To those of you who responded to my email and last post, a big thank you. This blog takes more work to set up than people appreciate. It is self-programmed, not an “off the shelf” application like Wordpress.
There are so many things I wish to share, but this first, I think is important. In this crisis, our basic needs are important (some of you may know of Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs”) and one of them is food. That means a garden. Now if any of you own one, you’ll know there are many problems with being successful: Slugs! Frost! Winter! :) So to that end, I developed (for want of a grandiose term) a strategy to maximize yield and place fresh food on the table the year round. There are three aspects (“three shall be the number and the number shall be three”)
- An efficient veg garden during the post frost season. The most efficient it seems is the Square Foot Garden system, photographed above.
- During the colder months, it is necessary to provide heat for crops grown. Rather than use fossil fuels or electric, I decided to use decomposing horse manure! An ancient system of the Victorian era was used known as a “hot bed”. This will be the subject of another post.
- What does one grow after the last frost and before spring arrives? The answer to that is microgreens. This is something I have only begun to research and will be posting about that also soon.
So, if you have any input, drop a comment below this post using the “Disqus” system. I look forward to hearing from all of you!