Happy New Year!
It’s time for the annual “goals” post. This is what we’d like to accomplish:
- Build a chicken coop at the store
- Get signage on the front of the store
- Pay off our inventory loan
- Build a demonstration garden at the store
- Graft a few hundred fruit trees (especially Southern apple varieties)
- Get Randall White to do a grafting demonstration at the store
- Fix all the lighting in the store
- Make more biochar
- Create a big food forest tree area at the empty area at the back of the lot
- Post more on the blog than in 2025
- Fix the cane mill and make cane syrup
- Continue the corn landrace
- Continue the Zombie pumpkin landrace
- Continue the watermelon landrace
- Start at least 200 Everglades tomato transplants for the store
- Source chinquapins for the nursery
- Plant the death hedge
What are your goals?
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If you’re grafting shell apple, I’ll happily buy one.
Those are some pretty good goals.
Here’s mine for the garden this year.
1) successfully propagate for the first time – seed, cutting, amd graft
2) grow 150 lbs of sweet potaote
3) thin 3 acres of forest and start transition to food forest
4) continue land races for corn, sorghum, cucumber, etc
5) figure out how to grow enough pumpkins for the year
6) fill the freezer with geese.
Wish I could come work for y’all! Some of my goals are to stay busy, be online less and create more, be it glass beads, soaps, paintings, and/or gardening. Also, would like to go on more hikes and walks with the dog and my love.
Hallo, ek wou jou prys ken.
My goal is to try to learn/implement more companion/intercropping, but I already have some questions….
Looking at how I usually space my plants (ala Steve Solomon’s “column 3” from spacing chart in _Gardening When It Counts_) it’s hard to adapt that to what I view as companion planting. I’ve had good success with Steve’s approach to spacing, but it seems like companion cropping might be at odds?
What has been your experiences?
You know… I planted everglades tomatoes in town (a number of years ago), and they self-sow like mad.
I dig up the plants as they get large enough, pot up and eventually bring out to the sand, and share around in town, as well. Not sure why I can’t get stuff to self-sow in the sand.
I sure would appreciate a primer on grafting, I’d like to graft my good pears to the callery root stock. I tried once, and when none were successful, gave up.
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