Stop tilling your soil. Continue to put down good materials to FEED your soil and it will FEED you.
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Take cuttings and make starts. The risk with the rootball method is disease might get in.
If you bend a lower branch ( fig tree ) to the ground staple it down, cover with dirt – it will root and you'll cut it from the tree and there ya go, just plant it – boom – you got another tree (s) orchard – better than " movin to Montana soon , gonna be a dentil floss tycoon – jus me and my Pygmy Pony " Phi Zappa Crapa
I mow over the fallen leaves each fall a bunch of times to get it broken up and mulched up and put it on my flower beds and gardens. Then threw out the summer I take the grass cuttings and put it on threw out the summer.
Anything related to walnuts is absolute toxic to tomatoes.
Mexican landscapers keep cutting down my pomegranates with their weed eater. Keep telling them not to, even put a cage around it. Can't divide the fig tree since Im afraid they may cut that down too. I need to get out of the city up to my acreage so I wouldn't have to deal with strange hardheaded people on my property.
We had, for a first year ever garden, honestly a way better harvest here in Wisconsin than we could have prayed for, a lot of forest foraging was done as well. Now that our animals have been poopin on the spent hay, we are going to be layering that on before the first snow, hopefully our yield will be way better, and thank you for the info on “lasagna” layering. We tilled this year and won’t be doing it next year
Watching you eat that fig and talk about fried green tomatoes made my mouth water!
We're in Southern Indiana and in June and July we had very little rain and was watering our garden 3 times a week. Overall it was a success but really had to work at it.
Failed crops were sweet corn, melons, and limited tomatoes.
Successful crops were cucumbers, green beans, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, peppers and winter squash. Our pantry is again over full again, plus we expanded our long-term dry goods storage. Our new freeze dryer is getting a workout. Aa added blessing we harvested our first deer of the season. The barn is full of dry firewood and the new solar system is performing flawlessly.
Life is good 👍 Cleaning up the gardens this weekend and prepping everything for winter and challenging times.
Not our best year gardening but feel extremely blessed for everything God has provided.
PEACE BROTHERS AND SISTERS BE SAFE
Thanks Zach 😊
It's called weather manipulation
Hopefully we have next year
Will you explain more in depth the layering of your garden? I have never heard about this method.
We have an abundance of turkey tail mushrooms… I will try them.😇
Gonna have to report you for gardening without a license. Every garden must be registered. The WEF needs to know where you get your food from.
note to self: worms drink coffee too. 😂
Green tomatoes make a nice pickle relish!
Yeap my tomatoes were horrible and what I did get most of it went to critters. Skunks deer and worms. The whole garden was a flop mostly. Peppers did well though
We are in NE OK and had trouble with green beans and tomatoes. We ended up putting shade cloth over the tomatoes and finally grew some. But most had to ripen in paper bags
My tomatoes turned on late… turnips did well, my cucumbers died and I got no figs!! Now I have moles
just do cutting off n its better for the tree
Man up here in Washington State I had one of the best tomato years! I'm still getting them. On the other hand the cucumbers and squash struggled.
Thank You 🙏🏽 😎 🌀 🇺🇸
Did you not water the garden
You gain more vegetables in the long run
Call it an "Undocumented Garden" and they won't come after you.
It's October 12th at 8:15 in the morning and we're finally getting a little rain after 6 weeks Southern Missouri and my ground is like a rock 🪨 this will help
This year I planted purple tomatoes a heritage and they did horrible 😢 BUT I had cherry tomatoes that sprouted up all by themselves from last year and they did great 😊 go figure had a terrible peppers but planted squash in straw bales this year and I have e ou acorn and butternut for the year from 6 plants 😮, crazy year
Tough year here! Blight took out nearly all my potatoes, and deer and armadillos took out almost everything out. Planning and prepping for a better next year👍
This year was tough for us as well but for opposite reasons. Cold and it rained constantly. We flooded a few times. I frequently wished I could send the rain to the folks who needed it.
Figs are delicious … As a Faithful organic grower i'm concerned about some hay that may have Grazon sprayed on it… comes out in the manure and kills broadleaf plants.
here's a guy splainin.
https://youtu.be/lcSdF17Mnjg
Hope your Tabernacles observance is rockin…