Welcome to another round of food storage friday.. the problem is, nothing is new!! No really, its quiet around here, sort of.. I have been playing with recipes, and tripe, bone marrow and quail this week.. its been fun but not very food storage related..

I’m not adding anything to the storage because the few things coming are being eaten fresh, and I’m buying things.. so.. lets say all well in food storage and take ourselves to future of what will provide food to stored 🙂

Lets talk about using stones to create mini heat sinks in spring to help get a head start on just one or two plants of different things for the purpose not of the main harvest but for kitchen use..

I think this is something that is not talk enough about in regular garden books, they talk about planting whole rows and then processing amount of x for day and then done, I’m game for that, we need it for our canning/pantry filling gardens but we also need to kitchen garden, and that is slightly different.. This plant should not even seeded out yet in regular garden, but here it sits in a hot manure box greenhouse with a rock heat sink, almost six weeks early and the joy of it is, by the time it does need the help or the protection and it will overrun and outgrow its planting area, the weather will be perfect, and I will have summer eating squash by may for my kitchen use!

Do you use rocks to create micro-heat sinks in your garden? Do you use rocks in your garden to create water holding spots in your garden? Do you move your rocks around during the season for different uses? Do you watch ditches or walks to find the right size and shape of rocks to be used in different ways in your gardens?