[wilderness bushman]

asparagus bed i started with seed from my own plants,, these i want to transplant next year as much as i can anyway

 

[wilderness bushman]

my only june bearing strawberry out of 40 crowns ,the bags of crowns were junk but i can propagate from this one

 

[citykittyatheart]

Looks like you've been very busy this season! Good for you. Regarding the bucket watering method, yours is similar to mine. I use buckets for exactly the same reason: to be able to meter how much water I'm giving. It works better than guessing My potato harvest this year was much better for it!

 

[wilderness bushman]

it speeds it up for me ,i can hit them with a five gallon bucket in each hand and in a few minutes i know they got a gallon of water,,this was the driest year i have ever seen here and to keep all the trees alive was a task i am glad to have got done ,, besides after i can use the bucket to start different plants in to transplant whenever i get a chance

lol can you tell i like ice cream?

 

[wilderness bushman]

put the thorn babies [goose berries] to bed for winter, i am using the "strawberry" bed,,,it was tilled ,,,enriched, and covered in cardboard and wood chip mulched,, but only had 1 crown grow, so under the plastic is mulched cardboard as you can see in first pic ,,,i dished it out under each pot[moved mulch] ,so there is a water reservoir under each pot . with the mulch on top of plastic it will protect it from sun ,,, and keep the bed under it weed free

 

[wilderness bushman]

started to harvest "seed potato" patch,, almost a 5 gallon bucket out of 1/4 of patch , so far going to plan ,a lot of the potatoes are about chicken egg sized so no need to cut in spring ,unless i really need to stretch the seed out

i sort of got the idea from another member here when he was talking about growing potato under low light [winter] to get larger potatoes to make seed,, if i recall correct it was mountain?

 

[roseman]

Haven't seen him post in quite a while.

 

[wilderness bushman]

Haven't seen him post in quite a while.

i imagine he is busy trying to get ready for winter, bringing in crops, getting wood ect

 

[wilderness bushman]

plot #1 put to bed for winter, all tilled and ready to roll if need to be i think i could row crop this in spring with just a hoe and rake ,plot size is 67 feet long [e-w]and 39 wide [n-s]

 

[wilderness bushman]

in above pic you can see the top of the propagation/strawberry bed,, it goes to other corner of garden so its dimension is 62x4

the hostas were in compost ,and i had read they were edible so why not lol, next bed down is Egyptian walking onions

from there down a good ways is asparagus plants

this was a good day of tilling ,and about two gallons of gas,,this ground has been being improved[compost / horse manure] with growing for several years,, this year was a till to better depth and to weed year so not planted this year

 

[citykittyatheart]

How much of your veggies do you grow then? All you can eat? Half? How many square feet do you have under cultivation?

 

[wilderness bushman]

How much of your veggies do you grow then? All you can eat? Half? How many square feet do you have under cultivation?

usually i grow more than i stand a chance of eating, or putting away ,,,but i dont buy many veggies or potatoes and besides the work involved the extra i sell most years pays for all the cost plus

well lol i got at least a acre i have tilled and gardened at one time or another, some of its been turned into berry beds and other longer term crops like asparagus or left fallow a year or so ,, and if you include the newer fruit trees [planted this spring] i am doing over a acre

the above plot could pretty well give me enough veg and spuds for a year if i put most of it into root crops and added a few rows of beans ect in there

just a rough guess but given a good year and the help to plant /take care of i think what i got going could feed several people a good percent of their food needs ,might get boring ,,,spuds ,,,beets ,,,carrots and stew type veggies and allow a couple people to hunt /fish to help add protein and flavor to harvest

 

[wilderness bushman]

i wish i knew how to strip the info from google maps so i could show how i got my place set up, part of what i do here is to prep my place so if TSHTF i stand a chance of eating and helping a few people out even if it turns into a long term problem

my other belief is that its sort of a duty to improve the ground you own ,,,not so much for me as for the future owners in a lot of ways , i have planted trees [ Butternuts native 2 zones south of me] that usually do not bear for 15 or so years and only start to really bear after 20+, my chance of getting a crop is slim ,,,but sometime someone might find them and get some good from them

 

[citykittyatheart]

Have you tried screen shots? That might work when all else fails.

I can relate about the fruit bearing trees. Getting plums to eat has been a many year journey, even though the trees I've planted were supposed to bear in 3-6 years. Garden and learn

 

[wilderness bushman]

yep my first few tries of fruit trees got wasted by my feral rabbits lol

 

[wilderness bushman]

got the new orchard cleaned up for winter,,,mowed it short so the mice /voles would stay out of area a bit ,,,once the snows deep they still might tunnel into them ,,,but not that often they like to be on top of ground and under a grass cover

 

[wilderness bushman]

and a few pics of crops that have took

 

[wilderness bushman]

in first pic above is row of asparagus and to the left is 3 beds of raspberries


second pic is a few fruit trees that are struggling but still holding on ,,to the right of trees is some asparagus i started in a planter 4 years ago ,,,transplanted at 2 years old,, this is hopefully the bed for asparagus i got in propagation bed given enough plants its planned for 4 100 foot long rows

 

[wilderness bushman]

got 4 five gallon buckets of seed potatoes dug and inside,, still got a bucket or more to get out yet ,,and got one done a week ago so a total of 5 out of "seed " patch

 

[wilderness bushman]

cleaning out my bee hives,,melting all the wax down and building swarm traps/hives, about 2/3 done with hives ,,,this is wax from that so far ,,the lighter colored wax is more honey comb ,,,the darker wax is more brood comb