The most difficult aspect with crop rotation for me are the trellises! Lesson learned this year with my tomatoes- I had a poor crop - even with soil amendments! Thanks again!
OMG! I added six raised beds, moved two to better area, and added hoops for netting to seven raised beds this year. That gives me sixteen raised beds to plant in next season. My winter/spring garden is going to be huger, twice the size of last year’s garden. A lot of things are changing next year. I finally found a tomato that I like and that grows well in my area, the Grand Marshall. It has been discontinued this year, so it is back to experimenting. I’ll start with its replacement, the Jolene Tomato. I have room, so I’ll grow more cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Pak Choi, and other Asian greens. I’m going to forgo growing potatoes, and instead grow sweet potatoes. That will give me time to grow a crop of mustard and Romain Lettuce. I have so much space for my next garden, that I am going to have to completely rethink what I am going to grow, and where to grow it. I’ve made eight jars of salsa, and nine jars of tomato sauce with garlic and herbs. I have another batch of tomatoes thawing with seven gallons of tomatoes left to process. I’ll be making all of them into sauce and canning it. The tomato sauce can be used as is as a topping for spaghetti, add milk, and you have cream of tomato soup, add beef or chicken broth, and you have a base for making stew, for casseroles, and more. I should have enough to keep me happy until harvest time. Oh joy, not only do I do the growing, I harvest, can, dehydrate, blanch and freeze, and have to eat my own poison. I’ll probably live to a ripe old age as long as I keep doing it. My hens will be twenty weeks old come Monday. They better start laying eggs soon. Not only did they get scratch grains as a treat, they also got sweet potato peels. I might be tempted to hold back on the treats.
This was a great comment. I enjoyed hearing your plans! I personally love growing tomatoes and my two favorites are Country Taste and Dr Wyches. You might check those out. I hope you get eggs soon!
This was a great comment. I enjoyed hearing your plans! I personally love growing tomatoes and my two favorites are Country Taste and Dr Wyches. You might check those out. I hope you get eggs soon!
@@jaytoney3007 What do you mean your favorite tomato is being "discontinued"? If your regular seed supplier no longer offers it, just Google search where to by seeds of that tomato variety. I bet you'll find it still offered by a different seed supplier
@jaytoney3007 my chickens usually stop laying or slow down dramatically around this time and will pick up after the first of the year. If you really want them to start laying out a light in the coop. That will cause them to lay more in the winter
@@sandybottomhomestead I'm okay with them laying fewer eggs in the winter. I'd rather not stress them by tricking them into laying to get a few more eggs. One of my hens is a Speckled Sussex. They tend to lay eggs continously throughout the year. The rest are Rhode Island Reds. Bella, my largest hen, likes to be petted on her back and chest.
The most difficult aspect with crop rotation for me are the trellises! Lesson learned this year with my tomatoes- I had a poor crop - even with soil amendments! Thanks again!
OMG! I added six raised beds, moved two to better area, and added hoops for netting to seven raised beds this year. That gives me sixteen raised beds to plant in next season. My winter/spring garden is going to be huger, twice the size of last year’s garden.
A lot of things are changing next year. I finally found a tomato that I like and that grows well in my area, the Grand Marshall. It has been discontinued this year, so it is back to experimenting. I’ll start with its replacement, the Jolene Tomato.
I have room, so I’ll grow more cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Pak Choi, and other Asian greens. I’m going to forgo growing potatoes, and instead grow sweet potatoes. That will give me time to grow a crop of mustard and Romain Lettuce.
I have so much space for my next garden, that I am going to have to completely rethink what I am going to grow, and where to grow it.
I’ve made eight jars of salsa, and nine jars of tomato sauce with garlic and herbs. I have another batch of tomatoes thawing with seven gallons of tomatoes left to process. I’ll be making all of them into sauce and canning it.
The tomato sauce can be used as is as a topping for spaghetti, add milk, and you have cream of tomato soup, add beef or chicken broth, and you have a base for making stew, for casseroles, and more. I should have enough to keep me happy until harvest time.
Oh joy, not only do I do the growing, I harvest, can, dehydrate, blanch and freeze, and have to eat my own poison. I’ll probably live to a ripe old age as long as I keep doing it.
My hens will be twenty weeks old come Monday. They better start laying eggs soon. Not only did they get scratch grains as a treat, they also got sweet potato peels. I might be tempted to hold back on the treats.
This was a great comment. I enjoyed hearing your plans! I personally love growing tomatoes and my two favorites are Country Taste and Dr Wyches. You might check those out. I hope you get eggs soon!
This was a great comment. I enjoyed hearing your plans! I personally love growing tomatoes and my two favorites are Country Taste and Dr Wyches. You might check those out. I hope you get eggs soon!
@@jaytoney3007 What do you mean your favorite tomato is being "discontinued"? If your regular seed supplier no longer offers it, just Google search where to by seeds of that tomato variety. I bet you'll find it still offered by a different seed supplier
@jaytoney3007 my chickens usually stop laying or slow down dramatically around this time and will pick up after the first of the year. If you really want them to start laying out a light in the coop. That will cause them to lay more in the winter
@@sandybottomhomestead I'm okay with them laying fewer eggs in the winter. I'd rather not stress them by tricking them into laying to get a few more eggs. One of my hens is a Speckled Sussex. They tend to lay eggs continously throughout the year. The rest are Rhode Island Reds. Bella, my largest hen, likes to be petted on her back and chest.
I usually swap above/below ground crops and make sure solanum plants are not planted in the same spot 2 years in a row
That makes it a lot easier