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RE: Garden Update 11-17-2018

in #gardening6 years ago

Eventually we will build a home from scratch... for now a bit od pre-fab timber frame may be what we start with! Just wrote a post about that 😁.

Last year all we had were tomatoes. I'm trying to breed tomatoes to be more self-reliant. Training them to search for their own water and minerals over several generations. But next year I would lile to have most of our veggies growing.

We like kale, sweet patato, corn, cucumber, beens, lettuce, beets, radishes.... who knows we may not have the time to do a very big one this year either!

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That sounds like fun, breeding tomatoes for resiliency. I love fresh tomatoes. I had some growing this summer but they got some kind of blight disease and I had to remove them. They were also being attacked by a lot of thrips. I will be planting more marigolds with the tomatoes to help deter them if I do tomatoes again. I read that marigolds are good at repelling thrips.

Do you know about growing corn, beans, and squash together? It is what the original people of america grew together for more abundant crop in a smaller space since the plants work together. I am into companion gardening, as you can see.

Ah the three sisters!!! The original permaculture way. I do know about it, but never did it... not yet!

Thanks for the tip on mearigolds

Yeah, and they'd bury some fish guts with it too. 😉

That would make a good place to bury fish guts, of course they knew about permaculture!

I wonder what it was like when the first person figured out that fish guts were great for planting vegetables. Was it an accident? Imagine explaining to the tribe, hey, lets bury this garbage with our food.