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.

11/16/2025

Zucchini Hunting Season 2025

Why do I collect so many leaves you ask? Scroll through pictures and see why!
11/09/2025

Why do I collect so many leaves you ask?

Scroll through pictures and see why!

Garlic planting day!
11/08/2025

Garlic planting day!

Pressure canning pumpkin today! This will be used later in the season for pumpkin soup, pumpkin bread, pumpkin puree, et...
11/02/2025

Pressure canning pumpkin today!

This will be used later in the season for pumpkin soup, pumpkin bread, pumpkin puree, etc.

For shelf stable pumpkin you have to pressure can it in chunks to be used later.

For freeze stable you can roast and mash your puree and freeze in appropriate size portions.

If you don't have a pressure canner yet I highly recommend you start looking into one. It's great for making a lot of food shelf stable.

Do you bag up your fallen maple leaves?I would happily come by and collect bagged maple leaves if you do! Please share ...
10/29/2025

Do you bag up your fallen maple leaves?
I would happily come by and collect bagged maple leaves if you do!

Please share with your neighbors!

Garden Talk is this Sunday from 1-3 at Ridgeline Brewing. We will be discussing all things melons!
10/24/2025

Garden Talk is this Sunday from 1-3 at Ridgeline Brewing.

We will be discussing all things melons!

It was pepper harvest time at the farm but we needed somewhere warm for them to finish maturing...my house it is! Pepper...
10/10/2025

It was pepper harvest time at the farm but we needed somewhere warm for them to finish maturing...my house it is!

Pepper season in Kitsap County tends to be late September through October. The hard part with that is we start to get a lot of rains and our night time temperatures start to drop below the 50° mark. Both of these factors are not good for peppers.

I brought these bins home where they can be warm and dry. I will check in them daily finding the ones that have ripened. Fingers crossed that most will. Usually if the pepper has started to change colors you can guarantee it will ripen. Whatever doesn't ripen won't be tossed just used for different purposes.

Glad I trusted the weather and then it followed through! I did a bunch of weeding over the weekend and prepared soil for...
10/02/2025

Glad I trusted the weather and then it followed through!

I did a bunch of weeding over the weekend and prepared soil for ground cover seeds.

On my main walking area I am using the no mow blend from and between my tower systems along the house I am using creeping thyme from

Happy October Everyone! The days are getting shorter and the temperatures are going down. If you have not ordered your g...
10/02/2025

Happy October Everyone!

The days are getting shorter and the temperatures are going down.

If you have not ordered your garlic yet you really need to get that done ASAP. You can also find seed garlic at your local nursery or buy from your farmers at the farmers market.

Anyone interested in a garlic braid?
09/30/2025

Anyone interested in a garlic braid?

Rain is coming it was time to harvest my storage tomatoes that I am trying to grow and hang for the winter. Here is the ...
09/28/2025

Rain is coming it was time to harvest my storage tomatoes that I am trying to grow and hang for the winter.

Here is the description from Uprising Seed Company.

Tomato, 'Piennolo Giallo'
(Lycopersicon esculentum) If you've ever seen pictures of rustic Italian kitchens with huge masses of tomatoes hanging by loops of twine above the counters, chances are you were looking at "Piennolo del Vesuvio." This world-famous tomato (this listing is for the yellow version, though there is a more common red one) is grown in the volcanic soils near Napoli on the shoulder of Vesuvius. The small oval fruits have a pointed ni**le at the blossom end, and their high dry content makes them perfect for long storage through the fall and winter. Harvested by the truss they are often hung in long twine loops as tomato 'ristras' ("piennolo" meaning "hanging" in Neapolitan dialect). Not quite as prolific as our other storage tomato, 'Annarita,' Piennolo (both red and yellow versions) compensates with a fantastic rich, sweet flavor that continues to concentrate over time. Our selection comes from friend and grower Hans Fama in southern California, who has been growing and promoting them for years and is typically able to store them for 6 months after harvest (up to 10 months in the best of years). We have become increasingly interested in this class of tomatoes known as "pomodoro d'inverno" in Italy. With some care both at harvest and in how they are stored, these types of tomatoes can provide fresh eating well after cold weather and frosts have ended the outdoor fresh tomato season. While canning can preserve the harvest for sauces and cooking, the novelty of fresh tomatoes in winter that haven't been shipped from a thousand miles away is a delight.
Indeterminate. 80-85 days. UO

Follow along and let's see how they do. I need to figure out where the best place in my house will be for storing long term.

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Bremerton, WA

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