Winter Update
A Great Growing Season
After a productive summer filled with deck building, a shade structure, landscaping, and a building a cellar, fall arrived! I really can't recall a summer that went by so quickly. To reiterate, in the previous post I talked a little about food security. I tried to focus some of the landscape in our yard on producing food...and it was a huge success! We had a steady supply of baby root vegetables and greens up until the end of September (Picture 1). It was quite a bit of work but it was amazingly enjoyable watching the garden flourish and picking throughout the summer. I battled with nature and learned a lot from my planting mistakes. I will put those lessons to work next year as I work to add new crops and add resiliency to the garden.
Getting ready for the fall harvest was no easy task. I had never owned a cellar before now, nor had I harvested or stored vegetables. A lot of effort went into researching the old methods of root cellaring vegetables …
After a productive summer filled with deck building, a shade structure, landscaping, and a building a cellar, fall arrived! I really can't recall a summer that went by so quickly. To reiterate, in the previous post I talked a little about food security. I tried to focus some of the landscape in our yard on producing food...and it was a huge success! We had a steady supply of baby root vegetables and greens up until the end of September (Picture 1). It was quite a bit of work but it was amazingly enjoyable watching the garden flourish and picking throughout the summer. I battled with nature and learned a lot from my planting mistakes. I will put those lessons to work next year as I work to add new crops and add resiliency to the garden.
Getting ready for the fall harvest was no easy task. I had never owned a cellar before now, nor had I harvested or stored vegetables. A lot of effort went into researching the old methods of root cellaring vegetables …
