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Planting Seeds With Wulfgar

2/13/2012

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Wulfgar and Cord planting radish's.
Oh Man they were cute.  Well, Cord wasn't cute - he's way too manly -  but Wulfgar was.  On Happy Sunday we finished planting Cord's greenhouse. All of it - it was so fun.  Boys had to walk down the mountain to talk to us and that's how we ended up with Wulfgar.  
On Saturday we went down intending to plant and realized the whole place needed to be soaked down first.  So we watered it on Saturday and let it soak in until Sunday.  
After a liesurely morning, we escaped to the botttom of Cord's garden and into the warm, moist environment of the greenhouse.   I drove the car down loaded with seeds and stuff we needed.  I placed the seed in the middle of the greenhouse - the center bed was already planted with carrots, so we could reach them from all around.  The beds make a large U shape so we just worked our way around.  As we went Wulfgar got more and more interested and Cord started handing him seeds to plant with him.  He also fetched a pile of bottomless milk jugs to double cover some warm loving plants.  
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Sculpted bed - ready to plant.
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Wulfgar watches Cord sculpt the bed.
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Cord's hilarious.
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Wulfgar definitely thinks Cord is hilarious.
We planted tomatoes from seed, as well as broccoli, chinese cabbage, bok choy, beets, spinach, mixed greens, nasturtiums, claytonia, chard, turnips, radish's, and leek plants.  We match the warm lovers near the warmth - and let the cool lovers be near the glass.  This will all change for summer but for now, there are plenty of micro-climates within the greenhouse to work with.
We learned to plant the tomatoes from seed when they sprouted last year in January - from compost added to the soil.  
We added the jugs for a little extra warmth and moisture.  It took us a few hours, then we went back home and relaxed.  It felt so good to get the whole thing planted.  
As always, I love to hang out with Cord but on this day we had our 9 year old, having fun and planting seeds like it's in his blood, so it was even better.
Oh, and if you are wondering - we love Verbascum (Mullein) so much we let them grow wherever we want - we're not scared.  It's an amazing plant - and on my useful plant list.  
We will show you growth as it comes - before you know it we will have our wall of tomatoes again.
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Cord using saved seeds, direct seeding tomatoes - under jugs.
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    Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth.  She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds.  She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman.  Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner.  At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.    

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