Happy New Year!
As usual, today I am posting our gardening goals for 2025.
- Finish Alabama Survival Gardening
- Finish The Good Guide to Food Forests
- Get a tiller for the tractor
- Get a bed-maker/hiller for the tractor
- Get a grapple for the Bobcat
- Set up the cane mill
- Get a cane boiling pot
- Make our own cane syrup
- Plant a patch of sorghum and make sorghum syrup
- Plant a good patch of corn
- Grow a large patch of ube yams
- Do better at growing potatoes
- Put in a large row-crop area with the tractor
- Plant the death hedge
- Expand the pastures
- Grow 5,000lbs of food
- Build a better chicken coop
- Get Leghorn chickens
- Add at least 20 cold-hardy citrus to the homestead
- Plant some modern pecan varieties
- Eliminate popcorn trees from the woods
- Plant papaya trees in the ground in the nursery
- Grow enough green beans to freeze for the year
- Grow enough tomatoes to make all our own sauce
- Make Steve’s mix again and balance our garden minerals
- Grow out the Grenada Black Pumpkin to start stabilizing it
- Grow 1000lbs of watermelon
What do you plan to do?
