We moved into our place in late December, 2008. In January we raced to get in vegetable beds. I used one of those home soil test kits to determine what we needed to do to the soil. According to the tests our soils were slightly acidic but completely deficient in all macro-nutrients. Ok, I’ll buy…
August has really been a good ramp up. We’ve been extra busy harvesting and planting our fall crops. Our totals have more than doubled from July and they’ll just keep going up for the month of September. The beginning of the month we were harvesting by the basket. By the end of the month we…
Photo by Jess Watson Recently we were featured in an article along with Esperanza of Pluck and Feather in Edible East Bay, a quarterly publication about the foods of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Yeah, I know, we’re in Solano County but we have a similar demographic to Oakland and we support many of Oakland’s…
Every gardener has a weed that they curse at. For me it used to be Bermuda grass. I hated it. Our last house had a backyard covered with the stuff. If you don’t pull it all up, any little bit would grow and spread like wildfire. But we were able to control it to a…
The colors are changing. The dark bright greens are lightening with more yellow in them. The corn’s lower leaves are drying out as cobs swell. The dried beans are coming to their end. We will harvest a lot of them and they’ll probably get their second wind. The “weed” area is browning. Next month’s shot…
Our female dog spazzing out with the sprinkler No, I’m not going to talk about my nutso dog. Instead I’m going to share my experience at the Oakland Urban Ag meeting last night. I’m not going to be nice for once and I’m definitely going to call shit out, so consider yourself warned. And for…
With the vast majority of Americans eating meat, sometimes you have to wonder why this statement is controversial. But it is. For some Americans, a very small minority of Americans, meat to them is akin to murder. They are incredibly loud. Any news article I read there’s always the same ones commenting about how people…
Here is our updated garden photo. The corn is about 12′ tall and some of the other stuff has grown in more. Our lemon tree surprised me this week. It’s always been about 4′ tall. This week while walking by it Tom pointed it out. I looked over and all of a sudden it was…
Once a month I’ll be answering your questions! Ask them in an email (if you want to be anonymous just say so) or just leave a comment – I’ll find them and answer them the best I can. So here is one I found in our comments that I haven’t had a chance to answer…until…
I’ve been feeling unorganized with the blog lately. We used to have a pretty well defined schedule but as time wore on the schedule disappeared and I started to feel like I was flailing through posts. So last night I sat down and forced myself to get organized and create a new schedule for posts. Wednesdays,…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
