Farmer D Organics’ week-by-week planting guide is specific to zone 7b (Greater Atlanta, and surrounding cities). Click the chart page below for an enlarged view.
Category Archives: growing
We Make House Calls (Backyard Cultivators)
I joined Reese Baker (no relation to me) at a residential backyard garden recently where he was doing a bi-weekly service call with the Farmer D Organics’ Backyard Cultivators program. His hat protecting his tanned face from the mid-day sun, Reese harvested green beans and cucumbers, removed dead leaves, pruned tomatoes to encourage bigger fruit, [...]
Summer, and The Dreaming Is Easy (and Why It’s a Good Time for a Site Visit)
We pulled up in Farmer D’s truck to a lost corner for a site visit (where we look at a place and see what can be done there). I’m not just calling it that–that’s actually its name, Lost Corner Preserve. It’s located on a twenty-two acre family homestead preserved by the Trust for Public Land [...]
I Call Candied Mint! (Why I Love Mint)
Bring something to share? Bring something to share?! Speck’s words on yesterday’s Farmer D post about the Summer Solstice gathering next week at the Briarcliff store had me say out loud, right there in my home office (which overlooks my backyard garden), “I’ll tell you what I have to share–mint, mint, and more mint!” Yes, [...]
Planting Guide June 1-30
Farmer D Organics’ week-by-week planting guide is specific to zone 7b (Greater Atlanta, and surrounding cities). Click the chart page below for an enlarged view.
What’s Growing On at Farmer D – May 2012
As usual, spring has been a great season for us. The newest seed to sprout at here is Farmer D’s new biodynamic baby, Tilden Gray Joffe, a wonderful addition to the FDO family. D is a proud papa. Next, all of you made Mother’s Day at the garden center a grand success. If you missed [...]
Planting Guide May 15-30
Farmer D Organics’ week-by-week planting guide is specific to zone 7b (Greater Atlanta, and surrounding cities). Click the chart page below for an enlarged view.
Planting Guide April 15-30
Farmer D Organics’ week-by-week planting guide is specific to zone 7b (Greater Atlanta, and surrounding cities). Click the chart page below for an enlarged view.
Planting Guide April 01-15
Farmer D Organics’ week-by-week planting guide is specific to zone 7b (Greater Atlanta, and surrounding cities). Click the chart page below for an enlarged view.
Easy Guide to Sprouting using Mumm’s Sprouting Seeds
Every morning I roll out of bed, fire up my cast iron skillet, and cook up a fried egg sandwich. The star of the show is not the egg, the cheese, or even the Sriracha hot sauce. It’s the sprouts. My fascination with sprouts started when my mom fished some old unused sprouting screens out [...]
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