Our first farmers market

White Russian kale, green Curley kale, peas, mixed lettuce and
Cilantro. We had to go back to the farm on the boat to get more kale.

Weeding the Eliot Coleman Way

We use tools designed by Eliot Coleman for weeding. The tool is a
sharp hoe with a long handle that is designed to cut just below the
soil level using a motion that keeps the operator standing upright,
rather than bent over like the traditional hoe.

The beauty of order...

Eliot Coleman's layout is really a beautiful thing. While we won't say weeding is our favorite past time, but we can say that it is certainly manageable with this system... and the results produce a beautiful order to the garden.

One week more means less...

We left some of the pickling cucumbers in the greenhouse until June because the instructions said to transplant after June 1.

Guess what? They were wrong.

The small plant is the one with the extra week in the greenhouse... the big healthy one we transplanted at the end of May and it is doing much better. My hand is there to give some perspective.