Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category
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Storage Vegetables 2010
Monday, August 16th, 2010
After last years horrible potato harvest we decided to take the year off from potatoes. Instead we focused on onions which we were able to harvest in great numbers. We planted mostly yellow storage onions and harvested about 6 or 7 dozen several weeks ago.
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Updates from the garden
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The no-dig beds we constructed seem to have caused our tomato, basil, and pepper plants to take off running. We’ve got a lot of tomatoes coming in and more flowers blooming every day. We didn’t really follow a strict guideline when putting them together, just the general idea. Started with a bunch of cardboard to [...]
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Expanding The Garden
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Our landlord gave us to go ahead to expand our garden into the sheep pasture next to our house. We took down a large oak tree that was shading a good chunk of our new and existing garden area and cleared it all out. Now it’s just a matter of making the gardening beds.
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Lazy Bed Potato Update
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
So we got about a month of rain around these parts. This really matted down our hay onto the lazy bed. Not thinking about the fact that we were basically creating a compost pile, we didn’t add more hay onto the bed and as a result a lot of our vines composted in the rotting hay. Major bummer. We only harvested 5 potatoes.
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Lazy Bed Potato Update
Monday, June 1st, 2009
At least we’ll have potatoes!
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Potatoes the lazy way
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
…As interesting as all this history is, why do you want to bother growing another thing in your garden to sop up your precious little time? Another bed to weed, tend, and monitor? And who grows potatoes anyway? Well, as unfathomable as it may seem, those ancient farmers were a lot busier than we are today, and generally with tasks that literally were a matter of life and death (think: food, water, shelter, security) and they weren’t eager to add another chore for themselves either. Which is why the lazy-bed method worked out perfectly: there is virtually NO WORK to be done after sowing. Yep, none. Leave it, harvest potatoes when hungry…