Vegetable Gardening @ the Vegetable Patch: manage your beds with crop rotation and keep pests and diseases at bay Looking for a safe organic way to keep pests and disease under control in your vegetable patch? One of the simplest ways is planting your vegetables based around crop rotation. Crop rotation is all about planting groups of similar vegetables together in a different part of the garden each year. It's important to do this because different crops like different soil conditions. The length of a rotation system can vary from 3 to 8 years. 4 year rotation Crop rotation is all about moving vegetable groups from one bed to another each year. The first bed starts off with a mixture of roots crops (carrots, parsnips and beetroot) and vegetables belonging to the allium family (onions, garlic and leeks). The timing for when you rotate each bed varies depending on the bed and your local conditions. 5 year rotation By now I hope you have a better understanding about how crop rotation works. 6 year rotation The 6 year rotation cycle splits the legumes from the brassicas so you plant: I love potatoes.
Although I am not a farmer now, I do hope to be someday | Start 2 Farm Chad Nordlum completed the Beginning Alaskan Growers School in 2011, the Advanced Alaskan Growers School in 2012 by distance using teleconference and printed materials. Chad plans to attend the 5-day Alaskan Growers School Experiential Learning Course at Calypso Farm and Ecology Center near Fairbanks, Alaska in July of 2012. "I am not a farmer. I grew up in Kotzebue, Alaska. Still, I did not begin gardening until I returned to Kotzebue nearly four years ago. Now that I realize that growing is possible, it only makes sense to produce as much produce as we can locally. What I hope to get from going to Calypso Farm is to gain knowledge of a working farm. My goals are to learn about a working, sustainable farm and to use that learning to continue to plan a sustainable for-profit farm in the Northwest Arctic. This project was supported by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA, Grant # 2010-49400-21719.
Tomato Dirt: growing tomatoes, gardening tips, tomato facts The most expensive vegetables in your vegetable garden 5.3 years ago cheap, cilantro, garlic bulbs, organic, seedling, seeds, vertical gardening, winter garden Many vegetables can be expensive to purchase by growing the most expensive vegetables in your garden and buying the least inexpensive vegetables at your grocery store you can easily help drop your food budget. This especially important for people like me with very limited space to grow everything that I consume. It may be impossible to put a price on the satisfaction of bringing in a basket of produce fresh from your garden. As well as the enhanced flavors from having truly fresh produce from your garden compared to that of your local supermarket. Though when I was harvesting my potatoes this summer with my daughter I did have the thought, Would it have been smarter for me to grow something else in this space? Sources: for plant yield information, for current produce prices Like this: Like Loading...
SULIS - Sustainable Urban Landscape Information Series: U of MN. Laundry to Landscape Graywater Systems; Design and Parts Complete information from the original inventors by Art Ludwig We originated the Laundry to Landscape Greywater System and published it unpatented into the public domain in 2008 for the good of all. This site has the most up-to-date, reliable, and complete information, and is the source of much of the info replicated on tens of thousands of other pages on "Laundry to Landscape." New Greywater Book and Video Set: The New Create an Oasis, Builder's Greywater Guide, Principles of Ecological Design, Laundry to Landscape instructional DVD $51.80 ($13 savings) Laundry to Landscape Instructional Video Produced by Art Ludwig, published by Oasis Design, 2010. 90 minutes DVD—$19.95 Soy ink color printed in a recycled cardboard case. Digital Download—$14.95 Choice of resolutions. The Laundry to Landscape system is the simplest, least expensive, lowest effort way to get the most greywater out on to the home landscape most effectively. Here's the way it looks in print: Laundry to Landscape (PDF 1mb).
beginner guide to growing chile peppers By Julian Livsey This guide is for anyone who has somehow hit on the idea that it would be fun to grow chile peppers. You haven't grown them before, perhaps you haven't really grown anything before. After a bit of research on the internet you are completely overwhelmed by the advice and information; not sure where to begin. thechileman website is not aimed at the prefessional growers, yet when we start talking in the guides about vermiculite and heated propagators it may make you wonder whether growing chile peppers is for you afterall. Seeds To grow your own chile peppers you first need seeds. Germination. This is probably the single most discussed stage of chile pepper growing and the one that offers the most opinions. It doesn't matter what you use to hold your soil. To get moisture to the seeds you need to water the surface of the soil. Sucessful germination Transplanting Chile plants generally produce sets of leaves in pairs. Feeding Flowering Fruiting
Branched drain with exposed pipes | Greywater Action Goals: To reduce water use and grow fruit. Site description: The plumbing from the shower is exposed in the unfinished laundry room downstairs. There is enough height to travel outside to the landscape. The yard is already planted with fruit trees, fruiting vines, and veggie beds. Fixtures and output: One shower that is used for about 10 minutes per day (2.5 gallons/minute X 10 min= 25 gallons). Cost: One 1 1/2" - 2" 3-way valve- $50, fittings-$50, pipe-$50: material total: $150 Old plumbingThe plumbing from the shower was exposed in this section of wall. installing the 3-way One section of cast iron pipe was removed. Labeled 3-way valveAfter the valve is connected with the couplings, it enables the shower water to either go to the sewer (the pipe going into the floor), or outside through the new section of pipe exiting in front of the valve. ABS pipe going out Pipes are buried and slopedOnce outside the greywater pipe is buried, sloping downward as it travels to the plants.
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