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Shan
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tahir
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Shan
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sgt.colon
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Shan
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tahir
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Mistress Rose
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Jam Lady
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Mistress Rose
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2573 Location: New Jersey, USA
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They are globe artichoke, Mistress Rose. She starts them at the same time she sows the first broccoli. They produce the same year they are started but do not winter over. She thinks if she had a hoop house they might survive. They were forming their flower heads when I was there yesterday.
Fabulous, exemplary garden. Grass path around perimeter inside the electric fence, and a wider grass path side to side and through the middle separating the two sets of rows. Rows are 50 feet long and 5 feet wide. Organic. Where she uses plastic sheet as mulch (for Walla Walla onions, for example) it is biodegradable. Most mulching is newspaper or corrugated cardboard with crappy hay or wood chips over it.
She raises everything from asparagus, the aforementioned broccoli, potatoes, corn (sequentially planted), tomatoes, tomatillos, ground cherries, celery, celtuce etc to the artichokes and peanuts and more. There are a few rows of flowers for the bees - her husband has two hives in the vegetable garden area. One double row area is planted to buckwheat both as a green manure and for the bees.
And yes, those are their solar electric panels at the back of the field.
They also have a small orchard with peaches, apples, plums, pears, blueberries, and grape vines.
She has a dehydrator, freezes, and pickles but doesn't do much canning.
I'm invited to come back in a month. You bet I will! |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46247 Location: yes
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Mistress Rose
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15997
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Shan
Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 9075 Location: South Wales
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8954 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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