Want to be an advanced vegetable gardener? You will be when you know which vegetables are in which families. This is crucial info for healthy crop rotation in your garden (and you’ll be able to astonish your friends with new vocabulary like cucurbits). You can memorize all the vegetable families—or just bookmark this article and check on it before you plant each season. Crop rotation sounds like one of those headachey projects involving graph paper and Number 2 pencils. It’s not…
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Use a pond to raise fish for food on your property—we’ll show you the simplest ways to stock your pond with fish you’d like to eat. As the University of Arkansas Extension so penetratingly…
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Most cover crops are planted in late summer, but there are some cover crop seed mixes that can go in the ground in the springtime and give you benefits by the end of the summer. Cover cropping is a cheap…
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This was great! Your planters are a little like mine in my enabled square-foot garden that I do ALL from my Rascal Scooter. Mine were made from my 5 yeat old redwood fence boards. They are different lengths but 0nly 2 ft wide so I can reach across. My constructor, John, put drip lines in the latest boxes and wire arches from box to box for the feeder lines, so I can drive under, not over. I started pole beans on the arches. I have a 22 slide, slide show (windows photo gallery) if you would like a view! I had your bumper sticker on a box out front, but the wet wood sort of let it curl.
Love every thing I got from you! The cylendar beets have the best greens!
Charlotte, Peaceful Valley Says:
Oct 1st, 2012 at 7:54 am
Janet, What wonderful raised beds you have! It’s inspiring to hear that you do so much gardening from a scooter! We’d love to see your irrigation arches covered with green beans—and more of your garden. If you’re on Facebook, please post photos on our Page there so everyone can see them https://www.facebook.com/GrowOrganic