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Learn about the importance of growing cover crops in your food gardens.

We use cover crops as often as we can in our gardens. Some cover crops are used as green manure which means we dig these crops under to improve our soil.

Find out how to improve poor soil, amend your garden dirt and keep growing better and better garden harvests.

Putting the Garden to Bed for Winter

By Annie

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

Growing Clover Instead of Grass

By Annie

Growing Clover instead of grass benefits the bees! Plus, it's a low maintenance lawn. Growing a Clover Yard Instead of Grass Lawns 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 think about growing clover instead of a traditional grass lawn? Planted clover always looks nice and lush and you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cover Crops/Green Manure

How to Grow Buckwheat

By Annie

If you've ever wondered How to Grow Buckwheat to improve your crop rotations, this post contains all the information you could need to get started! Learn how to grow it, when and where, and the best way to use it in your vegetable garden or yard. Buckwheat is a fast growing plant you can easily grow from seed. It has all kinds of uses and it is even used to improve your garden soil. If you have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cover Crops/Green Manure Tagged With: buckwheat, cover crop, green manure, soil improvement

Getting the Yard Ready for Winter – Part 2 The Garden

By Annie

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, Fall Tagged With: buckwheat, Soil

Garden Preparation and Tilling

By Annie

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 Vegetables Tagged With: Grow Vegetables, tilling

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