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Putting the Garden to Bed for Winter

It's Fall and things are finally winding down in the garden. Everything has been dug up and dealt with. Now it's time to start putting the garden to bed for winter. Here's what we've done so far this season with our garden harvests. Root crops are being stored in our cold room. The canning is almost finished for the season and we're happy to see jars full of home canned goodness on our … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Cover Crops/Green Manure, Fall, Garlic, Grow Your Own Vegetables

Plant Clover for the Bees!

Plant some clover for the bees! Instead of grass, go with clover and help the bees. Do you need to reseed the bare spots in your lawn? Have you got an area that's been cleared, leveled and now needs to be planted in grass? Why not plant clover for the bees instead of grass seed? Clover always looks nice and lush and you don't need to mow it as often. Heck, if you plant white clover, you … [Read more...]


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Using Buckwheat to Improve Your Garden

Buckwheat is a very fast growing grain. It has many different uses - you can harvest the grain, thresh it and then mill it. Turn it into some delicious buckwheat pancakes. Or feed it off to your livestock; poultry loves buckwheat. You can use it as a green manure in your garden beds, because it is great for aerating your soil. Buckwheat is a wonderful soil builder! And we need to build … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Cover Crops/Green ManureTagged: buckwheat, cover crop, green manure, soil improvement

Come Into Our Garden

Here, finally, are a few pictures of what is happening in the garden. I'm almost finished planting - just waiting for some hotter temperatures before planting some beans in the garden. On the far left is the Asparagus - we ended up having to put down black plastic in order to help keep the weeds down. On the left side of the gate is the Potato patch. I've planted some Fingerlings (also … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Cover Crops/Green Manure, Grow Your Own Vegetables

Tucking Your Yard in for Winter – Part 2 The Garden

During the Spring and Summer months, we were busy with planting seeds, transplanting seedlings, weeding, irrigating, weeding again, thinning, more weeding and finally harvesting vegetables and fruits. Our Vegetable and Berry Gardens have given us a fantastic harvest, even though the weather this year was mostly cool and quite rainy. Sure we had two or three weeks of Summer, but gorgeous … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Cover Crops/Green Manure, FallTagged: buckwheat, Soil

Garden Preparation and Tilling

Most of our main Garden is tilled! Over the last several days, Graham has manhandled our awful (but free!) rototiller thru all four sections of the Main Garden.   Here's the main vegetable garden. Can you tell that it is separated into four different garden areas? Two upper, two lower. We use a four year garden rotation. Note: These photos are from a few years ago. We now … [Read more...]


Filed Under: Cover Crops/Green Manure, Grow Your Own VegetablesTagged: Grow Vegetables, tilling

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