Tag: mulch
Successful Cultivation….
On Weeding your garden The art of successfully cultivating your garden plot could fill tomes! Today I plan to introduce you to one method of…
No-Till Didn’t Work…Sort of!
Why no till didn’t work for us in our gardens and this is how we fixed it! No till is not a panacea and context…
Deep thoughts on deep mulch?
Ok so nothing too deep here thought wise, but I was slinging some hay and straw today… mulching big time! We’re still about a month…
Creating Ruth Stout style garden bed
Fast, Easy, Low Labor Garden Bed, Inspired by Ruth Stout I wrote previously in my post on deep mulch about Ruth Stout, and her gardening…
Forest Gardens
I stumbled on this fine example of what a forest type garden can look like. With a little planning and properly timed disturbance this style…
Sheet Mulching Our Front Yard!
I wrote a while back about our battle with thistles on the homestead. One of my strategies for dealing with them on a small scale…
Homestead Happenings: December 2015
Homestead Update Dec 2015 Well here we go… knee deep in the hustle and bustle of the Season! Not much time for games, unless you…
Garden Update Video July 2015
I’m going to try something new today, a bit of en experiment. I shot about six minutes of video in the garden with my phone yesterday and…
Homestead Heros, Plants of Promise: Rhubarb
Rhubarb Aside from asparagus, rhubarb is probably one of the most easily recognizable perennials on the homestead. This hardy garden standout is easily propagated, and…
Sheet Mulch: Garden Fertility by the Numbers
Sheet mulch is a great way to get a new garden bed started or to rehab an old weedy bed. I created this simple infographic…
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