Category: Annual Gardening

?Our spring harvests are still looking a lot like winter harvests around here!
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? No complaints at all, there’s just so much to love about cabbages, cauliflower and broccoli, and at least there’s a hint of spring with asparagus and snow peas to be picked daily. ???
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Fermenting 3 cornered garlic – our favourite Spring weed. The plan is to make a garlicky paste for the times when onion and garlic are scarce, a paste which is also chock-full of probiotic goodness.
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Basically we gathered, washed, chopped and blended the leaves, adding a bit of 2% brine to aid the blending, and then added another two teaspoons of salt for good measure.
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Now the whole brew is sitting on our bookshelf where it will ferment at room temperature for a week or two until it’s sour and fabulous. Then it will go into the fridge to halt fermentation and get used as needed. That’s the plan, anyway. Based on previous experiments we’re pretty sure it will be great.
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Viva la lactofermentation! #permacultureskills #wildfermentation #eattheweeds

October is traditionally the time when you plant garlic. Each individual clove makes one full bulb after about 7 months in the ground. There are two primary types of garlic that you are going to plant, hard neck and soft neck. Hard neck garlic has woody stem going through it as seen by my finger and on the bulb on the right. The soft neck garlic on the bottom of the photo has more of a layered stem that is never hard. Hard neck garlics typically need a colder winter and are the varieties that produce the culinary treasure of a garlic scape. The soft neck varieties usually do better in the milder environments and have a tendency to store a little longer. We are gonna plant both and will keep you updated about the progress! Have a great day All! ✌️? p.s. the purple hard neck variety is an Asian Tempest from @bakercreekseeds and the soft neck is an early California variety from eBay ?

Last winter was my first time growing fava beans and the only regret I had was not planting more, so for this #throwbackthursday let me tell you why I’m planting twice as many this year.
Take a look at this picture, you might see a plant that is months away from bearing its first edible beans, and you’d be right, but there’s more to favas than just the delicious beans.
First of all, they’re easy to grow. Just pop the seeds in the ground in fall or winter and let nature do the rest. If you’re in a dry climate you may need to water them periodically.
As they grow the plants will actually take nitrogen from the air and transfer it to their roots, making is available for your soil and future plants.
But my favorite thing about favas is that the entire plant is edible! Now I wouldn’t recommend chewing on the stock or any thick stems but the leaves, young shoots, flowers and young bean pods are all delicious raw or cooked. Last winter we couldn’t get enough fava leaf pesto.
And that my friends is why we’re planting twice as many favas this year!
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So what crop has earned itself a larger plot in your garden or farm this season?

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?Our forest of garlic! ?
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The bulbs are beginning to thicken up nicely now…. it won’t be long until harvest time! ?
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This variety is called Italian purple.. ? and it’s a firm favourite for growing here. ? ?
? The tricky part is to plant the garlic early enough so that it can be harvested in time to use the bed for our summer plantings.??? Looks like we’re on track this year….
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?Have a wonderful Saturday my friends! ??
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Each year during fall where ever we are, we get a box of persimmons in the mail from my mom. ❤️❤️❤️ #persimmon #fall
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Persimmons are becoming one of my favorites ???
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Nothing beets some bad pun thank you cards at the end of another amazing Permaculture Design Course.
Thanks @ella_kent and all the rest of the amazing students and crew I got to spend the last two weeks with.