A sustainable approach to farming
Know where your food comes from, and the person who grows it. Local food keeps your money in your community, instead of sending it off to corporate growers using cheap labor. And sustainable agricultural produces more nutritious food. Ohioans shouldn’t have to buy food from thousands of miles away.
Vacations bring the weeds
At the end of July I was out of town for a week. Well worth it, but the garden is now a jungle. I think every August this happens. Eventually you can’t outrun the weeds. Even with the minimal tillage I try to do. Next year I am definitely using landscape fabric in the tunnels.…
Grainy footage
The small wheat plot finally matured. I harvested it again, though I still have a bucket of seeds from last year I haven’t done anything with. I don’t have a good method for harvesting, because I don’t have any machinery to do most of the threshing then winnowing. This time, I use a scythe to…
Updates are hard
I keep taking pictures but posting anything here. With a new daughter in the picture, time trying to grow everything is at an all time low, plus the other kids who are winning lots and lots of coach pitch baseball games. But some stuff is still growing. Its a weedy mess now that the drought…
A better way to tie down plastic on a caterpillar tunnel
Most caterpillar tunnel providers give you a long spool of nylon rope. Then you tie it off at one carabiner, then loop it over to the otherside , one bow forward, then back other so you are two bows ahead on the side you started on, and so on. Until you get all the way…
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Wind bad
The wind last Saturday was not very helpful, and it managed to take off a good part of the plastic on one of the caterpillar tunnels. It was flapping pretty badly and I got a rope over it, but in the end I didn’t want to risk the plastic ripping, so with the help of…
Destroying the weeds
Last week it was dry enough I tilled the beds in the tunnels. They were very weedy already, and throughout the winter the tarps don’t really kill the weeds. I assume because the plants go dormant. They don’t look great but aren’t dead, either. So I did a shallow till to chop them up and…