-
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: 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
2 Comments
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
Comments Off on Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Six
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
2 Comments
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
4 Comments
New Year, New Possibilities
With the New Year upon us, many of us think about new possibilities and goals for improving our homestead and making things better. Especially as the new seed catalogs start coming in, I personally like to think about new things … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged biointensive, country, country life, country living, country skills, family, farm, garden, gardening, goals, grow biointensive, homestead, homesteading, John Jeavons, land, mini-farm, new year, resolutions, tillage radish
Comments Off on New Year, New Possibilities
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
Posted in Gardening
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
Comments Off on Tillage Radish Cover Crop Update Five
