Urban Farmer, Will Allen Grows One Million Pounds of Food in the Dead of Winter. On just 3 acres they are producing 1,000,000 pounds of food each year!
How are they doing this? -10,000 fish -300-500 yards worm compost -3 acres of land in green houses -Growing all year using heat from compost piles -Using vertical space A packed greenhouse produces a crop value of $5 Square Foot! ($200,000/acre). Now, just to be clear I am not growing power or Will Allen. Growing power depends on and runs on the HUGE amounts of compost they make from food waste that is taken from the city. My personal experience is that growing 7 pounds of food per square foot in a year is not that hard to do especially if you grow year around. I personally use a 12 foot diameter round pond 2.5 feet deep to grow annually 300+ pounds of fish in an aquaponic system and the bulk of my produce is grown using the biointensive method, in the ground, which is watered from the nitrogen rich fish water.
How to Grow Garlic. Did you know that one clove or bulb of garlic, when planted, can produce up to an additional twenty cloves?
So instead of tossing out your garlic that’s started to sprout, plant it instead! Simply plant garlic cloves individually. How to grow a lemon tree from seed. When life gives you lemons, grow trees!
If you’ve ever seen a flowering lemon tree, you’ll understand why. For those of you who haven’t, allow me explain. Their lush, dark green, oval leaves have a glossy texture that shimmers in sunlight. Their delicate white flowers bloom with a citrus fragrance and are soft to the touch. Their exotic nature provides an alluring quality. Typically, lemon trees flourish outdoors year-round in hot, sunny regions, but they can also thrive indoors as edible houseplants in cold-season climates.
This is the little tree with big fruit in the shop I work at. The Easiest Vegetables to Grow. Let’s face it: Some crops are just easier to grow than others.
If you’re new to growing food, you might want to keep it simple and stick with options that are sure to leave you feeling successful at the end of your first official growing season. These options offer great odds and are some of the easiest vegetables to grow. Unless otherwise noted, these crops can easily be direct seeded in the garden. Cool season veggies can generally be planted in Spring as soon as the soil can be worked and again in the Fall. They don’t do so well during the hot months of Summer. Radish: They sprout easily and quickly, and can be harvested in just three to four weeks. Arugula: This spicy green grows easily in pots. Snow pea and/or sugar snap pea: Snow peas have edible pods and should be harvested just as you can see the seeds forming inside for the most tender crop. Swiss chard: Grown for both its greens and the stalks, Swiss chard is easy to grow and it can be continuously harvested for months.
Domestic Bliss Squared: tips for re-growing green onions from scraps. I've been re-growing green onions from scraps on my window sill for about a year now, since I first saw on Pinterest that it could be done.
I loooooooove green onions! It literally is not worth eating a baked potato without them for me, so I like to have them fresh and handy at all times. And the Dude is already demonstrating similar tastes, as they are one of his favorite things to eat straight! Cut up green onions? Dude is happy for 15 minutes in his high chair. And I admit it, I'm cheap! There is definitely a knack to getting them to grow again, though, and I've learned a bit in the last year about coaxing them back into growth. At first I had a kitchen with no windows, and I grew them behind the sink. 1. 2. 3. 4.
The other problem with re-growing green onions from scraps is that they don't last forever if you simply put them in water alone. Starting a Vegetable Garden, Starting a Garden. Starting a vegetable garden is exhilarating, but daunting at the same time.
Think of all the things you can grow! Fresh, vine-ripe tomatoes…salads that melt in your mouth…crisp, sweet carrots, straight from the earth. Imagine yourself surrounded by lush green leaves, red orbs of vine-ripe tomatoes beckoning your hand to pick them…hummingbirds and butterflies visiting flowers all around you. Makes you want to jump right in, roll up your sleeves, and get started! But then you think about the details, all the things you need to do, all the things that could go wrong to doom the whole project… ...and it gets put off again until next spring. Worry about the details of starting a garden for now, not the details of running one.
I’ve had a plot at a community garden and taught classes and workshops on organic gardening for years, and I’ve seen beginning gardeners make the same mistakes over and over again.