by John Johnson | Aug 2, 2021 | Food Forest, Videos
We grow a bunch of comfrey in our urban homestead food forest. They grow very well in our climate with no watering necessary and with the variety they do not spread by seed or run super far, it stays clumped up where we plant it. It is an excellent source of flowers...
by John Johnson | Jul 30, 2021 | Food Forest, Growing Vegetables, Videos
Ladybugs Natural Aphid Killers I noticed a couple of days ago that there were several aphids around the Artichokes that were popping up. We plant artichokes in many of our fruit tree guilds as the pollinators love them. I could have come through and sprayed them with...
by John Johnson | Jul 30, 2021 | Food Forest, Videos
Enjoying our first garden oyster mushroom harvest. Mushrooms are an excellent option for urban homesteaders looking to maximize the potential of their food forest gardens. We planted mushrooms in buckets of straw and directly into the wood chip mulch around plants in...
by John Johnson | Jul 29, 2021 | Community Garden, Growing Vegetables, Videos
Today we harvested the first round of snow peas and some of the broccoli that we planted earlier this year in our community garden plot. We love planting late winter crops such as these and getting to enjoy the harvest in early spring. We have sugar snap peas, Oregon...
by John Johnson | Jul 29, 2021 | Food Forest, fruit trees, Videos
I tried a couple of different grafts of European pears to the quince trees in the backyard food forest and had limited success. This graft took though and I think will work out well even though it is a little ugly, the branch is growing well. I am going to try and...
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