My last post was admittedly a bit very whiny in regards to my garden this year, so I though I would share with you something that did do well this year today to make up for it! A Big, Beautiful Bowl of Dent Corn! In addition to my square foot garden, which is usually my …
Happy Thursday! I’m continuing my list of favorite vegetable varieties today. Yesterday’s topic was the beautiful Calypso Bean, today we have another beautiful bean, the Cosse Violetta Pole Bean! This is another variety that I ordered last year from Annie’s Heirloom Seeds. It produced a prolific crop of tasty, beautiful purple “green” beans. The Violetta …
I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to get really antsy about getting my garden going for the year! We are currently making plans, preparing the beds, and making lists of which seeds we want to order and how much of each thing we want to plant! I figured while I was doing that, …
Would you care to take a trip down memory lane with me? I have a homesteading blog and I talk a lot about gardening. I figured some people might wonder just how long I’ve been gardening. The answer is a long, l o n g , time! This might look like Savannah, …
While I am talking about the row garden, I should mention our most effective method of organic pest control! Bug Control Patrol When the corn was about 3 feet tall, we moved our large chicken tractor into the corn patch, surrounded the whole thing with movable fencing, and released the chickens, guineas and ducks. What …
