http://www.gardeningtrip.com Learn How To Do Gardening The Easy Way Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:00:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So the Tomatoes fared very well last night. Unfortunately I did not, I’ve been running fever for two days now. The foretasted low outside was 28 degrees F. As you can tell by the picture, the recorded low inside the low tunnel (which was inside the high tunnel) ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2010/02/%e2%80%a6and-the-results-of-the-freeze-plus-a-word-on-thermometers/ Time for the high tunnel to prove itself! The forecasted low is 28…I have low tunnels with row covers set up over the tomatoes inside the high tunnel. And I have thermometers everywhere. Keeping my fingers crossed! http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2010/02/freeze-tonight%e2%80%a6/ Seriously. I may be speaking too soon,  since I haven’t actually tasted one yet, but I just noticed a bunch of fruit-bodies all around the bag. Some are pretty big. So I opened the tops of the bags to let them do their thing. I started the bags on the 15th, methinks. So, ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2010/02/growing-oyster-mushrooms-on-straw-is-the-easiest-thing-i%e2%80%99ve-ever-done-in-my-life%e2%80%a6/ I spend the bulk of today transplanting the very first tomatoes I grew from seeds this year into the ground. Here’s the step by step process of what I did to give them a little boost and ensure they’ll have a happy, productive life. I hope? 1. I took a soil ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2010/02/how-i-plant-tomatoes-first-transplants-in-the-high-tunnel/ Plastic mulch rocks. It warms the soil, keeps weeds pretty much 100% down, protects your drip tape, etc. The only thing that sucks is it’s pretty much not reusable and isn’t excatly sustainable. Rick, on the previous post, mentioned biodegradable plastics made from cornstarch. For the fall season I will ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2010/02/roll-out-the-red-carpet-red-plastic-mulch-for-tomatoes/ It’s time to get the garden ready for spring. As you do not know, as I have never told you, I have quit growing in raised beds (except for the high tunnel). I used to do nearly all my gardening in raised 4′x20′ beds framed by scrap lumber, but I ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2010/01/the-raised-bed-question/ It’s been a little while since I’ve posted. Things have been very busy. We are working on building a new barn, and getting land cleared, aside from the day-to-day workings on the farm and all the seeds that need to be sown. Still, it’s quieter than the spring and summer, ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2010/01/muscadines-mushrooms-melons/ I can’t tell you how weird it feels to sow tomato seeds in December! These seedling will be for the high tunnel. My target for transplanting them into the ground is the beginning of February. The high tunnel is unheated, of course, so if any insanely cold weather comes after ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2009/12/first-heirloom-tomato-seedlings/ The first seedlings are starting to poke their heads out of the ground in the high tunnel!  I’ve also transplanted quite a few flats of stuff. Here’s a quick run-down of what’s there so far: Arugula came up quick. Unfortunately I sowed the seeds way too heavily, a common failing of ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2009/12/the-first-seedlings-in-the-high-tunnel/ So the tunnel is basically set up now. We pulled the plastic on Monday, and secured it Tuesday. Today we assembled the mechanism to roll the sides up, tilled the ground, ran some irrigation, and started planting! At least as much as I could before it got dark. Putting up the ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2009/11/setting-up-the-tunnel-part-2/