If you are looking for a Weed Free, Deep Mulch, No Till, Ruth Stout inspired gardening method. Follow the progress of a home garden from late winter until harvest. My YouTube channel is a documentary type look at what it takes to create and manage such a garden.
Come on, Let's Plant and We'll See What We Get.
As a grandchild of depression era grandparents, I cut my teeth on the end of a hoe. I hated the garden growing up as my only participation was weeding and picking in the summer heat of Wyoming. In the late 60’s and early 70’s, the men I worked with didn’t have time to explain to a kid any of the ins and outs of what we were doing, rather they just said do this or that. It was not a gentler time, so believe me when I say, a kid had better take orders or else.
My grandmother was an angle but also didn’t have time to any of the kids to be in that hot kitchen during canning season. As an adult I understand how touch it was for those women with no air conditioning and all those boiling pots.
The food was always terrific and missed when I ventured out into the world. As an adult the 1st thing I wanted to do when any ground was available was to grow something I could eat. I still hate the hoe.
Wayland this is for your viewers. I put together an article I call "Flowers & Herbs That Dissuade & Prevent Insects & Disease in Vegetable & Fruit Gardens." It is based on my Grandma Cox a Cherokee medicine woman & my Grandpa William Reiter a German immigrant farmer & orchard keeper. He was the best cellar digger & well-witcher in the state back when. Since Wayland's Mom Carol was my sister these folks are Wayland’s Great Grand Parents, my dad's mom & my mom's dad. Grandpa planted Rosemary around his cabbage & carrot patches & his wife Hilda planted it around the house because Rosemary dissuades the cabbage looper, carrot flies , cock roaches, mosquitoes, slugs, snails & Mexican bean beetles. He planted his radishes between his cabbage, cucumbers and squash as Radish dissuades cabbage maggots, cucumber & squash beetles. He said not to plant radishes by onions as it diminished their sweetness. I have written everything I could remember & verified it by 5 or 6 sources. - Betty Brenner