Gardener started back in Massachusetts
I have been gardening off and on for 30 plus years now. Our current garden is located in Weavervile and I have a cedar greenhouse where I plant my starts in the early spring.
I prefer to garden organically and I compost all year long. I was inspired by Ruth Stout back in the 60's. Ruth gardened in a house dress long into her 80's and produced wonderful produce from her "no work" gardens to which she added rotten hay, leaves and all sorts of organic matter.
I have had the most luck recently with pumpkins, squash and tomatoes. Last summer, I planted pole beans along my garden fence and enjoyed the results. I had green beans, Italian beans and lima beans. Potatoes grow very well in my garden. I simply use organic potatoes and plant them in a heavy composted soil and then layer hay over them.
In the late fall, I put my garden to bed under a layer of horse manure, hay and a light sprinkling of lime. Then the rain and snow do all the work for me and distributte nutrients to the soil. I do not roto till my garden and I dig the soil with a shovel my hand. I do not like to disturb the balance of the soil and micro organisms in it.
Besides veggies, I also like to grow herbs, flowers and fruit. I have two strawberry patches, rhubarb, a goji bush and 3 peach trees.
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