-
Search
Post Categories
- About (2)
- Composting (7)
- Family (24)
- Farm Animals (10)
- Farmers Market (1)
- Games (5)
- Gardening (44)
- General (32)
- Homeschool (5)
- PVC Irrigation (3)
- Recipes (29)
- Tools (1)
- Uncategorized (3)
- Wood Heating (1)
- Worm Composting (6)
Favorite Quotes
- Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world. George Washington
Tags
- all natural
- bed
- cake
- chicken
- chickens
- comfrey
- compost
- composting
- cooking
- corn
- country
- country life
- country living
- country skills
- cover crop
- crop
- dinner
- family
- family fun
- farm
- farm animal
- farm animals
- food
- fun
- games
- garden
- gardening
- growing
- harvest
- homemade
- homestead
- homesteading
- land
- mini-farm
- permaculture
- pig
- plant
- planting
- recipe
- soil
- tillage radish
- tomato
- tomatoes
- top 10 games
- wide row
Blogroll
Tag Archives: plant
Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Four
Here’s update number four in my Tillage Radish experiment this year. The pictures below were taken last week. We’ve had many nights in the low 30’s, high 20’s but still some fairly warm days and nights for this time of … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged bed, country life, country living, cover crop, food, garden, gardening, homestead, mini-farm, nitrogen, permaculture, plant, soil, soil improvement, tillage radish, weeds
Comments Off on Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Four
Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Three
Here’s the third update on the tillage radish cover crop beds. It’s been four weeks since the last update, and the radishes are about two feet tall with tubers ranging from two to three inches in diameter. Some tubers are … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged bed, cover crop, food, garden, gardening, homestead, mini-farm, nitrogen, permaculture, plant, soil, soil improvement, tillage radish, weeds
Comments Off on Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Three
Tillage Radish Update
It’s been about three and half weeks since I planted the experimental tillage radish beds. The Lord provided and excellent rain this last week–about four, soaking inches–and the radishes have come to life. True to form, they are growing rapidly with some … Continue reading
The Joys of a Bountiful Harvest
The kids are a big help in managing the garden and growing our own healthy food. The work can be tough and hot at times, but there are those simple rewards of learning diligence and responsibility—not to mention the joys … Continue reading
Nine Foot Tall Sweet Corn – Double Dug Bed
Besides the tomatoes I’m keeping watered during this drought, I am also watering this one four foot by twenty foot bed of sweet corn. The sweet corn is doing exceptionally well in this bed this year. Here’s what I did … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged composting, corn, country, double dig, double digging, farm, garden, gardening, grass, growing, homestead, John Jeavons, land, mini-farm, plant, plant food, planting, soil, sweet corn, tiller, wide row
Comments Off on Nine Foot Tall Sweet Corn – Double Dug Bed
Tomato Harvest: Thunder-and-Lightening recipe
It’s been a struggle keeping the garden alive in this drought this year. But if there is one thing we do, as my wife says, we must get the tomatoes! We’ve been watering the tomatoes once a week and they … Continue reading
