Got Organic Milk?

 Hip English Dairy Farmers in a cute rap video!



That just cracks me up!

Go Grab Your Leaves and Mulch when the sun comes out, or wait for your neighbors to rake them up and grab them! Mulch all your tender plants and in between your leeks! Cliff Mass is predicting a La Nina (cold and wet, with lots of chances for snow in town) this year. Great for Snowboarding, but less good for eating fresh greens from your yard!

I can build a small hoop house (3' wide x 5' high) to help protect your greens from the frost all Winter for less than $60! Salads in January are nice...

Fall Veggie Garden Prep Special!

We are now getting to the point where it is almost too late to plant veggies unless you have already bought the plants... So, if you want to make a new garden bed, the easiest way now is to sheet mulch and wait for spring... If you have a place in the garden that you think is a good place for your garden next spring, I can come and tell you what/when to do it, or you can have me out and I will do it for you- If you have leaves in your yard start collecting now!!

This is a great video from the originators of the Backyard Farm concept explaining why they think it is important to grow your own vegetables.

By By Tomatoes!

I finally gave up on my tomatoes... the ones that were ripe were full of slug holes, and the others were just getting waterlogged! Now of course there is sunshine. But I found that my strawberries have completely taken over the area! Yay, free food!  I am probably going to move them to underneath the cherry tree in the "fruit corner" and plant lettuces and cilantro, etc. I am finally also going to make myself a new hoophouse for the winter. I have lots of kale and chard and more volunteers at the community garden, so I am going to make sure it doesn't freeze in the Seattle cold winter that has been predicted (http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/).  My late planted (August) purple pole beans are finally growing into a pretty vine with a few beans on it. The celery is doing well, but I pulled the soil around it to try to blanch it for the next few weeks... I pulled all but the flowering leeks, and sauted some with chanterelles Marc brought home from the mountains! Leftovers were rolled into a nori for Chanterelle Sushi, Yum.

Grow Cook Eat Videos from my friend Willi!

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That is my friend Willi in her new cooking show Grow Cook Eat. In the kitchen with her husband Jon, and in the garden explaining how to plant and harvest the plants to optimize a small urban yard. She was a board member for Seattle Tilth and the Northwest Editor for Organic Gardening for years, and is currently working on a book called Grow Cook Eat. She a great resource for all things in the urban vegetable garden. She usually is a presenter at the NW Garden Show in February and is a regular on KUOW's Greendays Gardening Panel She has her own award winning website called Diggin Food, and she and her husband just opened a cool furniture store in Portland featuring custom, hand built furniture that is affordable. It is calledPerch, and it is in the Pearl District in Portland.  Check it out.

peace-
Jayne