Going through
my photos from this year, I realized I never published this
one from the spring.
Here is Gary working on putting in the first of the 2
foot by 10 foot beds in the Northwest Field.
You may wonder if we can really call this farming... probably
not. But I always say: You have to start somewhere.
We quickly discovered that the southern end of this field
(closest to the red barn) stays very saturated with water;
which will change the plans I had for that field. But we
avoided that area and put in the few (12) that we could.
A big deal for me this year was record-keeping. Not used
to doing that with gardening... but think I made a good
start of it and, hopefully, it will work for tracing seed
from generation to generation. I kept a journal this year.
Meant to keep really good track of rainfall and such, but
that part wasn't so well documented.
Personally, for vegetable gardening, I prefer raised beds.
Mainly because its hard for me to kneel and lean over the
flat ones (like this year) to manage them. Had a terraced
garden at the old house (picture below) which was perfect
for my needs... and I've been promised that raised beds
will be in my future.
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