Can you tell I got a new iPhone app?

He actually pulled his face off after this…

I’m mostly pulling weeds today since the ground is soft from all the rain, and it’s actually… well, don’t want to jinx it, but… s-u-n-n-y today.  Yeah.  I know.  Shhh.

This wasn’t a planned stop, so I didn’t bring the good camera.  The best I can do is a little iPhone iPhotoJournalism, to [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/06/03/its-only-june-and-its-already-sunny/feed/ 1 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/22/when-life-gives-you-eggs-make-frittata/ http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/22/when-life-gives-you-eggs-make-frittata/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 01:23:16 +0000 Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=1602

The farmers market season is getting rolling in Portland, and I took a trip up to the King market in Northeast.

It was a little sparse, but they had a lot of nice veggies starts and a little bit of early produce (ala leaves, asparagus, and potatoes).  They also had some lovely [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/22/when-life-gives-you-eggs-make-frittata/feed/ 2 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/18/controlling-leaf-miners/ http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/18/controlling-leaf-miners/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 05:55:04 +0000 Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=1597

There’s a few pests that I’ve not been able to generate a lot of Buddhist compassion for… the aphid, the weevil, and the leaf miner.  They’re all disgusting and deserve an eternity in the hell of boiling oil– at least until I’m able to remove the illusion of separation between myself and them.  [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/18/controlling-leaf-miners/feed/ 6 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/16/grafted-tomatoes/ http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/16/grafted-tomatoes/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 04:36:45 +0000 Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=1591

The veritable Lady Gaga, or potentially Charlie Sheen, of this garden season seems to be the grafted tomato.  You’d think it was something cooked up in a Monsanto lab in a test tube with all the hype about them.  I must admit that I hadn’t given the whole thing a lot of thought [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/16/grafted-tomatoes/feed/ 2 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/09/iurbanhayseed/ http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/09/iurbanhayseed/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 18:29:57 +0000 Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=1551

In my other life, I’m a techie guy.  I just enrolled in the Apple iOS Developer Program, which mostly only means that I can test my apps on an actual device instead of the simulator, and an app I was working on was to make use of GPS and the camera, neither of [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/09/iurbanhayseed/feed/ 1 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/08/second-crop-rhubarb-rhubarb-custard-pie/ http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/08/second-crop-rhubarb-rhubarb-custard-pie/#comments Sun, 08 May 2011 07:59:48 +0000 Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=1539

One of the few things I recall growing in my yard as a kid was this patch of rhubarb back on the northeastsouthwest corner.  Don’t know if it’s still there, but it seemed like a fixture over the years.  I used to love breaking off the stems and dipping them in sugar to [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/08/second-crop-rhubarb-rhubarb-custard-pie/feed/ 0 http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/07/growing-potatoes-repeated-hilling-is-dumb/ http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/07/growing-potatoes-repeated-hilling-is-dumb/#comments Sun, 08 May 2011 04:50:11 +0000 Rian http://www.urbanhayseed.com/?p=1534

One of my most popular posts, to this day, is this one about Growing Potatoes in Tires.  That was three years ago now.  I thought it might be worth revisiting this whole thing.  My opinion these days is that most of us are missing the point about this whole “hilling” thing.

Hilling potatoes [...]]]> http://www.urbanhayseed.com/2011/05/07/growing-potatoes-repeated-hilling-is-dumb/feed/ 0