I have a line up of seeds for cover crops in the big garden (Don’s garden). Typically we plant legumes to get more nitrogen into the soil. And eventually the plant litter should help develop more humus in this sand. Also, this year I started scattering legume seeds to grow around particularly heavy feeding plants…
Category: In the Garden
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Goodbye to Cactus and the Summer Garden
I don’t know exactly how I’m going to celebrate this week, but for sure, I am going to celebrate! My 10 year plan has taken me 6 years, and I’m pretty ecstatic about it. Ten acres of little bitty cactus is cleaned up. There were times I wondered if I’d die out there while I…
Front Yard Foraging, Flowers, and Fall
We’re creeping toward fall weather! I’ve gotten part of the garden planted, in fact the lettuce is already up. Friday evening I had good intentions to plant all the greens, but I got sidetracked by harvesting mushrooms again. There’s a little different variety of puffball mushroom coming up now and they are pretty large, but…
Get Ready for Fall Gardening
I got my seed order this past week, and as usual I went overboard, but I really needed it all! Some of the seeds will get stored until spring planting time. The deer are marauding again, so I have to rethink some of my areas I plant. I ordered most of my seeds from Seed…
Lessons from the Garden
If you garden, you know, sometimes it’s hard to figure out what the heck is happening to your plants. I grow some of the vegetables in large containers in our back rock garden area. This morning I thought I’d plant some seeds in a couple containers where the plants just all of a sudden died. …