Category Archives: gardens
The Squash Bed.. Part one
So times you need to be creative and see what can be, not just what is.. So to the one side you have a food hedge row with five layers of different things aka a guild system, and then on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Food Forest, Food forest systems, open strawbale growing system, Squash hills, squash plants
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Garden Report May 26th to 31st
Costs in the garden outputs this week- 0 Total Garden Outputs (including seeds/plants) for 2013- 468.15 dollars Total Garden imputes in terms of harvest for 2013-983.84 Currently = In the good by 515.69 Total Garden impute in terms of free, gifted … Continue reading
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Tagged eating well, Frugal, garden report, Garden report 2013, gardens, the high price at the farmers markets
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Hard Fruits and Soft Fruits May 2013
Sour Cherries Gooseberry High Bush Cranberry Mulberry Plums Apples Saskatoon Elderberry Pea’s in flower Strawberry Ground Cherry Currents Chokeberry looks like we should be able to get a lot more crops this year then last that is for sure!
Garden Update May 18th-25th
Costs in the garden outputs this week- 36 Total Garden Outputs (including seeds/plants) for 2013- 468.15 dollars Total Garden imputes in terms of harvest for 2013-746.91 Currently = In the good by 278.76 Total Garden impute in terms of free, gifted … Continue reading
The free plant event in the city..
My offerings to the plant event and or free plant drop offs timer to match our trip in.. Bags of compost, rhubarb roots, horse radish, nettles, wild violets, applemint, spearment, red beebalm, comfry, black elders, creeping Charlie, vergina creeper, Can … Continue reading
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Tagged free cycle plant events, free plant event, giving your time, sharing the bounty
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strawberry’s and more strawberries- two kinds..
Started the year with several dozen strawberries, then transferred out 48 new babies into new rows from my own patch.. Got 136 new everbearing strawberries on Friday.. Got my flat of 120 baby alpine strawberries Got a pot of 12 … Continue reading
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Tagged apline strawberries, ever=bearing strawberries, june bearing strawberries
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Garden Friday Report- May 4th to 10th
No costs in the garden outputs this week- 0 Total Garden Outputs (including seeds/plants) for 2013- 370 dollars Total Garden imputes in terms of harvest for 2013-126.72 Currently = in the hole 243.28 Total Garden impute in terms of free, gifted … Continue reading
Sunflower Report 1- May
Well, for those of you who are new to the blog, please check out my first post on the grand 2013 Sunflower plan 🙂 So its grown a bit, I have confirmed with Farmer R that he has no issues … Continue reading
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Tagged sunflowers, sunflowers for animal fodder, sunflowers for bedding for animlas
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Asparagus are starting to come up now..
while we are planting last night dh pointed out something that I had in fact missed… there in their bed where asparagus standing proud and tall, with more spearing shooting up from the rich dark soil… I think for the first … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 