Q and A: Cleaning Wallo’ Waters and Kale and Swiss chard
Cleaning Wallo’ Waters
I finally took your advice and bought some Wall-o-Waters this year and planted our tomatoes earlier than the recommended date. Actually I chickened out and only planted them 3 weeks early, but...
Our cover crops are doing great!
We planted cover crops in the orchard (wheat, a small strip of oats and alfalfa) and peas in the future strawberry bed in the new house garden. We did this to help...
When you live in the backwoods, you live by the weather
The first thing we do every morning is turn on our little weather radio to see what the coming weather is going to be (or do to us!). And by that, we plan our...
Will was busy while I was in Irving, Texas
While I was at the Self-Reliance Expo over the weekend, speaking and helping out at the Self-Reliance and Backwoods Home Magazine booth, Will kept busy. Not only did he set out 72 tomatoes inside Wall'O...
Will and Christian got the tomatoes planted
Last week, Will and Christian got all 52 tomatoes planted. Our big Bourbon Red tom turkey went down to "help." We trained Spencer not to go in the garden but the turkey's not so...