Just about everything lol I hate weeding. Tomatoes, peppers, strawberries, kale, cauliflower, beets, onions to name a few
I was thinking it was for blight and other disease control from splash up. Also for plants not cold tolerant. But many of the ones your are growing are cold tolerant. Never seen beets grown that way. What is the acreage you manage to plant?
I'm farming 1 acre in veggies this year and using 4 for rotational grazing once I get my lambs. The soil ph was 5.2 and I only had enough $ to lime and fence 1 acre this year as I had to start from scratch on this new location. Ahh the challenges of being an anti-usda loan farmer lol. Slow and steady. I'm working with 10 other local farmers plus another 10 or so local small businesses and created a local food cluster that's accessed by a members only virtual farmers market. It's much better than a CSA imo.
I wish you well. So many hardships farmers gamble with. I think the public has no idea when they pick up a tomato and complain that it is too expensive.
Worked on a new fence today. I still need to get it buttoned up. It's 8 feet high. I think the surface area of the fence is bigger than my garden. If this doesn't keep the deer out I will give up.
Does anyone know what kind of plant this is? The neighbor that gave it to me in the 1990's was from Austria and with her accent it sounded like she called it a cleopithia (?) I have not had success on google. It has never bloomed. PS, the couple white spots are paint from remodeling LOL.
Mud control suggestions? We do not have water here, so I am hoping for something that will seed and root quick before the dry summer. Before we had the septic put in there was a mix of weeds and lake shore grass that had moved in over the last 60 years. I just need enough so the dogs can run around without bringing in a pound of mud everytime they go in and out. LOL, you can still see the rows from the tractor tines in the dirt.
Got mulch delivered. $152 for three yards black mulch. Now comes the hard part! Have to spread it around. My son will do the majority of that. Next week, I get a delivery of loam/topsoil for for some of the new garden area. Cost a lot more than it did when I bought it years back, but then everything seems so much more.
We're planning to have our septic guy bring us a couple yards of topsoil for the garden when he's done with the septic. Going pretty simple and small this year though. Wife plans to try some straw bale planting, and we'll do a bunch of green beans in the raised beds. We'll be building some chicken wire covers for the GBs, since the wabbits LOVED those last time I planted them.
It is always a disappointment when you go out to the garden and find every top to your seedlings have been eaten off. For us, it is the ground hog that came. My son seems to think he has either killed it or driven it off. He put something down the hog's hole, then covered both ends. Haven't seen any evidence of it this year. No more underbrush near the home. No rabbits here for several years now. We have an abundance of predators that love rabbits.
We had dogs and a cat that would kill rabbits when we used to have rabbits. Once, two of our dogs caught a ground hog. It was longer when they were done with it. One of the girls pet rabbits got out of his pen. The dog got that one also.
I just started working up the garden beds today. I am also adding some vertical trellises. One thing I have discovered in a small garden almost all plants grow better vertically!! I have watermelon this year too!
