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Well, not really well right now without any rain! But we got some stuff going.
So this year we planted...
Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Onions, Potatoes, Carrots, Lettuce, Spinach, Squash, Zucchini, Cucumbers, Jalepenoes, two kinds of tomatoes, and corn!
We also have 3 new very poor apple trees, a nectarine, almost dead plum (got something wrong with it, got a good spray ideas?), great pear tree, dozens of peach trees that naturalized on the hillside, and my strawberry garden.
We used to do a 5,000 square foot garden when we lived down by the river. Had an artesian well. Now we can hardly keep the horses watered! So we downsized, BIG TIME! Plus I got tired processing all the produce with no help, but thats another story! Please show your gardens!!!

The garden!

Pulled up all but a few of the squash, had 20 plants in that dirt area.

Anyone need green beans? LOL!

Strawberry bed, and a poor little grape vine I've been trying to grow FOR 5 YEARS! It's survived horses and a transplant, then got eaten to a nub by the pygmies, now it's got the green light! Grow baby grow!


Man I need RAIN! Hope yours is doing well!
 
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Wow, nice garden...amazing califlower. I would be so red in the face if you saw my pathetic little potato and tomato "patch". No pics from me! I don't even have a tomato, yet!

>>>running from computer screen, screaming for hubby...I want a nice garden patch, tooooo! sniffle<<<<
 
#4 ·
Checked a gardening thread and scored 5 carrots! Thanks Fly! :)

I do a pretty good sized garden (probably 3/4 of an acre) with my mom. We're growing sweet corn, peas (snow & snap), green beans, carrots, kohlrabi, green peppers, jalapenos, 3 different tomatoes (paste, juice, sandwich) brussel sprouts (ick - only my dad eats them), onions, gold & red potatoes, sweet potatoes, eggplant, zucchini, cucumbers, cantaloupe, watermelon & honeydew.

Then there's the herb garden with rosemary, thyme, basil, oregano & spearmint. Also do asparagus but it's gone to seed now :-(

At my house we have a big strawberry bed and 2 bartlett pear trees.

I, too have been watering. We really need some rain but between the horse manure fertilizer and the soaker hoses, it's doing pretty well. I have a stock tank for "manure tea" but no rainwater to fill it. Won't be long and I'll be cussing how many green beans I have to snap and can. :lol:
 
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Ok, lets see if I can remember what I planted/am currently putting in-
broccoli, purple and green cauliflower, onions, 4 types of lettuce, 6 types of garlic, swiss chard, 4 types of potatoes, carrots, spinach, all kinds of squash, yellow and green zucchini, beans, melons, peas, pumpkins, um can't remember what else... but there are some I'm forgetting.

I also grow some herbs- 5 different basils, 3 different thymes, oregano, parsley, sage, marjoram, bee balm, tarragon, lemon balm, mint, lavender and a couple of other things.

And instead of a traditional orchard I worked the trees and bushes into the landscape design... apples (had 2 matures already here) cherry, peach, plum, pear, blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, and grape. I plan to now add some of the more uncommon things like elderberry, gooseberry, mulberry, pawpaw, and a few others.

Anyway, it is a work in progress.


One of the gardens-

Natural landscape Vegetation Nature Nature reserve Garden


ripening blueberry (Oh.. hurry hurry pretty berries!)

Plant Flower Fruit Blueberry Food


purple cauliflower, which is quite tasty-

Cauliflower Cruciferous vegetables Vegetable Leaf vegetable Flower


young catawba grapes

Leaf Plant Flower Grapevine family Flowering plant


lavender

Flowering plant Flower Plant Lavender Grass


buttercrunch lettuce

Plant Flower Groundcover Herb Flowering plant


almost ready onions mixed with carrots

Plant Grass Grass family Flower Leaf


spinach with red lettuce in the background

Flower Flowering plant Plant Vegetable Herb
 
#7 ·
Lockwood I am GREEN and PURPLE with ENVY!
My little dehydrated garden looks so poor next to yours! It is STUNNING! So envious of your blueberries, ours are new and very pathetic! Those grapes are lovely!

We did have all the cool weather stuff, long gone now. I haven't had rain in four weeks, and there isn't any on the way. I'm actually sump pumping water out of our old hand dug well and then moving the soaker hose around 20 times a day! There isn't enough pressure to run more than one at a time, hilarious!
We've only been here for two years so there is MUCH work to be done, how do ya like that paint job on the barns??? LOL! Can't decide if I want to go brown or green...

Where did you order your purple cauliflower?!?! I love it! What little girl wouldn't eat purple veggies?! I've always wanted the pretty (nutritious) varieties but my DH thinks it's a waste of space, he's a purest. Just you wait, next year we'll be growing a rainbow, even if I have to freak him out and switch the plants at night!

WOW MHF, 3/4 of an acre! I'd go crazy! I've let the weeds go a bit nuts, I'm about to throw up my hands on this one. Does your grass look like mine? How embarrassing! We quit mowing because the dust is so bad. I've never done manure tea, saw it on Martha Stewart and I've been dying to try it! We use organic mushroom compost, goat poop, and there's a little horse in there. We'll be adding chicken litter in the fall.
Oh, I want a bucket of your snow peas! My favorite! Got too hot too early for them here. In the fall... Cuss a blue streak when snappin, I'll be cussin with you!


Ugh, my pictures look ick. We even had to start haying the horses this week. :(
I swear my yard usually has nice grass! And it's usually weed eaten too!
Guess I should have looked at that before posting. Missy, get those picts up, I can't be the only gardner of SHAME compared to ^^^THAT^^^!
 
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#8 ·
It's not too bad, we've downsized a bit actually. My sister doesn't have time to help this year so we did less. We also leave enough space between rows that we can drive the cub w/the tiller between, then we only have to weed right around the plants. It's a lot of work to can it all but it saves a good chunk of money on groceries. Couldn't tell you the last time I bought canned veggies from the store.

Manure tea is awesome (when you get rain). We took the big kitty litter buckets and cut holes in them with a hole saw, then stapled mesh screen over the holes, fill with manure and let it soak. We use the plastic rubbermaid tanks - they have a drain spout that a hose fits on.

Sadly, our grass is getting brown & crunchy. Haven't mowed in almost 2 weeks :( I'm not wasting water on my lawn, I am watering our smaller pastures though. We've still got plenty of pasture grass but if we don't get some darn rain, I might cry. Lol.
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#9 ·
We only grow stuff that we like preserved or will last in storage. So garlic, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, green peppers, beans, peas, pumpkins, zuchinni, as well as blue berries, rhubarb, and hopefully wild black berries, and plans for another kind of berry but can't decided what kind.

The garden is only 10 by 30 feet big, but we usually get enough stuff to make dozens of breads, pies, muffins, tomato sauce, garlic paste, and more for usually into the winter. The potatoes and onions and whatever garlic isn't turned into paste are stored in our basement.
 
#10 ·
Great idea for a thread. As some of you know I am an avid member of "The Easy Garden" forum, too. I've harvested lettuce, radishes, sugar snap peas, Little Marvel peas, potatoes, beets, onions and spinach (planted last FAll) so far this year, along with a couple of turnips. I got into raised beds a few years back. I've been actively studying gardening for about 3-4 years now. My beds don't look garden-magazine pretty, BUT, I've learned a few things about avoiding monocultures, mulching, severe composting, double digging and companion planting.
Here are some pictures:
2011, eight garden beds after tilling

I spent one month after my DD's April 2, 2011 wedding, double digging 4 of my beds. I ran out of 2011 Spring "window" to do the other 4, SO...they'll have to wait until after this year's harvest. Here is the article that tells you how and why to do this, and the great advantages are that you do the work ONCE, add compost regularly and always have a deep bed that nobody compresses. My "raised beds" are double dug about 30 inches deep, below ground level, and run ~3 1/2' x 12'.
G6985 Raised-Bed Gardening | University of Missouri Extension
 
#23 ·
Great idea for a thread. As some of you know I am an avid member of "The Easy Garden" forum, too. I've harvested lettuce, radishes, sugar snap peas, Little Marvel peas, potatoes, beets, onions and spinach (planted last FAll) so far this year, along with a couple of turnips. I got into raised beds a few years back. I've been actively studying gardening for about 3-4 years now. My beds don't look garden-magazine pretty, BUT, I've learned a few things about avoiding monocultures, mulching, severe composting, double digging and companion planting.
Here are some pictures:
2011, eight garden beds after tilling

I spent one month after my DD's April 2, 2011 wedding, double digging 4 of my beds. I ran out of 2011 Spring "window" to do the other 4, SO...they'll have to wait until after this year's harvest. Here is the article that tells you how and why to do this, and the great advantages are that you do the work ONCE, add compost regularly and always have a deep bed that nobody compresses. My "raised beds" are double dug about 30 inches deep, below ground level, and run ~3 1/2' x 12'.
G6985 Raised-Bed Gardening | University of Missouri Extension
RE: bolded part- You GO girl!

We are like minded. I've put in many hours of study and research too. I'm too lazy to double dig, but I can sure pile stuff upreal well, so I decided to go the layered route. I have only certain walk areas in the established gardens and some of my beds are raised too. Whenever I expand or put in a new flower bed it sits about 2' high unitl it "cooks" down to about 6" to equal my raised bed.
In the winter everything that isn't planted gets topped again and I add compost too.
 
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2012 Grapes

I thought I lost my grapes for the year but would have a good crop of my other fruit. INSTEAD, I lost all my apples (4 trees), all my pears (2 trees), all my peaches (1 tree), and most of my Montmorency cherries (2 trees.) I have possibly the best grape crop this year EVER--go figure. This is what it looked like after 2 frosts in April.

THIS is what it looked like last week.

 
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I thought I lost my grapes for the year but would have a good crop of my other fruit. INSTEAD, I lost all my apples (4 trees), all my pears (2 trees), all my peaches (1 tree), and most of my Montmorency cherries (2 trees.) I have possibly the best grape crop this year EVER--go figure. This is what it looked like after 2 frosts in April.

THIS is what it looked like last week.
Same thing happened to my grapes and tree blossoms this year too. Grapes survived and came back but the fruit trees are pretty sparse this year
 
#12 ·
Going to Seed

I have 2011 onions going to seed.

I have 2 Brussel Sprouts that survived the mild winter going to seed, too.

I HATE, HATE, HATE to mow next to any building and I HATE, HATE, HATE string trimmers. You use them for 5 minutes and then spend the next 55 minutes re-stringing them. (******* STRING TRIMMERS!!!!)
So, my solution is to make garden flower/herb beds alongside my house and garage so that I can mow easily. It's been worth all of the effort over the past 6 years to do this, and I'm almost done.
Here are the radishes that I planted to fill in the spaces between flowers on the west side of my garage. I love their flowers. They're fragrant, and it chokes out the weeds, plus you can harvest the numerous seeds for later planting.

 
#13 ·
Volunteers

I transplanted some 30-odd volunteer tomato plants--mostly cherry-- to fill in places where the weeds like to take over. One has fruit that will be red by this weekend, which is the earliest EVER at my place. Just in time for DH's birthday.
It's hard to see, but this bed is really for my newly planted asparagus. The sunflowers and cosmos behind, and the volunteer tomatoes in front as just companion plants.

I had to take out 8 arber vitae bush stumps to clear this bed.

Here's ALL EIGHT of them!

THAT's why it only looks 1/2 done. The right (east) side will fill in nicely this summer. The west and east sides are flanked by blackberry bushes, which are red and turning this week--TOTALLY num!

A month ago my clematis decided to explode around the blackberry bush. Biggest flowering ever, probably bc it likes it's roots really shaded.
 
#14 ·
Old Cattle Fencing

Along the street I have a section of the old fencing that I replaced around my 4 acres of horse pasture. It was hard to mow, too, so I've reclaimed it as a garden bed. I started 2 years ago, and happily discovered volunteer Potato plants in the inside. I've harvested 5 of them, and left the other 12 to develop bigger spuds. So far I've harvested about 30 pounds of potatoes, even though I could have left them in the ground a little longer.

I've had a great crop of sugar snap peas there.

Unfortunately, out of 100 seeds that I planted directly only one sweat pea survived. Next year I'm starting ALL peas inside...in January. They can go out mid-March and still do well.
 
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I had 1 really nice heirloom tomatoe-it was doing great-lots of blooms, but a cow (free-range) came in the yard & ate it during the night-right outside the bedroom window-while I was on vacation. hubby thinks it might come back, but I think it is too far gone. More than 2/3rds was chomped off.
 
#16 ·
Heirloom tomatoes taste fantastic, but they don't produce much. I recommend planting one or two or them, and also plant hybreds. I have one bed of beefsteak, and one bed of Romas. I have one volunteer Red Crim, an heirloom, in that bed, too.
I don't know about you'all but I think this will be an early tomato harvest.
 
#17 ·
Lovely Corporal! I was hoping you'd add yours!
Yep, early tomatoes. I've got HUGE beefsteaks and pulled two red ones already. My Romas are LOADED, no reds yet but it will only be another week.
Grow grapes grow! What a success! Did you do anything special to bring them back/help them grow? Other than compost and water?

I did sweet peas too! They are still alive but tiny, I bought two to grow on my balcony that got eaten by mice! I'll post a pict of my sad little flower garden. They say we have a 30% chance for rain the next two days!! Woo Hoo! I've only been able to water it once a week... Oh well!

LOVE your sunflower beds! That is a LOAD of work digging up those bushes, I'd have decorated the stumps and said THWI! I used to grow cabbage, squash, and strawberries in mine along with 4 O'Clocks, grandfathers whiskers, and sunflowers it was so lovely. Most of my beds by the house are in full shade now. :(
 
#18 ·
Lovely Corporal! I was hoping you'd add yours!
Yep, early tomatoes. I've got HUGE beefsteaks and pulled two red ones already. My Romas are LOADED, no reds yet but it will only be another week.
DH is THRILLED! We're planning meals based on tomatoes...with some, um..meat on the side, later this summer. =b
I did sweet peas too!
The edible peas have been watered to death. We've had a really dry Spring and they wouldn't have survived without it. I have enough online articles saved to my computer to fill a book, and several tell how to successfully start peas inside. I'll send you the links, if you'd like. =D
LOVE your sunflower beds! That is a LOAD of work digging up those bushes, I'd have decorated the stumps and said THWI! I used to grow cabbage, squash, and strawberries in mine along with 4 O'Clocks, grandfathers whiskers, and sunflowers it was so lovely. Most of my beds by the house are in full shade now. :(
ROFL!!! My garden forum friends told me to take a vacation after I finished that job. I started 4-o-clock's too, bc I understand that, though toxic (to cats and dogs and horses), Japanese Beetles will consume the leaves and fly off and die. I have mine in 2 hanging baskets, out of reach to my animals.
I also have 4 sweet corn beds, with squashes interplanted, and they are in between my fruit trees in my micro-orchard.
This is THE YEAR to be eating off of the land, IMO.
 
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I agree 1,000% I've put up over 150 lbs. of squash, zucchini, cauliflower, and broccoli. We are trying to get solar installed, if finances allow, to run the well and the freezer. Got a deer in there too. We'll see. Love how my grocery bill has gone down a bit with all the fresh produce!

Would LOVE any great links! I'm always learning. I like the NA approach to things, DH likes the traditional "must be in a row, must be STRAIGHT and TIDY!" Ugh. Oh well, he does the tillin! Do you have any good pasta sauce recipes? It's my goal to turn the Romas into ummm ummm spaghetti sauce!

Didn't get any snap/snow peas this spring, got too hot too early. Even the broccoli suffered, they shot off shoots with only a few heads but still got plenty. Didn't KNOW that about the 4 O's! I hate the beetles, I give my kid a bucket of soapy water and let her go to town! It's the larva that got my Plum, it's hanging on for dear life, do you know of any "good" pesticides for fruit trees or natural things to do around the roots? I LOVE that tree, I know it's at least 30 years old!

I was so hoping for a cool wet summer, I got the cool part, just not the wet! IT's starting to heat up but the humidity is low so thank Heavens!
 
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Wowie.. I'm behind here on posts. It's in the 90's today and humid so I have been busy hosing bellies to keep animals cool.

Ok everyone, are you sitting down and comfy? Good, here comes a novel....

FLY- OMG your cauliflower is beautiful!! So is the child.
I cannot for the life of me get good white cauliflower. One, I’m too lazy to tie up the leaves to blanch the heads, and two since I’m all organic the bugs eat them to bits before they are ready for picking.
I have to go green and purple if I want an actual head of cauliflower. The green tastes a lot like the white, but the purple is fab! I can’t remember if I ordered from Burgess or Jung’s seeds http://www.jungseed.com/, http://www.eburgess.com/
But Johnny’s is my favorite for hard to find stuff! http://www.johnnyseeds.com

I like your garden and think you have done quite a bit in only two years! You are much farther along that I was at two years. Your beans look terrific and I love the little building with the little rock beds around it. Is it a well house?
And don’t worry about the pics of your dry grass. Come August and September it will look much worse here, trust me.
One year it was so dry the alpacas pulled up the grass roots while trying to nibble, the earth was so scorched! I’ve still got bald spots from that year.

There was nothing at my place when I bought it but weeds. Not even a barn and I had hard clay and shale for dirt. Fun.
Thankfully alpaca poop is low in nitrogen and can be put in the garden almost immediately. It really added the organic matter that my soils lack, and I did what is called lasagna gardening because tilling here is a disaster. If it doesn’t break the tines on your tiller, then you might as well put out a neon sign for every nasty weed that exists to come live on the tilled dirt, because grass won’t survive, let alone a veggie! LOL

Yeah, very poor soil for most things. My area was heavily strip mined in the 80’s and the companies never replaced the topsoil. There are actually grants to have the top oil replaced, but the problem is that there isn’t any quality topsoil to be found here.

Anyway, I started really small with lots of layers of natural enhancement… alpaca poo, shredded paper, leaves, poo, grass clippings, some amendments I bought, and more poo! Took about two years to start resembling a rich humus type of dirt, but after that I was able to actually grow something. I just keep adding the layers and expanding as I go. Thank goodness I had the foresight to plant the trees the first summer I was here with some alpaca poo compost.

I don’t have drip irrigation, so when things are really dry I have go around in the mornings and evenings with the hose to give things a little drink until some drops fall. I can’t hook up anything because my well is not very strong and takes forever to refill if run down, so water has to be used sparingly.
Thankfully there is a natural spring about 3 miles away and I have been seen on many occasions hauling water in barrels.

Like your DH I used to not be into different varieties. I just stuck to the straightforward stuff. But when I started growing for farmer’s markets I needed to do something that set me apart a little bit. I mean I couldn’t charge more for the very same things so I experimented. The flavors and better growing ability actually surprised me and now I am a convert. Bok choi, yellow beans, purple beans, rainbow swiss chard, purple basil, red and yellow carrots, chiogga (bulls eye target striped) beets and anything that is unusual I will try.

And I have to admit, it sure looks pretty on my plate and that is important to me as in the deep of winter when we go for weeks or a whole month without seeing the sun (we have more cloudy days here than Portland, OR) I really need those colors to lift the gloom.

As for my pics… did ya notice only one was from a distance and the rest were very close up? Well that is for a reason. The far off one is the only one that looks good and isn’t crowded with weeds!!

Like Corporal I am allergic to weed eaters too! (Darn %*#*&#!#*^ things!!)
It has taken many years and some back breaking work to get the garden to where it is and I still have a long way to go.
Better Homes and Gardens are definitely not knocking on my door and I gave up the notion years ago that they ever would. Cause, you know… those magazines are only published to torment us and make us feel inadequate anyway. Just like most advertising.

What’s important is not HOW the garden looks, but WHAT it can Grow!! Pretty gardens are not always healthy gardens. :wink:
 
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I am ducks4you there...

Neem oil is the best thing to de-bug your fruit trees. It is derived from a plant that grows in India.
IMO, you should join TEG garden forum. There are some really good experts there.
The Easy Garden
Happy 2012 Summer Gardening!!
 
#25 ·
Corporal your flowers are gorgeous and I really like the layout of your beds. Sounds like you have put a lot of hard work into things and it shows in your pretty pics.

I’ve had potatoes winter over well and since last winter was mild, many of the tomatoes that hit to ground (and were forgotten about) are now my tomatoes this year. Which is good, because I didn’t have very good luck starting the seeds indoors this year.

I don’t have any ‘maters yet, but the flowers are just starting to bloom.
I’ve got the usuals, plus romas, beefsteaks, salads, cherry, and my favorites… yellows and oranges.

Thanks for the good links too!

Come on Missy, I want to see your garden. There is no right or wrong way to have a garden. As long as it produces food, then is a great garden!
I’ve killed my fair share of gardens with my black thumb and it has only been recently that I was able to start growing things well and garden like.

You know, one of the best things I did was buy a dehydrator. I don’t mean one of the rinky dink ones from wmart, but a big 9 tray monster.
Some of the food I grow is to barter to friends with for meat for the freezer, but the rest has to be put up and that is a whole lotta cannin’! While I do fill my freezer with veggies too, I find canning to be a difficult thing when there is only one of you in a very small kitchen, so I looked into drying and have to say it has been working very well for me.

My house is very small so shelf space is at a premium.
I can some of my tomatoes, but I cook and puree the rest then spread in the dehydrator. Tomoato leather or powder needs hardly any room to store. I can take 2 gallons of cooked tomatoes or sauce and reduce it down to about a 1 quart jar.

It is great to add into soups, stews, reconstitute for sauce, or sprinkle the dry flakes into homemade cheeses (my fav.)
I also dry herbs, fruits, many other veggies, and flowers too. Just love my dehydrator! Anyone else have one?
 
#26 ·
Lockwood, it sounds like YOU'VE put a lot of hard work into your whole yard!!
RE: various composting methods, there are so many that IMO you try the ones that are easiest for you and stick with them. I tried the lasagne layering, but it wasn't as easy for ME as the other things I'm doing, but my garden forum friends who do it swear by it.
Here's a book that I love that you might want to buy on clearance (published in 2007.)
Amazon.com: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (9780520258068): David R. Montgomery: Books
It would be an excellent winter read. The author is a little bit lefty-biased BUT his conclusions cannot be argued with. We are destroying our soil. BUT, when you have manure from horses, chickens, rabbits and alpacas, as you mentioned, and you add the "dry compost stuff", you can bring it back to life on your own property. The farmer's 50 acres behind me are in corn the 3rd year in a row, and the nitrogen fertilizer gets my DH sick every spring. I use almost NO herbicides and insecticides on my 5 acres, thank you very much!
 
#27 ·
No! No pics from me...I get anxiety when I am utterly and completely humilitated. :) I don't have a garden...its a "patch" of dirt raised above the rockbed ground. I am still crying over garden envy!

I spent many of my summers growing up in NC w family - they had/have garden's like you all's....ones that look like someone painted them into the scenery. Ugh. Its hard to do in the high desert. You can in the valley, but not w this ^^pics^^ type of variety and yield. Purple cauliflower...hmph. Who needs it? I like pickled cactus ears just fine!!

I do have worm castings out the yin-yang, though. To bad you guys aren't close...they will make anything grow.

Minor "positive", I don't have grass to mow! ha!
 
#28 ·
Lockwood, I was in the same boat.
When we found this farm I fell in love, but the amount of work it's taken to get things up to snuff has completely exausted me.

It was started in 1900 by two brothers who cleared the mountain top and started a tomato farm. So we actually have good soil! Which is SHOCKING for the top of an Arkansas hill. They cleared all the rocks off and built fences with them which are mostly standing today, and helping to keep the horses in!

The house was a complete mess. It hadn't been touched in over 30 years, not lived in for 10. So it took us an entire year to gut and rehab the inside. We still have tons of work to do, missing some trim and still don't have kitchen doors, but whatever. I absolutely ADORE it, it's like it was made for us. Two bedrooms, a huge long kitchen, two bathrooms (kid got the master LOL!), rock floors, and I think there are hardwood floors in half of it but budget wouldn't allow risking tearing up the nice subfloors and "discovering" what was underneath! So we did cheap wood laminate stuff for now.

We scoured the yard and found what seems to be the old garden plot, hence nice soil, NOT A SINGLE ROCK!! So we ammended as much as possible, like you we are 100% organic, no pesticides. Rotate the crops and pile on new compost over the entire thing. It'll get there. "Problem" I'm having is the second owner was a major gardner and her flowers pop up everywhere in the yard and garden! Morning glories and some other ground cover infiltrated it, I kinda let it go because it's so pretty! The holly hocks you see are reclaimed from the yard, poor things kept getting mowed!
So funny you said that about the close ups! I was thinking DARN, when I saw those!

Our main well is so yummy, I've never had better water, but like yours it's sparse. It's only 135 ft. deep and the bottom of it is at 2,300+ feet! So our mountain and rain water is the only source. That building I posted is a smoke house/cellar/storm shelter. I've been in it once! It is in terrible shape. Not high on my list of priorities, but someday I want to get it going again. There is a hand dug well/building next to it that I've been pumping water out of, it's incredibly deep, but I haven't measured it yet.

I've used a dehydrator before but it was a cheapie from WM. I'll look into that because I use tons of tomato paste in our food. Blanching is so cathartic for me, I love it! It took FOREVER to put that cauliflower up because of the worms, but I let them be, clean the tar out of it, slice it, clean it again, then blanch. WM only charges 98 cents for a bag of GV frozen Cauli, I'm nuts but I know it's better!

I didn't grow up gardening, so everything is new to me. I'm learning, slowly. My dream is to do the farmers market in Fayetteville AR, like you do! I do art and LOVE doing hand painted children's furniture so my dream would be to combine those two. All in good time!

Love getting to talk about this stuff! Thanks!

Thanks for the links too Corporal! I'm all over it.
 
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Come on Missy! Who cares, and YES I WILL TAKE 5 BAGS OF WORM POOP!
I've been thinking about having some rabbits because I heard worms will compost their poop and break it down into MAGIC SUPER GARDEN DUNG! LOL!

MHF??? Where the photos be?
 
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