Spring garden
Those of you who have
worked your way through the Weekend Homesteader
projects since May will notice that you've come nearly full
circle. You planted a simple summer garden and learned how
season extension can make the fall
garden produce deep
into the winter
months. Now it's time to begin round two, starting the garden
year a bit sooner so that you can taste homegrown produce as early as
April.
Before diving into this week's project, you may want to refresh your
memory by perusing Weekend
Homesteader: May
(the basics of no-till
gardening), Weekend
Homesteader: October
(simple season extension), and
Weekend
Homesteader: November
(garden rotation). But don't get
bogged down if you're just tuning into the series. Your spring
garden could be as simple as a lettuce bed, thrown together in a
few minutes and enjoyed just as thoroughly.
This
week's lunchtime series is excerpted from Weekend
Homesteader:
March. I saved some of my favorite projects for last, so I
hope
you'll splurge 99 cents to read about growing edible mushrooms,
composting, and attracting native pollinators. And, of course,
the ebook has the full spring planting chapter in case you just can't
wait to read each installment at noon this week.
| This post is part of our Spring Planting lunchtime series.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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