Gardening

They are a garden staple. Last couple years the squash bug problem has hindered our butternut squash production so we’re going sweet potatoes…it’s been a few years since we’ve grown them. Our stock was getting low anyway. I dehydrate approximately 60% of our crops each year, it’s the best way for us to preserve food for future use. I can our tomatoes along with dehydrating them.
We grow in the ground, in grow bags, in straw bales outside…in the greenhouse it’s all grow bags, from 20 gallon to 3 gallon.
Our outside gardens include 2 Raspberry patches (free form) a 25 x 4 strawberry bed, 4 straw bales plus an extra bed made from compost and old straw bales.
The outside fenced garden has 4 raised beds of various sizes…the two biggest are 4 x 5 x 3 …for carrots, onions, green beans, spinach, radishes.
A 20 x 3 bed for roma tomatoes. Then ‘floater’ beds for different veggies that we experiment with. Peas, zucchini, summer squash.
Greenhouse is mostly cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes, various peppers from green to habanero.

Every pound of food that we grow is on less pound we have to buy.

Most all our veggies are from seeds that we save…we practice soil remediation by mostly natural means supplementing when necessary. We grow Comfrey for fertilizer and compost all green matter. Last year we grew one of the largest harvests we’ve had in a while holding costs down to less than 150 dollars invested, mainly to replace bags and get some different strains of seeds.