Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Understanding Crop Rotation

Check out this article about crop rotation. This is a great way to avoid depleting your soil of nutrients making it unusable for food production.
http://www.selfsufficientish.com/main/blog.php/2011/07/29/understanding-cerops-rotation-sm/
Also check this book out. Here's a review: http://destinysurvival.com/2011/06/27/if-you-want-to-be-a-resilient-survival-gardener-buy-this-book/

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

USDA Zone Map for New York


Saturday, December 11, 2010

Now that's an efficient use of space...


Check out this excellent example of permaculture:
http://gardenpool.org/

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Guerrilla Gardening

from dseelman:
I have been thinking a lot about planting some food in the woods lately.  I listened to http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/guerrilla-gardeing-for-survival a few weeks ago and started wondering what I could do.  Some of this area is zone 4 and some zone 5.  Anyone have any thoughts?