Rachel Anderson

by rachel on Mon, Nov 9, 2009

I am in my 7th year of gardening. I started with tomatoes in pickle buckets. I now have 13 raised gopher-proof beds and 3 wire-lined trenches in a deer-proof garden area. This season marked my foray into both starting plants from seed and spring/fall/winter gardening. I have cold-hardy brocoli and collards plants in our garden. What a joy to still have plants alive after our first freeze! We also built a cold frame that is now full of salad greens. We are colder here than most of Hayfork, with earlier frosts and freezes. Our future gardening plans are to build a partially in-ground passive solar greenhouse for year-round gardening. And also to continue to share plants and seeds with other gardeners. I want to pass on the gift that was given to me over the years, by other gardeners gifts of plants.

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Offer: Vegetable, herb, and flower seeds 3/15/2010
Offer: Used barn straw 11/10/2009
Offer: Various plants, you dig 11/9/2009

Description

This seed list is updated as of April 20, 2010. I can usually mail these seeds, within reason, of course. BC = Baker Creek. Go to http://rareseeds.com/ to read descriptions. Otherwise, seeds are home grown and/or harvested.

VEGGIES:
- CHICHIQUELITES. BC - '08. Similar to Wonderberry.
- EGGPLANT, THAI YELLOW EGG: BC - '08. Needs longer growing season than I have.
- EGGPLANT, THAI PURPLE EGG: BD - '08. Needs longer growing season than I have.
- MELON, GALIA: Cordtz - '01. Netted skin, green flesh. 

Description

This is "amended straw" for mulching, composting, or amending your soil, I have 4 sheep and 5 goats that spend the night in one barn. Almost any time of the year I am open to cleaning out the barn. The offer: You and I clean the barn together and we load it into your truck for your garden. I use this "amended straw" all the time on my garden, my favorite use as a thick mulch layer that feeds the soil below, as it breaks down. The barn gets dirty faster than I can use it. Contains partially broken down straw, sheep & goat poops, and urine.
 

Description

I have many plants that self sow around our place. In the spring, there are usually plants in places I prefer them not to be. Often, I just have a lot of them and some can be dug out. Most of them are deer resistant, otherwise they would not have flourished so well.
Lamb's Ears, Rose Campion, Feverfew, Catnip, Lemon Balm (Melissa), Oregano (mild with big leaves, I use mostly in salads), Walking/Egyptian Onions (onion sets in fall or plants in spring or summer), Mint (naturalized and very hardy).

Location

Hayfork
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