Post Punk Kitchen Forum

Just a mix from a hardware store. I think most of what you can see is oats and/or millet, and buckwheat. I'm thinking about digging it in and just doing a crop of broad beans over winter though so at least I get something out of it. I'm surprised anything is growing so well, the soil is so sandy and completely water repellant. Not to mention nothing has grown there for 20+ years and it's full of gravel.

Oh, and since then I've made two more little mantis friends. I found one in the kitchen cupboard and one in my bedroom, they're so cute!

oats and millet? are you serious? (i've got a cockatiel, those are two things i have on hand at all times.) wow i am so glad i asked!!!!

I don't think they do anything fancy, but they grow fast and will add organic matter to the soil. Other things you could try growing are sunflowers, mustard seeds, store bought beans (for added nitrogen) etc.

Just throw it all in and see what comes up! (And remember to dig it in before it goes to seed)

Baby broad bean.

I live in the frozen tundra of Northern NY, we just started our seeds this week! This is my first time starting from seed...I am perfectly prepared that we might end up buying all new plants, haha, but I hope it works out! My son is having a ball watching the plants grow. We have to go in and say good morning and good night to them.

i just put in seeds for brussels sprouts, two kinds of kale, chard, and spinach, and more asparagus. the brux, last kale, and asparagus last time came up but the last !#$)(*#$ grasshoppers ate them so i needed to create a screen cage for the seed flat and start again.
I also sowed the millet and some crummy peas i had in the resting beds and they're coming up nicely. i'm actually considering cutting and stir frying the pea greens, though.

FINALLY stuff is happening!


Clockwise: A purple bean, yellow pear tomato, bok choy sprouts, beets!

I'm not sure who's winning here. I have one spade left.



These forkers just do not want to go.

oh god, you're giving me flashbacks. I had to rip out centipede grass in the front yard and that type of long grass in the back. As well as these yams or whatever that do not come out. I didn't break any spades though!!!!

I ran out of room in the garden so I stuck a shelf to the side of the house...