It’s raining cats anddogs here in la again.,, lots of rain this year! The farm is loving it though so that’s worth the coldness I guess…my farm duties today will Bethesda indoor type as I might melt if I get wet.. Muchlike the wicked witch. Except for the wicked part. And the witch part. I suppose half of the gardening game is preparing for what you Re gonna want to plant a few months in advance. So since springtime is quickly approaching it’s time to get seedlings started and ready for planting out in a month or two. I try to grow eeryrhing from seed rather than buying plants since it’s waAay cheaper. Pre grown plants work greAt I think for something u might only have one of but when it comes to growing rows of the same thing for eating .. Gotta go with seeds!! We go thru a ton of kale in smoothies and juicing so I’m planting even more this year. Last year we had more chicory than we needed so I’m gonna pull some of that out when it comes time and uset for kale instead … Just waiting on the baby kales to be ready to go out! I have about 70 kale seedlings started now so that should be a good start !!!
I have way betterucl with my plants if I start them inside and let them mature a month or two before gettin transplanted. Otherwise they are very vulnerable to garden pests and they never make it… The kale gets taken down by cabbage moths and slugs….. The lettuce gets eaten by earwigs, etc… The larger seedlings are Far stronger protecting themselves against such thievery.. Of course, everything planted on the new fertile soil was far stronger this last year as well. I have a bunch of kale and lettuce ready to transplant this week once the rain stops. So iguess I’ll be getting a little dirty finally. It’s been pretty slow on the farm lately… Looking forward to spring!! Although I’m already behind on my spring seedling planting!!! Gotta get some tomato cucmber and zucchinis started so they are nice and strong once mid march April rolls around. This will be my first time starting tomatoes fromseed cross yur fingers!!! Gonna try seven different types of cucmber seeds I just scored from a gardening friend as well as four types of zucchini!! I’m also gonna have an entire bed of purslane this year.
Purslane is natures wonder plant…. More on that another time…
Looks like it stopped raining so going out to check my rain buckets!!! Only the craziest of us catch rain for future use I guess… But I find it so strange how in LA there is always a ‘water shortage’ yet the city sends all of this rain water down the drain to the ocean… Hmmmm waste the water we r given from nature and then pipe more in from 2 states over …??? Weird weird weird. Plus rain water is naturally cleanr and dechloronated just how the plants want it!!! I have any container I could find bigger than a coffee cup out in the yard catching rain!!! And I was tempted to put out the coffee cups too. All the buckets are full and precious water is being lost aaaahhhh!!!! Some day I hope to add rain gutters to the house and catch every drop of rain on an array of 55 gallon tanks!!! Maybe I can catch a whole years worth of watering durinthe rainy season ???? I bet I have at least the next 2 months worth between all the little buckets, jugs, andbottles out there now. Woohoo !!! Free water!!
Ok everybody have a great weekend!! Remeber to start your seedlings soon!! I’m off to build a new effects pedal board based around the line6 m13 rig I’m now using. So far I am very pleased with it. I’m just gonna add another tuner to the chain so I can check tuning in realtime during a song without muting and adding a fultone fulldrive2 for my main distortion. I’ll post picks when it’s complete !!
Ps this post has been written sloppily on my Phone while running on my eliptical machine, so I take even less responsibilty than usual for the shoddy spelling and general typos…..!!!!!
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