Making A Homestead

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Scapes galore

In plants such as onions, shallots and garlic the bulb will often send up a long leafless shoot called a scape. If left a lone it will turn into a flower. However, it is usually removed for two reasons. One being that removal causes the plant to instead focus its energy on enlarging the bulb [...]

2011 Gardening Season – Crop List

Plants transplanted that I started from seed:

Super Sweet 100 Hybrid Cherry Tomato Better Boy Hybrid Tomato – a lot Ring-o-Fire Cayene Pepper Black Beauty Eggplant – Lots! Dukat Dill Rosemary

Plants transplanted (bought)

Goliath Hybrid tomato Burpee Cucumbers Jalapenos Watermelon Cantelope Sweet Potatoes Rosemary Stevia

Direct Sowed Seeds

Green Pole Beans – old seed [...]

Tromboncino?

Today I planted seed from 2 types of corn I had leftover from last year on a whim (one yellow, one white). I also planted seed for some Tromboncino Squash I got from Territorial Seed. From what I have read Tromboncino Squash ( also called Zucchetta Rampicante) has some really amazing properties. One being that [...]

Aphids!!!

Argh! Today i found aphids on all of my leaf lettuce. They are just about to go to seed. So, I just need them to live long enough for me to harvest the seeds. However, I also need to put some herbs in that same bed. So, I made up someof my homemade organic bug [...]

New Beds!

I built some new beds the other day in my continued effort to stick vegetable beds anywhere I can fit them and thought I would share them with you.

3X3 bed I made from scrap wood

3 new (2×6) beds I added after [...]

Garden Update

Soon to harvest, here are some updated broccoli pics…

Up-close gratuitous broccoli shot

More broccoli…mmmmmm

Sugar Snap Peas & Spinach in the same 1×1 square

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Broccoli coming in

It has been a while since I have had any photo updates. However, I was still active during the winter. One of the main things I did was to make metal cages around all my beds based on Mel Bartholomew’s ideas. It was pretty simple I just used a metal screen that was fairly heavy [...]

The 2011 Garden begins…

Ok. It is a new year and I am very hopeful that this year’s production will be booming. Hopefully, I have my rodent problem in check. I have also built metal cages for almost all my beds based on Mel Bartholomew’s method from his Square Foot Gardening book.

Also, I have finally got my seed [...]

Critter Crisis

Sorry it has been so long since I last posted. I’m back working again and things are hectic as I’ve now moved into my manager’s position and we’re getting ready to move offices. But, I digress… That isn’t why you stopped by.

Another reason why it has been so long since I posted, my garden [...]

Transplants and guide wires

Been making a lot of changes in the garden. I had to thin out a bunch of lettuce so, I decided to try transplanting them. In addition, I bought a couple eggplants (since my seeds didn’t sprout). I put those in the garden and found places for the yellow crookneck squashes that were given to [...]

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