Notes from the Garden
Passive Watering
I haven't talked about this in connection with the calendar yet, but I'm physically disabled with several chronic conditions. Prior to becoming ill, I've always worked intensely physical jobs—farmhand, dog trainer, line cook, bicycle taxi, preschool [...]
2023 Spring Garden Write Up
Hi friends! It might look like I've been inactive online lately, but offline I feel like I've barely stopped moving for two months. It's been overall a slow spring here, but with occasional quick jumps in [...]
Flower Experiment 2023 Update #1
I took a whole bunch of seedling measurement last night, and even though it's barely a month in, I have some good data to share with you all. From my notes for Monday, April 3: Pincushion [...]
New Shipping Policies
We've been listening to you! This week we've improved our shipping software and options. What have we added? By popular request, there is now a First Class option to Canada--halving the shipping costs on a single [...]
Flower Experiments 2023
I'm excited to get going on some new moon-planting experiments this year, starting a little earlier and staying a little more organized. I'm not sure what outdoors experiments I might do over the summer—the weather's very [...]
Beans – A Delayed Conclusion
Welp. It turns out that starting a new business while learning modern website technology (the last time I did anything with a website at work, it was 2005!) and new accounting skills, plus a very late [...]
Hello, Beans!
For the past couple weeks, I've been conducting the inaugural Gardening by the Moon science experiment. Or rather, two concurrent experiments, using nearly identical methods but different varieties of beans and locations for planting. Maxx and [...]
