My garden plan...

[smwon]

Wild asparagus that I transplanted from the river last summer. I planted it in the same sandy soil it was growing in. I really didn’t think it was going to live but it is! I am going to plant it in the perennial bed at the end of the garden and get seeds from it this fall to start more OR maybe it will self sow…

This was when I brought it over to the new house. I thought it might be still alive because the buds seemed to be firm when I pressed on them.



And this was taken today just a couple weeks later.

[smwon]

The garden naked! We have a couple more times going over it before we add the compost. It’s been just as hard as I thought it would be. Jim’s tired and going to take a nap and I am going to work on it for a while. Maybe I will have it done and ready for the compost and last round by the time he wakes… we will see.

[mrsflibble]

don't mention your gas prices lol! with conversion we are at about $5 per gallon. more if you're running a diesel.
My plot is a fairly large one for this bit of the UK. you're very lucky.

[smwon]

don't mention your gas prices lol! with conversion we are at about $5 per gallon. more if you're running a diesel.
My plot is a fairly large one for this bit of the UK. you're very lucky.

Wow five dollars a gal... I guess we are all feeling the crunch, eh? Ours isn't that high, but high enough, almost $4 a gallon. If it were $5 we'd never go anywhere. That's just crazy!

Thanks, I do feel lucky.

[smwon]

It has been very frustrating tilling this garden. All the holes made it a whole hellava lot of work. What should have been a pretty straight forward job has turned into a major undertaking. The tiller weighs 400 pounds (that’s what they told us) and every time you hit one of those humps, the tiller goes what ever direction it wants and you have to fight the beast. Then you have to go over and over the lump till you get it down. The garden is getting tilled pretty deep… close to 12 inches in some spots. We had to quit last night because I got frustrated and it was getting dark. The tiller has to be returned no later than 9 am this morning. It rained last night so I will have to see how wet the garden is now. I may not be able to till on it anymore before we have to take it back… it’s still dark out so I sit and wait for daylight. Next year the garden should be easy to till up…

[smwon]

Mud… and rain for the next week is forecasted.

[smwon]

I will have to put off planting for more than a week. I guess I will transplant the seedlings into larger pots. Didn't want to do that.

[Millymollymandy]

Oh go and have a well earned break! Aren't your arms nearly pulled out of their sockets by now?

You've done a lot in a short time, well done!

[smwon]

Thanks... my right arm, shoulder and even my arm pit especially feels like its been run through something or something just ran over me during the night! Man am I sore! It's a good sore though.

We didn't get any rain yesterday after all and the wind was bowing pretty hard too. The garden is drying up so maybe Wed if it doesn't rain, I can get the garden finished... at least the sections that I need to get planted now.

I was going to start my tomato seeds yesterday, but I couldn't find the potting soil. I need more anyways so I think I will just get some while we are out and about today. I am hoping I will have my own made by next spring.

[smwon]

3/26/08 We went and visited my children and grandchildren yesterday. I missed my chance to work in the garden. It didn’t rain until early this morning… if I had of known I would have postponed my visit till today… but the weather has been the same forecast, so how can a person tell? We can’t so I won’t cry over spilled milk. I wouldn’t have missed the visit with the kids for anything… there is to seldom a chance.

I’ve decided to plant the corn when I plant out the beets, spinach, peas, carrots and radishes Supposedly they can be planted out two weeks before the last frost date; I know they do that in Ohio every year. I am also going to plant, at the same time and in the same bed, the white and yellow corn so I can have a bicolor corn this summer. I think it may turn out sweeter and better than the straight colored corn because supposedly the op white corn is sweeter than op yellow corn. I’ll save the seed. I will plant the Painted Mountain on the second planting after I harvest the first ones. AND I am going to soak the corn seed for a few days before I plant it… that is another thing I have been reading is good to do to get it started early.

If I wasn’t going to grow some field corn as well as sweet corn, I would do as Lee Reich say in this article about growing corn: “My first planting of a 10-foot bed of sweet corn is followed with additional plantings at two-week intervals. I figure how long I can keep this up by looking at the ''days to maturity'' on the seed packet, then counting back that number of days from mid-September, after which corn hardly ripens any more around here.â€

[Hawthorn]

How I plan to harvest the wheat I got from one of Jean Auel’s books about how Ayla gathered the grain. She just grabbed the wheat head in her hand and stripped the grain into a bucket. Should work fine on a small scale.
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LOVE that series. I think the last one I read was the shelters of stone.....I don't think she has anymore out does she? I'm dying for the next one, but it's been a while now

[smwon]

That was the last one... she is supposed to have another one in the works and the time is here... LET'S HAVE IT NOW I SAY!

[smwon]

Instead of keeping a journal of sorts in several different forums, I decided to start a blog. If you wish to continue reading the progress of my small biointensive mini farm, I will update my blog regularly. Please visit LinderCroft at:

http://lindercroft-smwon.blogspot.com/

Please post a comment if the urge hits you! I'd love the interaction in my blog.

[Millymollymandy]

OK I will look in to see your progress!

[smwon]

Progress finally! Take a look see...

http://lindercroft-smwon.blogspot.com/