A continuation of my series on how to plan out your garden. This time we’ll deal with crop rotation. Every season I sit down for about 2 hours and determine what is going where. There are several factors involved in planning out a garden. The first is how much of each crop will you need,…
Yesterday I reposted how to schedule your plantings by the moon. To continue with my garden planning series, today’s post is how to determine how much you should grow of what plants per person. The very first thing you need to figure out when laying out your garden is how much room do you have….
The seed catalogs are starting roll in and with it comes the need to organize and figure out what next year’s garden is going to be like. So with that, I think right now is the prime time to repost some of my garden planning techniques. This first one is how to create a schedule…
You’ve probably noticed that the blog has gone through a few updates in the last few weeks. I decided to migrate it from Blogger over to self-hosted WordPress. I’m still tinkering with the design but hopefully I’ll have it nailed down soon. I really appreciate your patience while this migration goes through. It’s taking me…
Every year I take a look back on the varieties of plants we grew and how they did. Some years I’ll grow multiples varieties of one plant so I can choose the best one for our area. Other times I’ll just switch to a new variety completely to see if will work better. I’ve learned…
Now that I’ve got all the numbers I’m kind of depressed. It wasn’t bad in the grand scheme of things, especially with the animals, but compared to last year’s crops it’s low. The fruit trees don’t help. Of the 27 fruit trees we have we only got fruit off of 11 – less than half…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
