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Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
Bit What I was thinking of is if you could find one or two of the shorter cabinets like the ones over your stove and fridge and then just set them right inside the apron to the crawlspace, removing that section of the apron so that you don't have to crawl in there. You could put some of that flat board type of insulation around the sides and back of the cabinet so that things wouldn't freeze. You would just need a secure lock to keep the critters out.
I hope that garlic does well for you. I have got to go looking at those tunnels and row covers. I also need to stop being such an airhead and remember to put the scallions in the dirt.
Name: Carol Noel Hawaii (near Hilo) It's all about choices.
I'm so lazy that when I harvest scallions from the garden, I cut them at the base, leaving the root part in the ground! I do the same with leeks too.... See, lazy!!!
Stormy, The house is passive solar with an insulated concrete slab in the living area that collects the heat from all that glass in the living room. It does a great job in the winter keeping the living room warm. That and the coal/wood stove provide all the heat for the house. There is also the old solar panels that was used to heat the water and it was tagged into the wood/coal stove. It worked very well between the sun in the summer and the jacket attached to the wood/coal stove in the winter, the electric water heater hardly ever turned on. That was shut down several years ago when there were problems with the holding tank
Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
I have to say that I think that overall my veggie garden produced pretty well this summer. Now aside from spraying the pole beans once early on when something was eating large holes in the leaves, I did not use any insecticides, not even of the friendly variety. I may have not have lost as many tomatoes and peppers as I did if I even sprayed them with Neem or Pyrethrin, but I didn't bother doing it.
We start with wood mostly just a fire at night or early morning to chase away the chill then when it is cold enough to keep a fire going all the time we switch to coal.
I sprayed very little on anything other than my brassicas (darn cabbage whites). I think I sprayed my eggplants twice with pyrethrin for flea beetles, but didn't need to spray tomatoes, peppers, beans, etc.
Overall, my production was good this year too. The drought was really hard on cucurbits, and I had a lot of problems with my tomatoes, but still managed to get plenty of food
Name: Sally central Maryland slef employed writier
I sprayed very little but should have , so as not to lose my swiss chard. Flea beetles and cabbage caterpillars. I've nevr sprayed tomatoes or beans or cukes or squash.
"If you bring joy and enthusiasm to everything you do, people will think you're crazy" W. Haelfeli, New Yorker cartoon
Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
My Chard has been surprisingly unbothered by most pests. Maybe Sally, it's just a small amount cooler enough here that whatever pest has been destroying yours, doesn't thrive so well here. Even my cabbage didn't get bothered all that much. Now something has been eating the Brussel Sprout leaves.
I have problems with the same two pests, but they haven't touched my chard. My chard took a beating in the hurricane this year, but hasn't had any pests to speak of. The flea beetles only want to eat my eggplants, and the cabbage worms go after my Brassicas. Strange how the same bug can act so differently.
Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
This page over in the Bucket Gardening cubit has a number of home made recipes for bug and fungus controls. Some seem worth trying. Just the cinnamon dusting on cuttings is easy enough.
I'm not sure. I've read that sprouts can "get leafy" if their soil isn't compact enough, but I'm not sure if that meant they'd put more energy into foliage, or that the sprouts would come out funny. About half of mine have prematurely grown their sprouts, which come out open and leafy instead of closed like little cabbage heads, but I'm leaving them in the ground to see what they do.
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