new winter cabbage babies getting planted

harvesting beets

and a pose, of course!

of course a one inch hose is big enough!

Our secondary little rotor line

Main overhead spray heads will let small fish heads through without filtering! The irrigation ditch has thick water!

Farmers Market was too full again on Saturday. So… would anyone stop their car for one word?

second harvest done!

look at all the sexy garlic!

we left the booth setup overnite but missed the church crowd

a strange irrigation head?

SLUGS!!!!

CATCH!

and RELEASE!

So nicely grown!

Seed Saving… Cabbage plants moved from old patch were allowed to fulfill their lifes journey to propigate their DNA into the future.

another shot of irrigation possibilities

Moonplanting… With fellow Garden Knome & Favorite Youngest Son Adam

Its nice to have something to help put up the irrigation

Plugging in the babies!

Spring Planting Frenzie!

So much for no weeds in the garden. Still have to mow around it.

Nice and wet!!

No weeding was required once the silage got rolled out. Silage is sauerkraut for cows. They produce twice as much milk and are never sick because of this fermented grass. I wonder if kraut does the same for lactating humans.

No weeding was required once the silage got rolled out. Silage is sauerkraut for cows. They produce twice as much milk and are never sick because of this fermented grass. I wonder if kraut does the same for lactating humans.

Big Larry, the Worlds Laregest Pickle, and his seedlings!

Favorite Youngest son Adam helped plant.

Big Larry babies hittn’ the dirt!

The cold frame filled up with over 600 plants!

one of our cabbages hid in a box outside all winter. It started to grow babies all on its own, so, I planted it!

Here is the beginning of our first crop of cabbages

Ten wanted to get in the pic of the cabbage sprouting flowers. She still had to finish picking all the carrots from last year. Deep mulch saves them all winter for harvesting.

Uncle Shpuds knows how to grow cabbage. All us Russians grow great food!

one of our cabbages hid in a box outside all winter. It started to grow babies all on its own, so, I planted it!

Our first cabbage row was planted a bit close together, but quick and easy.

This is a double row.

Planting first cabbages

I let her get dirty to absorb the best soil microorganisms through her skin. This is a three row carrot bed. Note the “mountains” and “Valleys”. the mountain tops get the carrot seeds, the valleys get leafs compacted into them.

Just gotta pose for the camera

Ten is stuffing carrot seeds

Ten helped do all the big lifting

Andrew helped get starter soil from Dean Dacks Classic Compost

And the ToyTruck did the rest

Watering our Ferment Field is NOT like turning a tap on.Our irrigation dich needed to be cleaned out before water is diverted from Mission Creek.

Mid summers Full moon over the Ferment Farm

Me and my Ho!

A special thanks to Kiwi Steve for helping out. I made him feel at home with a fly hat and Veggiemate.

Irrigated and growing!

Ten is the BEST helper!

We then dragged old irrigation lines to our new area.

Maddie was amazed at how easy beets stayed fresh under the mulch too.

Lawnmowing the perimiter is an extra…

Best helper!

starting seeds on onion skin paper in plates makes for easy transplanting

Found some rolls of silage from Armstrong way

Spreading BIG bags of leafs!

Found some rolls of silage from Armstrong way

We planted a section JUST for making miso from organic soy. Its our versionb of “square foot” planting. we pout seedlings inbetween the sheafs of old straw. No weeding necessary again!

Ten is in cold frame #2. Its been so warm this year we almost didnt need it!

It was alot easier to put straw & silage down last year. Moving the garden a couple hundred feet and running it east west is done!

we took apart old bales and fit them together like pavers and put sprouted soy beans between. No weeding!

Lifting up the old straw was a LOT harder than putting it down!

last years ground cover didnt make it for a second season

The new Ferment Farm has straw pathways from the recycled old one

still lots of beets under the leafs.

Gaining Ground at the ferment farm.

Almost done! Over 1500 bags of leafs collected and spread!

Having a break from leaf spreading

Tennille Garlicking. A few hundred feet of our own garlic will be nice to have for our ferments.

Goatees in the Garden…November 18th and ground still not freezing.

Getting into Deep Mulch Gardening! Prepping the carrot beds for spring seed planting. Only the very tops of these beds will be exposed for seed germination. All else is will be covered so no weeding!!!

The Leaf Crew! We managed to get 75 bags into this load. One of many to cover the ground into deep mulch for the winter.

to its new orientation East West. Plant height can be much better optimized to maximize sun exposure.

Little by little we are moving garden #4 into its new spot from running North South…

Farmers turn their field. We have to turn ours 90degrees from North/South to East/West. Tons of organic compost needs to be moved to cover the freshly tilled soil before weeds start to grow again.

Tennille workin the patch..
Dilly Carrots-to- be!

Harvesting

Daniel is such a poser!