Early Spring Outside Planting
I love early spring planting! You can’t plant just anything – the warm season crops still need to wait for the […]
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garden, kids, plants, potatoes, seeds, vegetablesI love early spring planting! You can’t plant just anything – the warm season crops still need to wait for the […]
Early Spring Outside Planting Read More »
garden, kids, plants, potatoes, seeds, vegetablesI’m excited to begin the design process at our new house and grateful for the blank slate yard that gives
Edible Groundcovers Read More »
design, garden, plants, potatoesMy first years of gardening really focused on the divas of the produce world: tomatoes, pepper, eggplant and melons. Those
The Case for Boring Vegetables Read More »
garden, potatoes, vegetablesSt Patrick’s Day is usually my cue that potatoes need to be planted. You can still get your spuds in
Planting Potatoes: The Double Dig Method Read More »
garden, potatoes, vegetablesAfter planting about 2-3 seed potatoes per tire and stacking them three tires high throughout the season, my end yield
Prolific Potato Tires Read More »
potatoesLast year I tried an experiment with growing potatoes in tires and it seemed to work okay. Of the five
Several months ago I began the experiment of growing potatoes in recycled tires. It seemed like a good, logical idea.
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potatoes, vegetablesThis summer I am trying out the method of intensively growing potatoes in old tires. I wrote about it back
Potato Tires: Final Stack Read More »
food forest, potatoes, vegetablesThis past winter I decided to try growing potatoes in tires. I have never grown potatoes before, mainly because it
Potato Tire Stacks: Progress Read More »
food forest, potatoesI can see how my routines look awfully strange to people sometimes. When I recap my weekend, for example, it’s
Typical Spring Evening Read More »
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