Since building the fortress, I’ve learned some hard lessons here on the land. Per instance, gophers are not the only animals that think my garden bed is a all you can eat buffet. We also have deer and bunnies. As cute as all these creatures are…
insult to injury
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If you ever think you have no room to grow anything…
there is also the old door mounted cloth shoe holder you can convert to a little wall garden idea… hope your day went well
A while back I helped some friends set up a garden bed in their back yard. Paul, with his handy dandy iphone, set up a time lapse of the whole thing. Quite amusing, sadly we did not notice it getting darker so some of it is kinda dark in the middle. Oh well..
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I have never worried about cold weather before, nor about any animals eating my bounty. Those days are over… Now I live in an area with plant killing frost and gophers a plenty. In lieu of this, I have created the raise bed fortress.
Turn down the lights and queue the drums please:
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So, we’ve been very busy getting our new house to be our new home. There are thing here we’ve never dealt with. For example, mice. The little guys were getting in through all kinds of places. I’ve patched many holes so now they are not partying all night long as often.
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Ready Made Seed Bombs
Yesterday I went out to the garden to see how it’s all looking and saw that some of my potatoes were ready for the picking. I love this plant. All I do is buy them at the farmer’s market and when they’ve been around for to long and begin to sprout, I plant them. Mostly set it and forget it style. I could probably get more out of them if I watered and tended to their needs more, but this is so easy.
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Before all the drama, I had been giving my garden a facelift for a while. Now that we are moving out, I’m sad to say it’s not looking to good any more.
The mess before the storm
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Lamb’s Quaters or Goosefoot (Chenopodium Berlandieri):
This little known “weed” (to me at least) is of the same genus (closely related to) as Quinoa. It is part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex, a group of plants the Eastern Woodland Native Americans were foraging for as far back as 6,000 BCE. By 1,800 BCE they were cultivating/domesticating this and other plants.
The young plants are edible as baby greens in early summer, and till mid summer the tips of the plants. The leaves and nutritious seeds are also eaten. Here is some interesting historical information.
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