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8 Must Have Cover and Compost Crops For Your Garden and Homestead
As I wrote in my first post on Cindy Conner’s Cover Crops and Compost Crops IN Your Garden DVD, I highly recommend anyone wanting to grow cover crops in their garden to get this DVD. In this post, I share … Continue reading
Posted in Composting, Gardening
Tagged alfalfa, austrian winter pea, buckwheat, cereal rye, clover, compost, compost crop, country, country life, country living, country skills, cover crop, farm, garden, gardening, growing, hairy vetch, harvest, homestead, homesteading, mini-farm, permaculture, red clover, wheat
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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
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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
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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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Top 10 Games – Part 5
Laura’s sister gave us this game, Life on the Farm, for Christmas in 2005. I think she found it at Tractor Supply. Our whole family loves this game. Our kids really enjoy role playing the ups and downs of farm life. … Continue reading
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Tagged country life, country living, country skills, family, family fun, family games, farm, games, life on the farm, to 10 games
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