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Good Greens
Healthy crops of Lettuce, Bok Choi, and the everpresent Spinach, create a nice mixture to harvest this morning.
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Planting Season 2025
A variety of things have interfered with the starting of a new planting season. Repairs following the damage to the greenhouse and planting beds from hurricane Beryl, some travel delays, and life in general. So this is a welcome start for both seedlings and some young plants. The plants include cabbage and lettuce and cucumber…
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Greenhouse Invasion
During a brief absence, these miniature squash invaded the greenhouse, and battled with the spinach for dominance 😉 It took a while to clean things up and they still remain hiding on the outside walls…
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A Cabbage Crop
We have begun to enjoy some cabbage from the small crop planted in the spring. With just natural growth, they are small but flavorful. Next crop we need to intersperse with something to reduce the natural pests.
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Malabar Spinach
Announcing the arrival of the Malabar variety of spinach to our Fawudd Farms greenhouse! This unique and versatile plant brings a fresh burst of flavor and nutrition to the farm. With its vibrant green leaves and succulent texture, Malabar spinach is a delightful addition to any dish. Known for its high levels of vitamins and…
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Passion Positioning
Unfortunately, the passion fruit trees got way too large, and had interwoven themselves in the shade knitting, and had begun to work their way in between the roof panels. Not good. They needed to be relocated to their originally intended destination along the front wall. In doing so, we needed to harvest the passion fruit…
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Navy Beans
As an experiment, we planted some Navy beams to see how they would develop in the greenhouse. They did not appear to flourish, but they did manage to use the Trellis and to produce a small crop.
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Lattice For Climbers
We had been looking for lattice for about six months and were told by the local lumber yard that they don’t carry it and have not seen it elsewhere. Well, never just ask one person !! It turns out that it was here all along, but the prior person did not know ! We are…
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Greenhouse H2O
The plans for getting water to the greenhouse evolved over time. The initial plan was to have rainwater barrels immediately behind the structure to capture water from the roof and feed into the sink area. This requires an elevated structure for the barrels to generate enough pressure, and a gutter system for the roof edges.…
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Filling Beds
The fill for the beds is roughly following the Hugekultur method. The bottom layer are branches, logs, and other pre-compost materials from the property. The middle layer is topsoil, and the final layer is natural organic compost. Each bed is filled one wheelbarrow at a time with major help from Anderson. It takes a couple…
