by John Johnson | Aug 2, 2021 | Food Forest, Growing Vegetables, Videos
It’s early May and everything is leafing out and full of blooms. The garden and food forest are in full spring mode. Can’t wait to get to enjoy all the marionberries and peaches that are to come. We wrap up with a little tomato planting. We put in...
by John Johnson | Jul 30, 2021 | Food Forest, Growing Vegetables, Videos
Ladybugs Natural Aphid Killers I noticed a couple of days ago that there were several aphids around the Artichokes that were popping up. We plant artichokes in many of our fruit tree guilds as the pollinators love them. I could have come through and sprayed them with...
by John Johnson | Jul 29, 2021 | Community Garden, Growing Vegetables, Videos
Today we harvested the first round of snow peas and some of the broccoli that we planted earlier this year in our community garden plot. We love planting late winter crops such as these and getting to enjoy the harvest in early spring. We have sugar snap peas, Oregon...
by John Johnson | Jul 29, 2021 | Growing Vegetables, Videos
We harvested marionberries, raspberries, and blueberries in our food forest for the past several weeks. We love growing lots of berries. There are few things better than vine-ripened fresh berries. We grow our marionberries on a simple trellis in order to maximize...
by John Johnson | Jul 22, 2021 | Growing Vegetables, Videos
Today, we are going to go over how to use tomato clips to trellis your indeterminate variety of tomatoes on a string. There are other ways to trellis tomatoes and we do those techniques to such as the Florida weave or just simply wrapping the tomato vines around a...
by John Johnson | Jul 16, 2021 | Community Garden, Growing Vegetables, Videos
We use the Florida weave for our sauce tomatoes growing in the community garden plot. This is a great way to trellis indeterminate tomatoes. Together with T posts or wooden stakes, you wrap the string around all of the tomatoes. By weaving the twine around the plants...
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