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Category Archives: Gardening
Taking Cover Cropping to the Next Level
Covering cropping is an excellent addition to any gardening or mini-farming venture. If you’ve seen some of my recent posts, you know that I have been focused on expanding my use of cover crops to improve the heavy clay soil … Continue reading
Posted in Composting, Gardening
Tagged alfalfa, austrian winter pea, cereal rye, clover, country, country life, country living, country skills, cover crop, cover cropping, farm, field peas, garden, gardening, growing, hairy vetch, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, oats, rye grass, soil
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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Six
Here’s update number six in my Tillage Radish cover crop experiment. With the winter cold and occasional warm days doing its work on the radishes, the tubers are decaying and decomposing nicely. The tubers in the larger beds are still … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged country, country life, country living, country skills, cover crop, farm, garden, gardening, growing, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, tillage radish
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Starting Onions from Seed
To get the gardening season started and break up the doldrums of winter, I like to get things going by starting onions from seed. Onions can be grown from seeds, sets or plants. Sets are generally the most popular way … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged country, country living, country skills, crop, farm, garden, gardening, growing, homemade, homestead, indoor gardening, mini-farm, onion, onion seeds, seed flat, starting onion seeds
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What You Can Learn From the Juab County PVC Drip Irrigation System
Even though it’s still winter, it’s time to start preparing for the new garden season. This year it appears we may experience low rainfall again like last year. If that is the case, planning for more usage of a PVC … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, PVC Irrigation
Tagged beans, corn, country, country skills, drip irrigation, farm, fertilizer injection, garden, gardening, growing, homestead, mini-farm, peas, pvc, PVC irrigation, pvc system, tomatoes
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Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Five
Here’s update number five in my Tillage Radish cover crop experiment. Winter is in full swing at the end of December. The radish foliage has pretty much died completely and the tubers are starting to rot although the bigger ones are … Continue reading
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Tagged chickens, country, country life, country living, country skills, cover crop, farm, farm animal, farm animals, garden, gardening, growing, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, permaculture, tillage radish
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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
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Tagged bed, country life, country living, cover crop, food, garden, gardening, homestead, mini-farm, nitrogen, permaculture, plant, soil, soil improvement, tillage radish, weeds
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