Category Archives: Gardening
Planting a Potato Tower
If this works, we will have made some serious lemonade out of lemons, or in this case: potatoes out of old hay and built up manure from the barn. We’re calling it the “Potato Monolith” and i’ll be revisiting it … Continue reading
Filed under Dogs/ Corgis, Farming, Gardening, Vegetables
Breaking Ground – Part 1
The wood posts are purchased. The hoop house area of the garden is almost all scalped and ready to gently till with my supremely awesome new broadfork. The chickens spent several months fertilizing and a few weeks assisting the tillage. … Continue reading
Spring Blooms and Burnin’ Stuff
It’s starting to look like Spring up here in the Kings Valley! Daffies are blooming, the crocus would be blooming if the slugs weren’t eating them, and the Indian Plum is in full, gorgeous force. They’re always the first thing … Continue reading
Filed under Pasture Management, The Homestead, Weeds
The Roo Gardening Apron – Truly is a Tool, Not a Garment
I first saw The Roo at our local feed store. I didn’t yet have a garden, so although i was tantalized, i resisted. A few months passed and i found myself with chickens and rabbits requiring hay shlepping and forage … Continue reading
