This year I am trying something different for my seedlings. I had to resort to using my own recipe for organic germinating soil. It seems like organic products are really hard to keep in constant supply. Vendors are always switching soil and fertilizers every year. It becomes really difficult to get familiar with how plants react to a specific soil and how a new fertilizer behaves in the field and in pots. After I was told they were no longer carrying my familiar soil that I worked on figuring out last year, I decided to come up with a recipe that I could duplicate each year on my own. 1 part peat moss, 1 part compost, 2 parts perlite, 0.5 parts composted cow manure. It took me a couple of iterations and tweaking before the seedlings liked it. But I think I've got a good mix that I can work with. Besides it winds up being cheaper than what I would have paid. Now I wish I could do the same for the fertilizer.
Other things I learned from last season:
Never use wild radish as a cover crop,
Coyotes eat watermelons, and pumpkins,
Plant virus prone tomatoes on the inside of a green house and resistant ones on the outside,
Using plastic mulch might be a game changer,
Sometimes lost harvest knives turn up in weird places,
Chicken feather loss can be unexplained and be really slow to grow back.
A rabbit ate our seedlings early on.
Potting up more rosemary.
Covercrops for soil health.
Our sweet potato bed.
One plant!
Nate sneaking up with a camera.
