Tag Archive for ‘Fertilizer’
SUMMER SOIL BLOCKING
Now that the first summer planting flush is over, it’s time to get started on the second round of planting. Folks often ask us why is our small garden so productive. One of the main reasons is we have successful succession plantings. When one crop goes out, another one comes in.
FROM FARM TO FORK
Good little article but there are some slight misstatements. 1.) We grow 99 percent of our PRODUCE not diet 2) We do buy supplement animal feed (grains pellets) oh, and our goal is “ZERO” food miles! Path to Freedom conserves water while cutting ‘food miles’ from Dervaes family’s carbon footprint By Carolyn Neuhausen PASADENA WEEKLY [...]
BACKYARD BARNYARD
Anaïs and Jordanne Dervaes give a video tour of the Pasadena homestead where they keep chickens, ducks, and goats (VIEW ONLINE VIDEO FEATURE running time 4:00 minutes) LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE ONLINE EXTRA By Wendy Witherspoon LAmag.com, October 19, 2009 If you’ve ever looked at your pet dog (especially after “cleaning up” the lawn) and wondered [...]
FRESH, LOCAL, ORGANIC
image courtesy of Elements kitchen weekly enewsletter Look what was in our email box today! “We Love Freshly Picked Dervaes Greens… We make special salads featuring them, always lightly dressed so their fresh flavors are enhanced. The unique blend of mesclun greens (which might include anything from baby celery leaves to baby arugula or mizuna [...]
ANOTHER REASON TO GROW CLOSER TO HOME
Eating Your Veggies: Not As Good For You? If the economy isn’t grim enough for you, just check out the February issue of the Journal of HortScience, which contains a report on the sorry state of American fruits and veggies. Apparently, produce in the U.S. not only tastes worse than it did in your grandparents’ [...]
GROWING TIPS
Thanks to Linda for inviting PTF to speak at the Pasadena Smith & Hawken store. We appreciate her enthusiasm and encouraging support. Also thank you to all the S&H staff there for a warm welcome. Power Point Highlights The presentation lasted over an hour. Here’s an overview of what Farmer D had to share about [...]
MIRACLE MAY
Listen to the rhythm of the falling … Oh listen to the falling rain Pitter patter pitter patter… It’s been steadily raining for hours overnight and is still raining this morning. What a blessing this amount of rain is such late in the season. I believe we are nearing over an inch, I’ll have to [...]
“FERTILIZER FREE”
A reader asks: I must admit to being a bit confused about your use of the term “NPK fertilizer” – I presume by that you are referring to artificially manufactured fertilizers? All fertilizers, including those we consider “natural” such as animal manure and compost, contain varying concentrations of Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K) [...]
