My happy place

[grassfarmer]

.........We mulch heavily with manure, spread it evenly six or so inches thick, let it sit all summer, fall and winter, and plant into it in the spring. Weeds are a distant memory, the soil that used to bake, crust and be hard as a rock is now mellow and soft.

Sounds like a plan for most of the agricultural land in western Canada. We just need to figure out to upscale it!

[seldomseen]

Potatoes and corn on high ground

[Sheepwheat]

Sure like the pics. Here I thought I was alone again...

We have been no tilling our garden now for about 15 years. We mulch heavily with manure, spread it evenly six or so inches thick, let it sit all summer, fall and winter, and plant into it in the spring. Weeds are a distant memory, the soil that used to bake, crust and be hard as a rock is now mellow and soft.

It is amazing how much food one can grow off a few rows of this and that.

My sons have been “breaking” about a quarter acre patch with a garden tractor they bought and an old disc they pulled out of the bush. They plan to grow a lot of garlic for sale. I go out there once in a while to see the progress. They even cut out a few trees to make an approach to their field. 😝 they have been multiplying garlic for a couple years. Been eating scapes for quite a few meals. Man are they something else...

[seldomseen]

My wife is the main gardener and I do lawn and trees. She has 3 different spots where she puts gardens some low ground and some high ground so she always gets something wet or dry. It is hard finding the time but we enjoy our yard and gardens.

[pourfarmer]

Used old air drill hose to water tomatoes.duck tape bottom and drill hole facing plants.great for when plants get big

Damn good idea, I will be stealing that! Are those marigolds planted beside the tomato's?


No pictures at the moment, but we love gardening here as well, kids seem to learn so much when they're involved! My daughter and I will go out the garden and she will say a number and then we "race" to pick that number of weeds each, first one done gets bragging rights! I hope I can keep this game going, LOL!

Mom and Dad used to pay us kids to pick weeds: 25c per 5 gallon pail. Everyone had a big garden in those days.

[newguy]

Used old air drill hose to water tomatoes.duck tape bottom and drill hole facing plants.great for when plants get big

[SASKFARMER3]

It's a stress reliever. I love to trim my trees at the lake and have a small garden up there. its lettuce tomatoes and onions and cucumbers. Farm garden is a project with my youngest son. He is determined to get it right one year. This is his third try and I think he is starting to figure it out.

Farm garden has corn, potatoes tomatoes, peas, cucumbers, radish, onions celery, zucchini, spaghetti squash and pumpkins plus a raspberry patch that I have a chemical to control the weeds.

I do flowers in regina, farm and lake.

Its peaceful when some days you just want to punt something.

Ah, retirement is also getting closer may as well start practising.

[grassfarmer]

It might be a retirement thing for me but right now I would have a hard time finding the time and energy for a garden. I think there is a lot of personal satisfaction and pride growing a garden and enjoying your own produce.

I'm in the same boat farma - looking forward to being a gardener in the future. Got fed up trying it in AB only to lose everything to frost time and again - including potatoes in July!

[burnt]

There is no more beautiful place on our farm than my wife's garden. She loves it and commented just this morning when I mentioned this thread that she does it because she likes to stay busy - not because it's worth the effort. Well as the pics show - she stays busy. And we eat well all winter from it.







She planted soys between the corn rows to get into this interseeding thing that taking off in this part of the country...



It's become necessary to start watering stuff. Need a good rain.

Mulching with straw over top of newspaper saves a lot of weeding.

[farmaholic]

It might be a retirement thing for me but right now I would have a hard time finding the time and energy for a garden. I think there is a lot of personal satisfaction and pride growing a garden and enjoying your own produce.