Dr. AlexOct 16, 20201 min readThriving and smelling vaguely of cat peeMy parents are convinced that basil smells like cat pee. I just smell basil, thank goodness. This is the water propagated cutting from...
Dr. AlexOct 16, 20201 min readTiny Tims and lil' PepsSome of the Tiny Tim tomatoes and baby peppers in front of the murder shack.
Dr. AlexOct 16, 20201 min readHiding in the shadowsBeen a bit so I've quite a backlog, will probably just post these with tidbits until I catch up.
Dr. AlexAug 6, 20201 min readEggplant sistersFrom these two, I don't sense a despot. The miniEggs I think are sort of spiteful under the dirt though. One of them is tinier than the...
Dr. AlexJul 30, 20201 min readBack from struggles with my footI've been out of commission for a bit getting one of my big toes tended to, and I'm happy to now say, I still have a toe! Yaaaay. Here is...
Dr. AlexJul 16, 20201 min readPrincesses over the sinkThe green onions, the mini eggplants and the mini melon are sitting on a window sill over our kitchen sink. I like to think they are...
Dr. AlexJul 16, 20201 min readCall the food policePips hates me. I know this, because he grows hot peppers and makes his own hot sauce. I'm a wuss about spice, not in a Dune way, but in...
Dr. AlexJul 4, 20201 min readFound a nursery!Had the pleasure of visiting the Summer Winds Nursery in Palo Alto today. Beautiful plants and very friendly staff. Maybe too friendly....
Dr. AlexJul 4, 20201 min readPeas, second cuttingSo the peas are no joke. When I cut them for snacking last time, I left their first leaves, hoping they could regrow a little. They...
Dr. AlexJul 4, 20201 min readThe peas are alive with the sound of musicThe peas! I put them on top of the washer/dryer and they went crazy in the sun room. This is a couple days before harvest, and looks...
Dr. AlexJul 4, 20201 min readThe Reign of Sinkmann, the TML Saga continuesFloat Boi, as theorized, wasn't viable. Long live Sinkmann! Oddly, another thing has begun to grow beside Sinkmann. It doesn't have waxy...
Dr. AlexJul 4, 20201 min readThese peas go on when I close my eyesHeart lyrics aside, these peas were aggressive growers! I still saw the issue of having planted the seeds a bit late, you can see roots...
Dr. AlexJun 26, 20201 min readMicrogreens: an obsession These are Dunn peas that I tried starting in water and transferring to a to-go container with dirt in it. I waited way too long with the...
Dr. AlexJun 18, 20201 min readGoodbye Leoric, VecnaGarlic down, I repeat, garlic down! Sadly both Leoric and Vecna, my garlic cloves, seem to have little white nematodes or worms. I knew...
Dr. AlexJun 18, 20201 min readMicrogreens and meI admit it, quarantine has exponentially increased my interest in gardening and eating things we grow. One of the things I have been...
Dr. AlexJun 16, 20201 min readFirst relief shift!Huzzah! 6/14/2020 I did my first ever ECC relief shift as a veterinarian. Man was it scary! I have some ideas going forward, like maybe...
Dr. AlexJun 13, 20201 min readVeggie tales in the sun roomJust some itty bitties in the sun room. Two bantam sweet corns flanked by Tiny Tim tomatoes in various states of tiny.
Dr. AlexJun 11, 20201 min readBantam Sweet CornDay 4 (planted Day 0) and the corn is off to the races! This dude popped up so swift it popped the lid on the Burpee, what a champ. These...
Dr. AlexJun 11, 20201 min readChez Hicks-Nelson roster of seedsI'll give little FAQs about each one later, but these are the varieties I got from Etsy and stuff we had around the house: Golden Bantam...
Dr. AlexJun 10, 20201 min readMooma is weird about our BurpeeThis is a Burpee self-watering 72 cell seed starting system. Do you see all the little brown circles? Those are dehydrated pucks of...