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 our soil … [Read more...]
Plant Clover for the Bees!
Do you need to reseed the bare spots in your lawn? Have you got an area that's been cleared, levelled and now needs to be planted in grass? Think about planting clover 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 don't even need to mow it at all if you don't want … [Read more...]
Putting the Garden to Bed
Here we are in mid October and things are finally winding down in the garden. The Garlic is planted, those beds are mulched with old hay and the tools are getting picked up. Half of the main garden has now been taken over by Garlic. If you want to learn more about how to grow and harvest Garlic, check out our 4 part series. Once the area was given a good end-of-year weeding, I … [Read more...]
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...]
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 hot … [Read more...]
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...]
