Winter Vegetable Gardening An important gardening secret – it is possible to grow vegetables outside in the winter! With the proper planting schedule, protection, and care, it can be easy and fun to enjoy vegetable gardening in a cold climate. Continue Reading
What Does Your Soil Look Like After You Pull The Plants Out? This weekend all of the urges aligned into a final clean up and prep for next year. The plants have done all they can do and now I have a bunch of organic material I can compost for next season. Continue Reading
Biochar, y’all! What Is It Good For? Other than backyard gardens what is biochar good for? We are fans of how it helps improve soil conditions, but there are other ways to use biochar that you may not have considered. Continue Reading
The Backyard Garden Got A Bit Crazy This Year All the studies indicated that we would see results and there was a lot of confidence we could get our garden rolling. So we built two raised bed boxes. One with the typical garden mix of vermiculite, compost and top soil. The other with the exact same mix plus biochar. Continue Reading