While it's fresh in your mind, what improvements will you make on next year's garden?

[lazy gardener]

I'm 5' 1.5" on a tall day. My favorite tool here is my little green 2 wheeled wheel barrow. I have a larger dump one, but the little green one is my "go to". Both are well balanced, and extremely easy to maneuver. Never, never, never buy a WB without taking it for a test drive.

 

[microchick]

Oh! I did that with my garden wagon. They had a demo. DH pulled it out and told me to pull it down the isle. I did and was sold. It also doubles as a wood hauler in the winter. One wagon load gives us a days worth of wood to burn in our fireplace. The big balloon tires roll easy, even in snow.

 

[lazy gardener]

In the winter, I use a kid's plastic toboggan to haul stuff. It's a bit tippy, so helpful to tie the load down, but it works well.

 

[microchick]

One word here. COLD! 10 degrees and holding since 7 AM. No way I'm letting the chickens into the run until that temp comes up. I'm about to head out to make sure they have food and fresh water but frankly, I'm not looking forward to it.

 

[chickadoodles]

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No our insurance does not even cover physical therapy sadly.
I am going to see a new Ortho Dr. on the 16th I hope he can help.

 

[chickadoodles]

It's very cold here for Alabama 27*. I love my garden wagon my dh got me. We both use it all the time.

 

[Arielle]

I went small this year simply because I was having a lot of back problems. I'm still having the problems but have a plan for next year. 1) bigger garden 2) plant sugar pumpkins for our use and the chickens, and 3) ignore the back pain as much as possible and when not possible use my prescription medication, go out and dig in the dirt, which I LOVE to do.

I had a lot of trouble with what garden I did plant. Beans didn't do well, carrots didn't do well, radishes were very hot. I think it was the weather in all honesty. We had a very wet spring and early summer. My apple trees got hit with fire blight, the peaches got hit by first the late frost and then what survived the frost got hit by the deer. The only thing I seemed to have an abundance of was blackberries and I think we picked over 50 pounds of them. I've made lots of jelly and jam and we even tried to make some wine which I have to admit came out pretty darned good.

I've got to figure out what caused my beans and root crops to fail. I'm thinking that on top of the wet weather soil quality has something to do with it. DH will be tilling compose from the coop into the soil for me. Hopefully that will help things along.

Low of 11 here tonight. I'm ready for spring already.

My mother cooked those hot radishes....became very mild. Often hot radishes is due to lack of water......

Nice berry crop!!!

Looks like you are on the right track....

 

[Arielle]

I've heard it said that Boron deficiency is often a problem for failed root crops. A very tiny bit goes a very long way, and it's super easy to poison your soil with it. So, I'm throwing this tid bit out for you to research. I'm thinking I might do a trial with a very tiny area this spring. I have a hard time with carrots and with beets. I grow fantastic radish. I'd suggest that you try a variety called French Breakfast. They are not sharp flavored at all. You need radish to grow fast in order for them to be tasty. They also do best in colder weather.

A few weeks ago, on a day the frost was (almost) out of the groound, my son harvested a big barrel of radishes. What a haul for early December!!! Yes, the radishes loved the cool fall weather with regular rains to p lump them up. ( It was the huge 4 inch type radish, great for slicing--sorry the name is eluding me.)

 

[Arielle]

It's very cold here for Alabama 27*. I love my garden wagon my dh got me. We both use it all the time.

CHristmas is coming. Maybe Santa will deliver a second one!!!!

 

[microchick]

CHristmas is coming. Maybe Santa will deliver a second one!!!!

I was just telling DH the other day that while I really LOVE our large garden wagon I would really like to get a second smaller one. I had just used our larger wagon to pull feed and water buckets up to the chicken coop after we had received a couple inches of snow. The big balloon tires on it are great but pulling the weight through the snow was pretty rough going. He agreed so a smaller wagon is on the get list. Not for Christmas but Valentine's day is coming up followed by wedding anniversary.

Arielle, I've never tried cooked radishes. I was wondering if with this particular variety it wasn't the fact that we had a particularly wet spring that year. The seeds were packaged with the discription of being mildly spicy.