Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Welcome Laurel,
Our church just acquired a chunk of property in and area called Rockwood. It is living up to its name. So it is the Lasagna Method for us. We have 2.78 acres and a barn and a Sanctuary. I just built a wood structure Green House and am now trying to convince the elders to let me have a small flock of chickens(15 or 20 +/-)once I get them hooked on eggs then I will go for the Cow....
  My Grand Father was a dairy rancher in Northern California and he tried the Chemical gardening for a couple of years but then didn't like the side effects of fish kills so went back to what he called Old School farming.
Aw Mother Earth News use to be a good magazine but the sold out and then who ever took over went commercial.

Well it appears you have a farm to....
jeff

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From: lmcgilvery <lmcgilvery@yahoo.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2011 4:04 PM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] New to group (but not to gardening).

 
First want to say I love the picture of the knot garden. I want to put one in my back yard near the kitchen door for my garden herbs.

I live in West Plains, MO (on the southeast side of the Ozarks). I've been gardening using organic methods for years. Grew up with better living through chemistry gardening (I swear my dad was a poster child for Monsanto), which I blame for many of my breathing problems (sorry Dad). But I soon saw the light (thanks to Mother Earth News).

I just planted apple, peach and apricot trees along with blackberries, raspberries along with a new strawberry bed (used tires to make the strawberry bed). Need to put in a new aspargus bed as the goats seem to have done a number on the existing bed (maybe I should have kept it fenced off?). And want to plant garlic next year.

Vegetable garden is resting right now with my pigs turned out in the area. Getting a couple of loads of rotted sawdust dumped in the area and letting the pigs mix that up with the soil. The Ozarks are not noted for rich soil (we grow rocks really well), so it is going to be a multi-year project to get the garden established well. Early next spring I'll till everything in and start planting again. Have a huge market garden planned along with enough veggies for me (I can/freeze a lot). Plan to use the pigs every winter to turn over and fertilize the soil. They produce a lot of great manure, although they tend to produce it in one area so I'm going to have to move/mix it into the whole area once I take the pigs out. But that is what the tractor/tiller is for.

Getting ready to dig up the daylilies and divide them (they make a beautiful display along most of my front fenceline in the late spring). I want to establish them along the entire front so moving some to the top fenceline and sharing extras with friends and neighbors.

Laurel in MO
Zone 6b/6a (USDA says 6b, but recent winters say 6a)

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