How to Plan Your Fall Garden
It’s Summer. You may think that gardening season is about over. You can get another growing season. Start succession planting your Victory Garden now!
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Garden Guides
Creating a New Garden Bed with Milpa
Grow Food, Not Lawns. To create new garden beds from grass, do you use cardboard? I use a broadfork to turn over the sod, add compost, and then sow Milpa seed.
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Your Companion Planting Guide to Deter Pests and Thrive
Which crops you choose to plant next to each other makes a difference. The right choice can provide nitrogen, deter pests, improve flavor, and provide shade or protection.
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How to Start Your Garden: Dream, Plan, then Plant
Spring is dawning. Whether you have never gardened before, or you are a green thumb, you are excited about what this year may hold. Where to start? Start here.
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Soil Health is the Foundation of Your Garden
Your guide to building soil health: Compost, amendments, micronutrients.
Organic Matter – It’s What Plants Crave.
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Homestead Aquaponics, Step by Step – The World’s Greatest Ebb and Flow Bed
Real-world aquaponics. The World’s Greatest Ebb and Flow Bed.
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The Best Ways to Control Weeds
Let’s look at some other options for dealing with weeds, ones that will avoid harsh herbicides.
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How I Built a Greenhouse from Recycled Windows
Build a greenhouse to extend your growing season with greens in the Winter and start new seedlings earlier in the Spring.
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Plant Leaf Lettuce to Eat Lettuce All Season
Leaf lettuce is a “cut and come again” crop. You can cut as much as you want, and the lettuce will regrow those leaves. This continues until it bolts or frosts.
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Interplanting Perennials with Annuals in the Garden
It is still March. The last frost in NE Kansas is still over a month away. It is encouraging to see the perennials – walking onions, bloody dock sorrel, and plantain already prominent and harvestable in modest amounts. I plucked some Narrow Leaf plantain (perennial) and some mustard that overwintered and fed them to my chickens. These pictures are from late April last year. The perennials are going full speed. I planted annual Black Seeded Simpson lettuce between them and had cut and come again lettuce throughout the Spring. Last year I converted some of my garden, the peripheral parts, into perennials, with annuals in the middle. The Benefits of Adding Perennials to Your Garden Regular greens in my garden bolt quickly when it gets hot in early summer. Perennial Garden Beds More info on how I am using Milpa gardening to start new beds, cover crop with produce in the first year. I used my Meadow Creature broadfork to turn over grass, spread Milpa seed, covered with a layer of wood chips. It leaves a natural mulch and builds soil.
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