I always feel like a slacker when I see what you've managed 🤣😅
I'm hoping to have better luck with potatoes this year. I get 2 plantings,and between deer and voles I've only ever had enough to replant as seed. Katahdin is an excellent potato. I'm growing 2 Russian heirlooms, also a red,and a purple. Heirloom russet potatoes especially will show anyone the error of their ways of growing production ones. The taste is so vivid!
Rhubarb wine?? One wonders what it would take to bribe you into making Rhubarb strawberry preserves * drool*
I spent the last two days of the moon in cancer putting in my ready transplants ( I grew black Brandywine, Brandywine, and blk cherry tomatoes. Spanish Bull Nose sweet, 2 types of cukes which I failed to label! and a lsobthe bought ancho and jalapeño peppers. Put out my 3 colors if chard,dill and
Nasturtium I'd grown. )
Planted 2 winter melon types ( I just Now ate my last saved Tahitian Melon squash! It saved since Oct!) Pie pumpkin,whipporwill cow peas, amaranth, green beans and watermelon.
I only plant heirlooms now,as seed saving us critical.
Letting the buttercrunch go to seed...
And still...I feel like a slacker. 😂🤣
Thank you so much! Your diary of Growth is so very appreciated!
Very nice : ) I know what all went into it. I've done it too for over 25 years. I hope your harvest flourishes abundantly. God bless Mother Nature to help us take good care of ourselves, her, and each other, gardener brother.
Thanks, but I have nowhere to put them in the winter. A friend once gave me a banana that was two feet tall. I kept it in the house I owned that had south windows and the thing was touching the ceiling within a year.
Excellent! Your hard work is literally coming to life! I know there is still much to do, but seeing all the new shoots and leaves and flowers is encouraging.
I grew up on a large farm (180 acres). My dad used to plow our family garden with the big John Deere tractor, so I know about garden work, haha. We also had patches of edible plants and berry bushes around the perimeter of the house, like chives, raspberries, strawberries, and rhubarb. My mom would can rhubarb-strawberry sauce (among dozens of other foods) every year. I'd love to hear more about your home-brew wine made with rhubarb and strawberries!
I thinned out a small bed of baby lettuces on Saturday then washed and ate the culled plants, roots and all, in a salad with homemade Dijon & date syrup dressing. Yum!
I suppose a JD tractor and some grass seed for the pathways would have been easier, but then I don't look like I sit on my hind end all day (no offense to your dad of course).
I'll save a bottle for you and Ron, and send a care package with you for your travels.
You know we're all coming to live with you when the apocalypse hits, right? This is such a serious endeavor, William. I'm glad to be getting in my vicarious gardening through you.
My sister and her ex sometimes said, "you know, when the SHTF we are going to be at your back door, right?" I would sometimes reply, "I'm not just doing this for my health."
Thank you for sharing great pictures with explanations. I’m inspired to try to replicate some of your beds. Looking forward to future updates. Blessings.
I am delighted by the variety of veggies and even flowers you are planting. Do you have plans for succession planting? I have never seen veggies grown in relatively small areas surrounded by grass, do you expect the grass to stay out of the veggies' space? Or will removing it become a regular and continual weeding project?
The soil is so fertile the rhizomes of the grass stay about 2inches below. I will be cutting a small trench around each of the beds, and weeding the grass with rhizomes on the edge of the grass. And yes I will be succession planting through the summer, as well as building up the beds with compost.
Thank you. And, I did not have access to a garden, so I set the intention to find a place to build one. I don't own the land, but the landowner is thrilled I sought her out.
Just curious whether or not you’ve ever tried the sheet-mulch method rather than digging up sod. It’s worked well for us to do nearly the whole 1/4-acre that way.
I did that with the watermelon bed, piling up dried sheep compost on top of the grass and then covering it with soil. I probably could have done that with all the beds, but I used several different methods as an experiment. If I had to prep a quarter acre for a client I would probably use the sheet mulch method.
I always feel like a slacker when I see what you've managed 🤣😅
I'm hoping to have better luck with potatoes this year. I get 2 plantings,and between deer and voles I've only ever had enough to replant as seed. Katahdin is an excellent potato. I'm growing 2 Russian heirlooms, also a red,and a purple. Heirloom russet potatoes especially will show anyone the error of their ways of growing production ones. The taste is so vivid!
Rhubarb wine?? One wonders what it would take to bribe you into making Rhubarb strawberry preserves * drool*
I spent the last two days of the moon in cancer putting in my ready transplants ( I grew black Brandywine, Brandywine, and blk cherry tomatoes. Spanish Bull Nose sweet, 2 types of cukes which I failed to label! and a lsobthe bought ancho and jalapeño peppers. Put out my 3 colors if chard,dill and
Nasturtium I'd grown. )
Planted 2 winter melon types ( I just Now ate my last saved Tahitian Melon squash! It saved since Oct!) Pie pumpkin,whipporwill cow peas, amaranth, green beans and watermelon.
I only plant heirlooms now,as seed saving us critical.
Letting the buttercrunch go to seed...
And still...I feel like a slacker. 😂🤣
Thank you so much! Your diary of Growth is so very appreciated!
THanks I&K. Though I would not feel like a slacker unless you want to lose 40 lbs.
Well...I've lost 27...I'm going g to be happy with znother 10. The last 20 can come off when everyone is dropping...😐
That is quite a garden! Thanks for the update! It looks great!
Thank you! I forgot when I started, L knows half the people in the region. I am probably going to have to give a lot of tours.
Very nice : ) I know what all went into it. I've done it too for over 25 years. I hope your harvest flourishes abundantly. God bless Mother Nature to help us take good care of ourselves, her, and each other, gardener brother.
You too, sister. Probably your friends and family too are quietly grateful for your skills, just in case of the "apocalypse."
My mother's home made strawberry rhubarb pie is the only kind I ever like. Try your luck with the wine I'd be curious how it turns out!
I have some ready in the basement.....
Cherokee Purple are absolutely my favorite tomato. Been growing them for decades.
This is some high quality “garden pornography”!😂 Love it! Keep on rockin’ it, brother!
Will do! And Thanks!
Would you like palm tree saplings, I have 6 palm saplings in pots about 40 cm in length.
Thanks, but I have nowhere to put them in the winter. A friend once gave me a banana that was two feet tall. I kept it in the house I owned that had south windows and the thing was touching the ceiling within a year.
Excellent! Your hard work is literally coming to life! I know there is still much to do, but seeing all the new shoots and leaves and flowers is encouraging.
I grew up on a large farm (180 acres). My dad used to plow our family garden with the big John Deere tractor, so I know about garden work, haha. We also had patches of edible plants and berry bushes around the perimeter of the house, like chives, raspberries, strawberries, and rhubarb. My mom would can rhubarb-strawberry sauce (among dozens of other foods) every year. I'd love to hear more about your home-brew wine made with rhubarb and strawberries!
I thinned out a small bed of baby lettuces on Saturday then washed and ate the culled plants, roots and all, in a salad with homemade Dijon & date syrup dressing. Yum!
I suppose a JD tractor and some grass seed for the pathways would have been easier, but then I don't look like I sit on my hind end all day (no offense to your dad of course).
I'll save a bottle for you and Ron, and send a care package with you for your travels.
Haha! And thanks in advance for the care package. Ron doesn't imbibe, so the wine will be all mine!🤗🍷
You know we're all coming to live with you when the apocalypse hits, right? This is such a serious endeavor, William. I'm glad to be getting in my vicarious gardening through you.
My sister and her ex sometimes said, "you know, when the SHTF we are going to be at your back door, right?" I would sometimes reply, "I'm not just doing this for my health."
Thank you for sharing great pictures with explanations. I’m inspired to try to replicate some of your beds. Looking forward to future updates. Blessings.
Right on. Much more to come. Blessings to you too.
Thanks WHD. The magic of watching your endeavors &your garden grow is wonderful!
You are welcome!
I am delighted by the variety of veggies and even flowers you are planting. Do you have plans for succession planting? I have never seen veggies grown in relatively small areas surrounded by grass, do you expect the grass to stay out of the veggies' space? Or will removing it become a regular and continual weeding project?
The soil is so fertile the rhizomes of the grass stay about 2inches below. I will be cutting a small trench around each of the beds, and weeding the grass with rhizomes on the edge of the grass. And yes I will be succession planting through the summer, as well as building up the beds with compost.
I have been thrilled to watch your progress. I do not have access to a garden these days, and miss it sorely.
Thank you. And, I did not have access to a garden, so I set the intention to find a place to build one. I don't own the land, but the landowner is thrilled I sought her out.
Just curious whether or not you’ve ever tried the sheet-mulch method rather than digging up sod. It’s worked well for us to do nearly the whole 1/4-acre that way.
I did that with the watermelon bed, piling up dried sheep compost on top of the grass and then covering it with soil. I probably could have done that with all the beds, but I used several different methods as an experiment. If I had to prep a quarter acre for a client I would probably use the sheet mulch method.