Yeah I love deer in venison form… we have a problem with rabbits here tooHolySteel wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 10:34 amWell-done!
Things are moving along more slowly here in the PacNW. After the deer super-pruned our tomatoes and peppers last year, I moved the peppers into the fenced-off part of our yard. They'll eventually hop over and start eating again, but for now we are safe. The tallest ones are Paprika and Esplette. The short ones are Scotch Bonnets, which seldom produce here (not hot enough), but I keep trying. Perhaps this year.
Yes, that's a great garden. Reminds me of the gardens everyone in my Great-grandmother's neighborhood in north Louisiana had growing up. Their entire front yard, which was a quarter acre or so, was planted with yellow-neck squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, corn and purple hull peas. They traded for other things. The garden was gone by the time I was ten or so, and of course we didn't take photographs of such things. All the roads were red dirt and the houses looked like something out of a Faulkner novel - white wood framed, often with quirky personal designs.SaltyCaribbeanDfly wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 12:45 pmFarm to table, come on forumites show your goods…taking a break from Wimbledon and gonna cut the grass but I’ll check in later …keep em’ coming, it’s awesome
Who cares if it’s not beautiful, neither is mine but if it produces then that’s what counts…I have a good friend in Tennessee that fenced off a section of his pasture to keep the goats out and basically threw out some seed (well he lightly raked it and no-tilled some seed/small plants)…well there were weeds everywhere but I’ve never to this day seen anything that rivaled the production he got…I asked him what his secret was and he said “nothing really, just some chicken poop and rain I guess “ he didn’t care what it looked like and even said “she ain’t much to look at but she’s a good un “
I have not but would like to try…I’ve seen some videos on it and it’s crazy the yields…I do however have a pretty good compost pile built up by spring…I change and or add to existing soil each year and rotate crops…if I had more space I’d experiment more with it…next on my list is a drip system for irrigation…I’d sure like to hear your history with it and see some picsJoviAl wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 6:20 amDo any of you guys use permaculture methods to maximise your yields? I’ve planted a large section of my food forest at work using permaculture tenets for mutually supportive plants and it’s been a revelation - not only do they symbiotically support each other, but the soil quality seems to improving each year from a claggy tropical clay to more of a tilth.
