Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

 We got some chicken feed at BiMart.  Went early, so store would be near empty.  Everyone was socially distant and wore masks. They had some...

 Over the past week, I perused the "vegetable start" sections at a few local stores.  I brought home some starts for onions, s...

Chinese Chives, rejuvenation project Garlic Inchelium Red and others Cilantro, Yellow Potato Onion, and some iris starts  Have...

Multiplier Onions Kitchen Garden Over the past month, I put together 2 more raised beds.  That brings it to 10 of the 112 planned. ...

Multiplier Onions about to be planted. More Daffodils for the yard.  The Yellow Potato Onions are now planted for their winter ...

Kitchen garden, from the west  I cleaned up one raised bed.  There were some plant starts I no longer wanted.  I saved the row of Egy...

German Porcelain Garlic Inchelium Red Garlic  Two weeks ago I dug up the German Porcelain garlic.  Nice bulbs, not as big as last y...

I pulled the soil thermometer out of the soil.  The air temp outside was 50F. The temp of the soil was 60F inside the row cover tunnel. Th...

Planted some seeds in the first "Conastoga" bed. That includes spinach, icicicle radish, napa cabbage, bak choy, seeds from gar...

These are the onion and garlic raised beds. They look vulnerable to freezing. I am reminding myself that I think that every year and they ...

No pics today. Today I built raised bed #3 . Filled about 3/4 with soil/leaf compost mix. The top soil was muddy - not the best way to bu...

The German Porcelain garlic has grown rapidly. These were planted 9/27 . A few were visible last week. Most are 2 or 3 inches tall. So...

Finished the second raised bed. Similar to the first. Moving soil and mixing in compost, is hard work. Like the first raised bed, much of...

Half full. More trips around the area for mole hills. Several wheel barrows full. Piled in a layer of soil, then a layer of compost, th...