Urban Gnomestead

Urban Gnomestead A firm believer that everyone should be growing some of their food.

I am a local garden consultant in my spare time and a full time farmer at Roots Farm in Poulsbo, WA.

September is here and some cooler weather has set in but don't worry this is the best month of summer for the PNW. It's ...
09/01/2025

September is here and some cooler weather has set in but don't worry this is the best month of summer for the PNW. It's usually warm still but not heat wave hot and we start to get the cooler mornings.

Things to consider this month:
1) If you are wanting to grow lettuce you are going to need to put this planting under good frost protection. Examples would be a greenhouse, plastic hoop houses, agribon fleece cover, or even in the house with grow lights.
2) If you want to sow the herbs know that you won't get bulb fennel you will only get the greens and you won't get dill seed only the greens. Both of these will die off with the frost. Cilantro and parsley tend to be a bit more frosting tolerant.

September is also a great time to buy your GARLIC, ASPARAGUS, PERENNIAL FLOWERS, FRUIT TREE AND BUSHES. Fall planting ensures a better establishment for spring.

Goldenrod is starting to bloom, a true sign that fall is on the way.
08/31/2025

Goldenrod is starting to bloom, a true sign that fall is on the way.

Possible bird control! I recently got a bunch of rubber snakes and placed them all around bushes that have berries matur...
08/21/2025

Possible bird control!

I recently got a bunch of rubber snakes and placed them all around bushes that have berries maturing and I wanted to see if it would naturally help keep the birds away.

So far it seems to be working! They haven't touched the blueberries that I left on the bush for the experiment. They haven't touched my ripe elderberries, and they are not pecking at my apples.

Might need to get more of these babies and even some bigger ones to see if it helps with raccoons. I might need to get a boa constrictor size for that. 🤣

Bokashi Buckets $20 cashI have 8 buckets for sale that I will be bringing to Ridgeline on Sunday for my garden talk. Thi...
08/20/2025

Bokashi Buckets $20 cash

I have 8 buckets for sale that I will be bringing to Ridgeline on Sunday for my garden talk.

This is a great at home rodent proof composting system of all your household food scraps.

Bokashi is the process of using microbes to start breaking down and fermenting your food waste. Fill your bucket daily and sprinkle on some bokashi bran. Once the bucket is completely full you let it sit for 3-4 weeks (depending on the temperature). After that time period you can bury the contents right into the garden beds and it will finish decomposing in the ground or put into a worm bin.

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LETTUCE gather together and put our HEADS together on how to grow BUTTER salad greens. 🤣Salad greens are a great cold to...
08/14/2025

LETTUCE gather together and put our HEADS together on how to grow BUTTER salad greens. 🤣

Salad greens are a great cold tolerant crop that should be in all gardens through the fall. We will even discuss how we can keep salad growing through the winter and into spring!

Floating away through summer
08/10/2025

Floating away through summer

Hello August! I don't know how it got here so quickly. It's like a zucchini if you blink for a second they are the size ...
08/03/2025

Hello August! I don't know how it got here so quickly. It's like a zucchini if you blink for a second they are the size of a baseball bat.

Our days are getting shorter, which I can already see in the morning sunrise. We have this last month to get a lot of plants started for your garden. Seeding will calm down after this month.

This month we still have plenty of seeds we can direct seed into the garden along with several of our overwintering crops that can still be seeded into a greenhouse for transplanting.

Try to enjoy this month though, it's going to feel super crazy with big harvests starting to happen and plants being seeded. Hopefully we can keep some of the warm weather so any of those larger tomatoes we like to grow will change color and ripen.

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