Article (found in the FAQ page, under ‘Commercial Growing / Becoming Self-Sufficient With a Small Market Garden’) on what you might expect from planning a small market garden offers up this advice: Advice for your Small Scale Market Garden II. Creating Your Own Successful Market Garden How do you prepare? 1. START SMALL! Don’t […]
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Artisan asparagus
Photo credit: jasonwebber01 from morguefile.com Early in my “guest” period on this blog, i wrote about my back-killing efforts to plant more asparagus, and the perils of the monsoon rains and mud for weeks, thereafter. some tiny plants made it, but i must re-plant over half the bed. it is getting a bit hotter here, and […]
Here’s the Poop on Manure
In all this talk about raising urban chickens and growing organically in city allotment plots… it was bound to raise the topic of manure. After all, it is no secret that this is a big part of life (albeit not spoken of in polite company;), and gardening is all about life. So in my search […]
all creation begins with a seed
throughout the latest 2-day spring deluge, i was confined to the back porch starting seeds both for my own garden use, plus a tray or two to promote and sell heirloom tomatoes… they are by far the best tasting tomatoes, plus you can save seeds and they will easily acclimate to your garden climate, wherever […]
Coneflower Gardens Make Progress
I loved Coneflowers depiction of how her garden is progressing. She is making raised beds, and has pictures of her pretty tomato seedlings- all looking fine and thrifty.“The recommended perfect soil is 1/3 blended compost, 1/3 vermiculite, and 1/3 peat moss” … mine would be filled differently just the garden loam with peatmoss and halfmade […]
Satisfaction of a Hard Day’s Work
All those chores and garden ideas I accumulated during the winter are now in process of becoming accomplishments. Yesterday I put in a good hard days work, taught my kids some things and put them to work practicing horticultural skills. The garden is a great place to talk about not just horticultural practices and facts, […]
