by John Johnson | Jul 15, 2021 | Ducks, Videos
The duck snack for today was an old head of butter lettuce that has started to bolt. As the spring turns to summer we like to feed our welsh harlequin ducks snacks from the garden that we are not going to eat ourselves. Instead of just composting this bolting plant,...
by John Johnson | Jul 15, 2021 | Community Garden, Growing Vegetables, Videos
We were harvesting and drying the sweet onions today grown in the community garden plot. The sweet onions that we grew this year were Walla Walla and Alisa Craigs. Both of these varieties get very large and are excellent for making onions rings and for slicing to...
by John Johnson | Jul 14, 2021 | Food Forest, Videos
Do like to grow artichokes? Consider letting your artichokes go to flower in your food forest garden to help bees and other pollinators. We allow the majority of our artichokes to flower. An artichoke produces huge beautiful purple flowers. Consequently, if you let...
by John Johnson | Jul 14, 2021 | Growing Vegetables, Videos
Our little toddler loves yummy taters and he helped with part of our potato harvest this year. We grow potatoes in a variety of methods. These were a few extra seed potatoes of a red potato variety and Yukon golds that we had after planting our main rows. We tossed...
by John Johnson | Jul 14, 2021 | Growing Vegetables, Videos
We planted a large raised garden bed full of garlic last October. This is our entire year’s supply of garlic. We feed the plants a couple of times during the growing season and kept them watered. We have harvested all of the garlic scapes and it’s time to...
by John Johnson | Jul 14, 2021 | Community Garden, Videos
We harvested a part of a row of potatoes at our community garden plot. This was a mix of dark Norlund red potatoes and Yukon Gold potatoes. We will pull up the rest of the row the next time we back at our plot and have room in the bucket. Potatoes are a great crop to...
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