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Wisconsin is a nice vacation state, especially for outdoor activities, if you can handle the mosquitoes, probably why I never leave, that and cheese.
You are being quite industrious, I have to wait, we have about 6 inches of snow on the ground today. I planted my onions a few days ago and all my cold crops. Potatoes will have to wait a few weeks yet, the tops will freeze.
Last year we ripped out all our strawberries and am replacing them with a different variety, can't remember the name though, the ones we had would have lots of berries but we're smaller, I originally planted them about 18 years ago, so time for something different.
I practice a no till garden with under tones of the lasagna gardening. I tried that initially, but it didn't work to well and took many years to get my gardens good. Two years later there still was newspaper under my flowers. We modified the technique by initially digging out the sod and breaking up the ground so that the improvements could get into the existing soil better. Now I just add stuff on top throughput the season, grass clippings, leaves, composted manure, and compost. The worms integrate it into the beds and feed the plants. We got rid of the rototiller.
I also practice intensive planting and multiple crops finishing up with my squash to shade out the fall weeds. My vegetable garden is roughly 15x30 feet and I get a lot of produce out of it.
My potatoes are grown in plastic half barrels without bottoms, I put my tomatoes out up to a month early by using Kozy Kotes, or water walls, so I'm eating tomatoes before everyone else. I haven't tried it in containers before, but maybe in the future.
We haven't tried growing corn for many years, this year we were going to give it another try out in the field, it takes up more room than I had, so no advice there, we shall see if I get tiny corn too, I think it requires lots of fertilizer, from what I remember from my farming days, but I'm going to try organic.
Garlic is like a weed in my garden, it pops up everywhere, and I use as my indicator for planting my cold crops. I think it needs the winter chilling to form bulbs, but you will find out, worse case scenario is you have giant cloves.
We are trying different versions of raised beds to find what works, I want to buy some 100 gallon plastic water troughs to plant my green beans in, I'm tired of my back hurting when I pick it, than I keep pulling parts of the plants off.
I am not enjoying the nonbendable years, I have arthritis, two artificial shoulders, juvenile diabetes, and two bouts with cancer that has left both me and my gardens a bit messed up in the last couple of years. My husband has been trying to do whatever he can to help, I point at it and he does it. I hope to be able to get more done this year and to get stuff straightened out.
You are being quite industrious, I have to wait, we have about 6 inches of snow on the ground today. I planted my onions a few days ago and all my cold crops. Potatoes will have to wait a few weeks yet, the tops will freeze.
Last year we ripped out all our strawberries and am replacing them with a different variety, can't remember the name though, the ones we had would have lots of berries but we're smaller, I originally planted them about 18 years ago, so time for something different.
I practice a no till garden with under tones of the lasagna gardening. I tried that initially, but it didn't work to well and took many years to get my gardens good. Two years later there still was newspaper under my flowers. We modified the technique by initially digging out the sod and breaking up the ground so that the improvements could get into the existing soil better. Now I just add stuff on top throughput the season, grass clippings, leaves, composted manure, and compost. The worms integrate it into the beds and feed the plants. We got rid of the rototiller.
I also practice intensive planting and multiple crops finishing up with my squash to shade out the fall weeds. My vegetable garden is roughly 15x30 feet and I get a lot of produce out of it.
My potatoes are grown in plastic half barrels without bottoms, I put my tomatoes out up to a month early by using Kozy Kotes, or water walls, so I'm eating tomatoes before everyone else. I haven't tried it in containers before, but maybe in the future.
We haven't tried growing corn for many years, this year we were going to give it another try out in the field, it takes up more room than I had, so no advice there, we shall see if I get tiny corn too, I think it requires lots of fertilizer, from what I remember from my farming days, but I'm going to try organic.
Garlic is like a weed in my garden, it pops up everywhere, and I use as my indicator for planting my cold crops. I think it needs the winter chilling to form bulbs, but you will find out, worse case scenario is you have giant cloves.
We are trying different versions of raised beds to find what works, I want to buy some 100 gallon plastic water troughs to plant my green beans in, I'm tired of my back hurting when I pick it, than I keep pulling parts of the plants off.
I am not enjoying the nonbendable years, I have arthritis, two artificial shoulders, juvenile diabetes, and two bouts with cancer that has left both me and my gardens a bit messed up in the last couple of years. My husband has been trying to do whatever he can to help, I point at it and he does it. I hope to be able to get more done this year and to get stuff straightened out.
