How to build your own frost blanket system to extend your vegetable growing season.
Archive for October, 2010
Frost Blanket To Extend Vegetable Growing Season
Posted in MyGarden, Sustainability, tagged fall planting, frost blanket, frost protection, killing frost, remay cloth on October 29, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Cover Crops vs. Fertilizers
Posted in Composting, MyGarden, tagged buckwheat, clover, cover crops, fertilizer, gardening costs, green manure, organic gardening, peas, rye, vetch, wheat on October 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Cover crops or green manure help condition your soil and can reduce the cost of fertilizers during the growing season!
The Leaning Tower of Potatoes – Harvesting!
Posted in MyGarden on October 8, 2010 | 11 Comments »
We planted our “tater tower” Kennebec potatoes on May 22nd of this year and harvested today – Oct. 8th (~ 4 1/2 months from sowing to harvest). Here is a photo journal of the process of taking it down. But first, lessons learned: Planting about 3 lbs yielded a little over 10 lbs. Hate to [...]
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