Garden Update ~ April 16, 2024 ~ I love it!!!
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
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Pardon how rough I look... the garden doesn't care. 😊😂
I am so excited about it, and can't wait for what it will bring.
My compost bin: amzn.to/49Exo67
Amazing, I want to grow blue corn and make blue corn mush, tortillas, chips, pancakes and bread. Im starting to think about being a beekeeper:]
In Hopi and Navajo culture. We would sing to the seeds and sing everytime we water them. They treat them like children. We want them to be healthy and grow tall to give more food.
"Nature can provide to anyone in need. Nature can't provide to anyone in greed."
blue corn sounds fantastic! I have Cherokee and Shawnee grandparents but don't know their traditions when it comes to farming... I'm mostly learning as I go (but wish I'd learned these sorts of things in school). Bees are awesome! My dad keeps bees and the honey is wonderful. 🤤🤤
@@BetterEveryDayUA-cam That's wonderful! Research about the Cherokee/Shawnee. We are all connected to the Earth, especially females because they hold the seeds to grow and nurture far more than males. It's scientifically proven that Estrogen is the hormone of caretaking and nurturing.
There's a ceremony called kinaaldá (rite of passage way)
It really details how the woman is important because she has Nurturing care on a spiritual way that needs to be honorable.
Now, I know beekeeping may be important in my life:]
I have a little tip. Plant your spuds in damp ground a foot apart. When they got about 8-10 inches tall, bury them leaving an inch or so uncovered. and repeat this until harvest. What it does is increase the yield nicely. The shoots with leaves on that get buried turn into roots that produce more veg. We did this for years and had enough spuds in paper sacks to last a family for about 10 months. They need to be stored in a cool, dark, dry place. Light and moisture with encourage fresh growth, and that will ruin perfectly good food. Keep some to one side for next years crop too.
We also used "bean sticks" for our runner beans. Once the seedlings were planted out, about 10 inches apart, we place 6' long strate(ish) stick next to each plant, and then one or two long sticks along the top, forming something like a tent. The stick across the top were tied in place giving the structure more strength. We would harvest the sticks from local woodlands where possible. Or if we couldn't find any, bamboo canes would be just as good. We had runners coming out of our ears, and my dear old mum would spend ages blanching and freezing them. They were great times for bonding dad and lad, working the plot together, year in year out for the best part of a decade. The biggest problem we had was slugs eating things like lettuce, cabbage, and other veg of that leafy nature. The hardest part, work wise was keeping the soil in good condition. We dug in plenty of stinking compost, and sometimes wood/leaf rod from the floor of that local woodland, and lots of it. That was done when we had nothing growing in that ground at that time, and we'd water it a lot too, that aided the brake down of the compost, releasing all the rich goodness that plants thrive on.
Have you heard of the new "law" over here, regarding hens? If not look it up, it comes into "force" in September. If they weren't serious, it would be a great big joke.
Take good care of yourself, you're looking tired out sweetheart. Lots of love from lil old us to our beloved friends. TTFN
Thank you for the tips! My grandma used to grow potatoes in old tires that were behind her house (she filled them with dirt). It actually looked cool. :) I haven't heard anything about a hen/chicken law, but I live in basically the chicken capital of the US (because it's a huge industry here). I found out that a few decades ago, the government would advertise in the paper and encourage citizens to have backyard chickens and/or backyard gardens. It's weird that we've gone from that (encouraging people to have some independence) to most Americans never doing it or even knowing how to.
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