New Compost Bin

Last weekend I was getting kind of sick of our composting system (piling up compost behind the garden and blocking it off with skids so that Puck won’t eat it), and so...
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Root Crops

Flowering Onion (click for a close-up) We’ve never had much luck growing onions or other root crops. In Morris, our soil was too heavy, and root crops were leafy at best. We...
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Compost!

Last year, we amended our new, sandy garden with seven pickup truck loads of compost from the Free Compost Site in our county. Since then, the truck was sold for $300 (it...
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Wider Paths

This morning we worked some composted manure, kelp meal, and our regular compost into the beds in the back yard. I think we officially have “raised beds” now – even after all...
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