting soil, seed
potatoes, onion sets, and sweet potato slips at the feed store when they come
in. I spent about $125 (three 25 dollars off coupons for the three catalogs
except Johnny's) and included there were mostly longer term purchases: four new
row covers, a 2' soil block maker, 20 asparagus crowns to expand the asparagus
bed now that I'm *relatively* confident of its permanent location, and 75
strawberry plants. We didn't buy much seed at all, I'm trying to use all of the
stuff we bought last year first!
From Henry Fields: Jacob's Cattle beans, spaghetti squash, 2 oz mesclun seed, easter egg radishes, and 20 asparagus crowns.
From Gurney's (same company, diff name): soil innoculant, sweet banana peppers, medania spinach 'cuz it's supposedly more heat tolerant then the Bloomsdale I'm also putting in, snap peas, more bright lights chard, 75 Honeoye strawberries, Mr Stripey tomatoes.
From Garden's Alive: 4 new 25 ft. row covers.
From Johnny's: a pack of chiogga beets, 8 ball zuchinni, Zephre squash (the yellow ones with the green tip on the end), orient express eggplant, some purple bush beans, and the soil block maker.
I'm pretty sure I'll order a few packs of Dragon Langerie beans from Pinetree - it's a pain to order from yet another catalog, but I can't find them anywhere else and they do wonderfully here, and look gorgeous too. I'd like to sell them at market so we'll see. So that's the first farm expense of the new year - hopefully we'll break even, and if I plan this right, we may even make a little bit of profit - dare to dream, right ;) This year I'm aiming to make enough to get us through the summer when I'm not teaching without using our savings...make 3000 or so. That's 230 of profit every week. We'll see.
From Henry Fields: Jacob's Cattle beans, spaghetti squash, 2 oz mesclun seed, easter egg radishes, and 20 asparagus crowns.
From Gurney's (same company, diff name): soil innoculant, sweet banana peppers, medania spinach 'cuz it's supposedly more heat tolerant then the Bloomsdale I'm also putting in, snap peas, more bright lights chard, 75 Honeoye strawberries, Mr Stripey tomatoes.
From Garden's Alive: 4 new 25 ft. row covers.
From Johnny's: a pack of chiogga beets, 8 ball zuchinni, Zephre squash (the yellow ones with the green tip on the end), orient express eggplant, some purple bush beans, and the soil block maker.
I'm pretty sure I'll order a few packs of Dragon Langerie beans from Pinetree - it's a pain to order from yet another catalog, but I can't find them anywhere else and they do wonderfully here, and look gorgeous too. I'd like to sell them at market so we'll see. So that's the first farm expense of the new year - hopefully we'll break even, and if I plan this right, we may even make a little bit of profit - dare to dream, right ;) This year I'm aiming to make enough to get us through the summer when I'm not teaching without using our savings...make 3000 or so. That's 230 of profit every week. We'll see.
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Posted: Sat - January 28, 2006 at 11:50 PM