There’s noth­ing like an entire month of being snowed in under gray skies to pro­pel me out­side for seed start­ing after three sunny days in a row. I spent a happy hour dig­ging in dirt and here’s the ear­li­est of what is sown:

Red Ham­burger Onions (these prob­a­bly have a real name, I call them what I would use them for if I could grow them big­ger than scal­lion size before the chip­munks munch ‘em)
Aigu­ille Vert and Tavera Filet Beans — these are dar­ling lit­tle white “rice” beans and I am curi­ous to see what they look like.
Dwarf Grey Sugar Snap Peas
Three kinds of car­rots — baby and round car­rots, as well as Chante­nay.
Salad mix — I make this mix by hand from endive, three kinds of let­tuce, two kinds of arugula, and cut­ting cel­ery.
Cherry Belle radishes — when I was a kid in Hawaii, these took approx­i­mately 10 days from sow­ing to eat­able size. Vol­canic soil ftw.

I enjoyed some free time this week­end read­ing per­ma­cul­ture and farm­ing blogs so I thought I’d link to a few of my favourites:

Throw­back at Trap­per Creek - this has been in my RSS reader for years, it’s a long­time favourite.
Sub­sis­tence Pat­tern — a new find through the blog above.
The Walden Effect — I like it when peo­ple exper­i­ment and doc­u­ment their exper­i­men­ta­tions to share.