How Do You Clean Your Harvest?

Harvesting your produce is fun and easy but the cleaning and preparing part is time consuming. I had a wonderful harvest this morning but it took me a while to clean, soak, dry and chop, etc.

I use GSE (grapefruit seed extract) to help clean my produce.…

Harvest Time!

This morning was cool and cloudy. Perfect day to harvest! Then it turned cold and rainy by the end.

Lemon Balm
Mustard Greens
Chocolate Mint, Peppermint, Lime Mint, Spearmint, Apple Mint, Orange Mint, Strawberry Mint, Chives
Curly Kale
Dinosaure Kale
Baby Bok Choy
Bolted Spinach, Lemon and Genovese Basil, Collard Greens

It has been a challenging growing season this year.…

Wet Snow Storm

Last night I brought all my starts in and covered all my raised beds. It was going to get to 38° or so and it called for snow. Well we got wet heavy snow! I know this happened to me in 2017.…

Strawberry Update #2

YES YES YES!!!! I planted the strawberries today!

Got my grid up. I just wrap yarn around screws to make my grid. CHEAP!!!
I loosed up the soil and sprinkled some MycoStim powder in it to help with transplant shock.

This is my first time using this powder.…

Growing Flowers

I have no knowledge when it comes to growing flowers. This year is the first time I started flowers from seed. It was so exciting to see them break through the soil. I usually just buy them from a greenhouse and plant them throughout the garden.…

2020 Garden Update #3

A lot has happened in a month…

STRAWBERRIES

Before: (April 20th) transplanted Strawberries.
Ozark Beauty Variety
After: (May 11th) I lost a few but still have 30+ growing strong.

GROW ROOM

Turned the pantry into a grow room!
Another growing area.

2020 Garden Update #2

Josh, the kids and I did a lot of yard and garden prepping the last few days.

We only have 11 of the 15 raised beds made. These are from my old garden from 2017.
Kids help with this planting area.