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  2. Here in SW NY we are still planting also, mostly shorter season and frost tolerant crops left to go. The plan this year is to work on adapting several old Native American varieties to our micro clime here. As our forbearers did. Experimenting with no till and deep mulch gardening, looking to relieve the strain on our backs and prepare for our elder years. Seems to be working well.

    1. Hillbillynick,

      We also were looking for relief on our backs. we built raised beds, raised up 4 feet so gardening was done reaching over not bending down. straw bales were covered in topsoil. this is the first year we did it and it’s working out fine.

      1. L.O., We have raised beds also but the main garden is 100’x20′. Not very practical for raised beds. Also working on the rest of the property which is (was) a played out hay field. Planting buckwheat on much of it this week to act as a cover crop till fall when winter rye will be planted for the same reasons.

  3. I didn’t get to plant a garden this year due to the possibility of moving, but the few herbs and tomatoes are drowning in the Middle GA weather. Always a learning curve. I do plan on cranking the dehydrator up this coming week. Frozen veggies, and perhaps some jerky.

  4. It’s surprising how much labor is involved in ‘old time’ living! I just moved to my redoubt location in early May and was able to get a large raised bed built and filled with local black gold organic soil from a drained moose bog! Quickly planted organic starts (planted a little late due to moving) of brussels sprouts, cauliflower, savoy cabbage, cucumber, chard, bok choy, roma tomato, and red pepper. Hoed a row and planted provider beans, phew! All are doing beautifully in these long summer days. Also had strawberries from previous owner, and planted a blueberry bush and two thorn-less red raspberries. Another row of green beans goes in at sunset today. Made a huge purchase at big city box store last week of long term provision… watching the news lately has me feeling to hurry up and exchange baseless green paper for real-life food and necessities. Life is good since my much-anticipated strategic relocation, and the locals here are super kind and welcoming. I feel like I have travelled back in time to when people were normal. Madly in love with Northern Idaho!

  5. We are already harvesting large golf ball size strawberries here in SE Washington, and Last month the rhubarb at our place in Idaho was ready to be picked. This certainly has been an odd start to a beautiful summer.

  6. Storm Cindy kept me in most of the week. My last batch of picked tomatoes were split from too much water. I did make the trip today out to the field to see how the brown top Millet was doing. Of course with just over an inch and a half in the past week where the rain was falling daily and not too heavily, the seeds have sprouted. I have a nice green quarter inch carpet over the five acres. I took the time to pick some black berries while there. Unfortunately, they did not make it home. I couldn’t help myself and ate them all. I also took the time to shoot my break down Ruger 10/22 with the new threaded barrel on it. I had the suppressor screwed on and was using CCI 1050 FPS subsonic ammo. I was very please at being able to drive tacks with it at thirty feet and it was whisper quite. I noticed on the way out that my neighbor’s field corn had brown silk tassels and thought that I need to find some sweet corn form a local grower to pick in the next few weeks.

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