Local Harvest Gardening

I have only had a food garden the last two seasons. At least I started. I have learned a lot and was no till from the get go.(Thank you Charles Dowding) I hated separating all the little broadcast seedlings from the garden store starts which had 6 or so plants in each cell. I cried a little, brutali...

That you for all the links. Good to know. I have not looked into this. I have a forested back yard and we put down a ton of cedar mulch in our perennial garden beds to cover the soil and keep weeds down in the front yard. Now I have a lot of cedars coming up in the garden beds from the mulch and hav...

I want to build a cold frame to get starts going that won't get devoured by the slugs. Interesting to hear the challenges on teh wet coast though. I would not think that would be as much of a problem. What is the negative impact of humidity in lower temperatures? This summer I planted two types of t...

Well I will start this topic off with this if folks are not dialled on the soil food web yet. This NRCS website has some information that is free and can be accessed through the links in the left. I believe the images in the gallery are open to use too with a note to where they came from. Learnings ...

Thermophilic compost can be used as a mulch as it will be a weed free covering on the ground but you really need lots of it and it is like gold. The industrial, waste reduction compost is not so full of life and will be seed free and maybe a good mulch. I use good home grown compost initially and th...

Thanks for sharing your recipe. Where can you get the meal products? Also do you need to have so many additives if you have good aged thermophilic compost from a high diversity of materials in the recipe that has aged with worms overwinter? Also, with bio char, some local sources call it biochar but...

I am thinking about giving up my boulevard potato bed I started last year for bags too as I would like to keep them stored in the dirt once the plant has finished for slow harvesting over the winter months. I also need to try to utilize more space in my yard where permanent beds are not available bu...

Hello Anya. For a balcony garden, you might want to look into wicking beds. I built 4 for our small balcony to get more food growing and it has decent sun. Made them out of the 102 liter strongboxes from Home Depot. They hold 25 litres of water and maintain good moisture and come the heat of the sum...

Where are good sources fo Green for a winter compost pile? I use Bokashi for my domestic food scraps, I store fall leaves for mulch and compost in the spring and also build up woody debris from the branches that fall and are primed in the winter for chipping for paths and composting. My yard just do...

.... I've ordered the microbiometer mentioned in one of the videos and am very excited to test it to see how I've done when the time comes, but as of now, the pile's teaming with life. I have never tried the microbiometer but some notes of caution as the it reading the quality. I mention this becau...