We needed a quick greenhouse to start seeds in early. Here is my attempt with some of the important points shown below and a link to further instructions. Thanks to TexasPrepper2 on youtube for the inspiration. This greenhouse is built using 3 cattle panels. Each panel measures 16 feet long by 50 inches. The base […]
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We are planting out this year’s garden as fast as we can. It is so nice to have the garden fence all done so we can keep the animals out…especially the chickens. We are up to about 15 raised beds, with quite a few additional small and large containers. Within the fenced in garden we
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We used some of our excess logs that we didn’t want to burn in the wood stove for hugelkultur garden beds. Below are some pictures with descriptions of how we built them.You can read more about hugelkultur from richsoil.com, here. The main advantage to hugelkultur is that as the wood rots it will hold water
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The winter garden is going well. This year we’ve planted lettuce, spinach, kale, carrots, beets, broccoli, cabbage and lots of turnips. I wish the beets and broccoli were doing better, but everything else is doing great. It’s nice how minimal the pest pressure is in fall/winter gardening. We’ve had temperatures down in the mid 20’s
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Sarah wanted to document the state of our 2015 garden by recording a video at the beginning of July. She does talk briefly about the chicken coops and the compost bins as well. This is only our second year of gardening, so I suspect we will look back at this video and have a few
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We don’t have a large permanent greenhouse yet or enough space in our little cabin to get seedlings going early. We decided that making little temporary greenhouses (a.k.a poly tunnels) would be the next best thing. We built ours over existing raised beds, but any growing space could be covered with a poly tunnel. The
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We picked up another load of horse manure to mix in with our own less-than-ideal “soil” to fill the new garden beds. We will top the beds off with some organic garden soil and a layer of mulch, and then let them sit for a couple of months until we’re ready to plant.
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We are doubling the size of our small garden for this spring. We added four more raised beds using what was on hand. To make our new raised beds we used the first cuts from felling our pines to make room for the initial garden last year. Sarah is adding biomass to the bottom of
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We planted 4 sweet potato slips in a raised bed this spring and we just harvested them. We were pleasantly surprised to dig up over 10 lbs., which is much better than our regular potato harvest this year.
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The fall garden is planted. We are keeping it small this first year and growing radishes, beets, carrots, various lettuce, kohlrabi, and broccoli. One of 5 pumpkins from our single plant. All 13 chickens are doing fine. The little ones are 6 weeks old.
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