My happy place

[seldomseen]

Potatoes and corn on high ground

[grassfarmer]

.........We mulch heavily with manure, spread it evenly six or so inches thick, let it sit all summer, fall and winter, and plant into it in the spring. Weeds are a distant memory, the soil that used to bake, crust and be hard as a rock is now mellow and soft.

Sounds like a plan for most of the agricultural land in western Canada. We just need to figure out to upscale it!

[newguy]

Pourfarmer.Yes marigolds beside tomatoes to keep away certain bugs.air tubes are dug in at time of transplanting tomatoes.

[newguy]

Sheepwheat.we tried planting garlic last fall and nothing survived.planted again this spring and a small % is growing.what is the secret?

[seldomseen]

Then there is the strawberries,raspberries cherries, Saskatoon's, black current and several different apples
You would have to taste my wife’s cherry pie!!!

[SASKFARMER3]

Art?

[sumdumguy]

Sure like the pics. Here I thought I was alone again...

We have been no tilling our garden now for about 15 years. We mulch heavily with manure, spread it evenly six or so inches thick, let it sit all summer, fall and winter, and plant into it in the spring. Weeds are a distant memory, the soil that used to bake, crust and be hard as a rock is now mellow and soft.

It is amazing how much food one can grow off a few rows of this and that.

My sons have been “breaking” about a quarter acre patch with a garden tractor they bought and an old disc they pulled out of the bush. They plan to grow a lot of garlic for sale. I go out there once in a while to see the progress. They even cut out a few trees to make an approach to their field. 😝 they have been multiplying garlic for a couple years. Been eating scapes for quite a few meals. Man are they something else...

How do you eat scapes?

[pourfarmer]

How do you eat scapes?

Pickled! Mmmmm

[seldomseen]

Then on top of working full time she has flower gardens all around the house.

[Sheepwheat]

Sounds like a plan for most of the agricultural land in western Canada. We just need to figure out to upscale it!

If I could do on my farmland what we do in our garden, 😲.

[Sheepwheat]

Sheepwheat.we tried planting garlic last fall and nothing survived.planted again this spring and a small % is growing.what is the secret?

Plant date is important, you do not want any root growth at all. Late October at the earliest. Also, mulch it heavily.

Other than that, we are new to the garlic racket, but so far so good. Demand is enormous for garlic. Gross revenue of ten g an acre is typical apparently.

[Sheepwheat]

How do you eat scapes?

Sauté in butter and a bit of salt and pepper. Last nite I put scapes in a bag of potatoes and microwaved em. Man, that was so good.