Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Lots of pumpkins from the gardens, so today's Sunday cooking was a pumpkin peanut soup.
We had lots of leftover puree so I made some pumpkin patties and flat bread. Good seasonal lunches this week 🎃
Soup recipe (I added fresh rosemary) and used my summer stock.
Soup recipe (I added fresh rosemary) and used my summer stock.
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Repurposing our fancification material leftover from the potluck to create a break space for our volunteers! It actually pretty warm. We're up to 4 volunteers/week now! Come be a part of your community and join us sometime. Open Volunteer days are Thursday-Saturdays 10-4; sign up here: http://ift.tt/2yM5ojF Or contact us to set up a volunteer day that works for you and your group!
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
I'm covered in straw and herb debris out the wazoo, but here's to bringing Community Roots full circle from forming a nonprofit to our first day of sales! Everything is more difficult when done with community service, sustainable methods, and democratic proceases, but we did it! Here's to smart growth done ethically!
Monday, October 23, 2017
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Thursday, October 19, 2017
We have signage. Community Roots is taking over! If you rent a growing plot or greenhouse growing bench, you can also have a mailbox/sign out front with your name or business on it! Interested in incubating a small garden market business, we can help! Contact us about how this innovative shared space can help you. CommunityRootsOhio@gmail.com
Still gleaning!
The garden plots may not look like much, but all the foxtail grass ferried a secret bounty to harvest, hiding it from animal (and human) theft!
Still enough good fruits that can be eaten and a ton of seeds! Yay for a possible future publicly shared seed library! We'll even be able to save seeds from every heirloom tomato variety we received from Skipping Stone Farms - except for one. Not sure we had any mortgage lifelter fruit.
Those weeds turned out to be a good thing and another way gardening does not have to be all or nothing, black and white, etc. Sometimes it can be a good thing to let the weeds have some space; may lower your yield a little, but barring any communicable pestilence those weeds might give something whereas with then you would have had nothing 😕😀
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
All survived the frost!
Temp went down as far as 36 F. All under the row cover went well. Although the cover on the liverworts (pictured right) blew off, so we'll have to affix that eventually.
All the amaranth, berries (gogi, rasp, and goose), euonymus, vinca, petunias, chard, sorrel, and sage did fine without cover.
https://theorypracticelandscaping-kfrye.blogspot.com/2017/10/forst-frost-advisory-floating-row.html
All the amaranth, berries (gogi, rasp, and goose), euonymus, vinca, petunias, chard, sorrel, and sage did fine without cover.
https://theorypracticelandscaping-kfrye.blogspot.com/2017/10/forst-frost-advisory-floating-row.html
Monday, October 16, 2017
Sunday, October 15, 2017
Autumn Chore: Grape Leaves Clean-Up
I love the wild grapevines. I train them up and around the old boiler pipes and greenhouse supports because they provide so much shade and water management options. The leaves make terrific dolmas, and the vines are great for crafts.
However, every autumn it's going to be a big deal when the leaves drop. We need to anticipate this b/c it requires a lot of cleanup otherwise the tables get buried and the floors become really slippery.
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Fan and Tube for Winter Ventilation
It took a while to be sure what that this was!
"During bright, sunny days in the winter, ventilation may be needed to keep temperatures at an acceptable level for good plant growth. The fan and tube system introduced several years ago has become popular throughout the industry for this purpose. It mixes the cold outside air with the warm greenhouse air before it reaches plant level."1
I decided there was nothing to lose in pulling this nasty thing down. Worse case scenario we have to purchase a new tube one day (assuming the louvers and fans are all replaced and run again, and the walls and roof should somehow be made useful).
1https://ag.umass.edu/greenhouse-floriculture/fact-sheets/ventilation-for-greenhouses
"During bright, sunny days in the winter, ventilation may be needed to keep temperatures at an acceptable level for good plant growth. The fan and tube system introduced several years ago has become popular throughout the industry for this purpose. It mixes the cold outside air with the warm greenhouse air before it reaches plant level."1
I toyed with the idea of leaving it up in hopes that it would run again, but with the damage already inflicted on the greenhouse, we are not holding any heat. Once the roof blew off last Spring, there was just no sense in holding out for returning this greenhouse to a former state: we're exposed directly to the outside through 20-25% of the roof, gaps where the "walls" are pulling off the supports, and entire windows and louvers missing. We also have no heat source; if a boiler still exists, it would be in the Fire & Iron building and all pipes between boiler ad buildings have been severed or corroded.
So with this old tube laying sloppily over pipes and supports, it trapped water, had some bad biofilms/bacteria growing, and often fell making it difficult to move or work.
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
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