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Gibs

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Well it's coming winter here in Ohio, but I am one of those who does it by cover gardening and you raise superior things easier and don't need a tiller or hoe.

My garden is covered with 3 to 5 inches of shreded leaves and wood chop of brush and green leaves mixed in.  Tremendous way to raise about anything you care to try in your area.  I have spinach in and up and garlic in and up and freezing will not hurt them and the spinach, I'll get a lot more by it having an earlier start with less length of row,

Do this url and if your computer is XP or slow connection, change the movie from HD in lower right corner by clicking it,

www.backtoedenmovie.com/  If I messed up the url from memory, i'll be back with it right, 

Blessings to all!

Gibs.



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I goofed, this is the right url, if it don't work by clicking on it, copy and paste in your browser as then too it is easier to go back as you may not want to watch it all in one session.

http://backtoedenfilm.com/

May you be Blessed,

Gibs



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NB

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A great video and I'm looking for a pile of aged wood chips to get things started for next spring!!  aww



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Gibs

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NB,  They don't have to be aged, use anything you can part in a row down to the soil and plant.  The first year, then use miracle grow in water out of a sprinkling can and go down each row enough to keep a deep green.  As the spring turns to summer you won't need to do that no more.  The decomposition and nitrogen will always be adequate from then on in it's natural form.  Legumes like peas and beans will make their own, just one pass at first with the sprinkling can will be needed with them.

Everything will taste better and is better too without doubt.  It is the only way to raise potatoes, keep enough cover over them so none are exposed.

My sweet corn, illini extra sweet, was unbelievable this year, huge stalks and huge ears filled solid to the end and sweet as honey.

I am a witness, everything does better, no watering in dry weather, no weeds to hoe, no tilling to be done and less disease and pestilence.

 

 



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Hey and a plus is, after a heavy rain you can go out in the garden, no muddy feet or boots to wash off after your visit to get you a vegie or a flower.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.



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Just can't hardly wait to try this....  !!  I just can't pick weeds like I used to no and NO TIME either....disbelief

I wish I had a bigger garden but doing the best I can... 



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Another plus I've found is most things the rows only need to be two feet apart, sweet corn, allow one stalk every foot and if you want two in a place, make them two feet apart.  Reaon being, no tiller is needed and you can make and break row spacings whatever is needed for the vegie.  Plant three short rows of Spinach a foot apart to fall past a two foot spacing, but it don't matter.  Do your garden at random spacings so you can get through handy.

Some plant two rows of small peas like Little Marvel six inches apart so they grow and interlock together and are not laying out everyway so much.  Those old time Little Marvel are my fovorite.

Your peas and bush green beans where the pods would normally be on the ground and get rotten, this don't happen on top of chips and other cover you may be able to acquire.

Tomatoes if more than one short row, do three feet and pole Lima's like Christmas Limas and 1 to 2 plants at a pole wigwam and 3 foot spacing for plants in the row as if more they get so thick it is hard to find them in all the dense folage.   Sometimes these beans are called "Calico Limas".  They are pretty and have a different taste than the other lima varieties out there.

I like to have a huge castor bean plant at each corner of my garden, mine got about 12 feet high this time and they are very tropical looking, many have asked what they are.  Keep them trimmed to one main stem or they will spread and cover a lot of space.  I like the tall green large leaf variety and they are good mole chasers.  I chop up the plants after a killing frost and spread them over the garden, any large stems can be left between rows and will decompose in time and you wil have them covered before long anyway before summer is over the following year.  An Axe over a wooden block will chop them into short chunks, the main stem being woody.

Gardening is very rewarding and Back to Eden gardening is even far more rewarding.  Gardening is sure a blessing.

Gibs



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NB

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I wish winter were over already!!  CAn't wait to get started again!!!  Still keeping my herbs alive though... and my kale is still doing well...  I love gardening!!biggrin



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NB, here in Ohio, lots of yrs kale will survive the winter and a few yrs I've had brussells sprouts that have, and man is it good to have a few messes of them in spring.  I dearly love them and eat them raw a lot and when cooking be careful to only cook to allow them to be crunchy and they are far better that way.

We soon are going to need all we can grow and it can be done is small places and more intense and close spacing can be done the back to Eden way and the soil is not disturbed and it rejuvenates  all the time, the cover keeps it from hardly any freezing most yrs and moisture retention is a great boon, many places where water is at a premium and we all have a drought year of rain every now and then.

A good garden is a blessing.

May all be blessed by it!

Gibs



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I've already harvested many seeds and thinking about what to plant next year!!  smile



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I am with you there NB, I also have and the pink brandywine tomatoes I now have are not as green shouldered from selecting and are smoother too.  They are for me the best fresh sandwich tomato there is.  I am anxious always for springtime and planting time, I love to have good things growing I know are pesticide free and raised totally organic in very rich organic soil now as I have built it up now 30 some years.

Blessings to all gardeners!

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.r



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Any of you not able to get much covering material, grass leaves wood chips and whatever that isn't contaminated in any way do a spot like this whether it is just a 10x10 foot place, do it.  Use a spot of grass if possible where there is no bad weeds that can come up through anything, some can even come up through thin blacktop, if you have to dig them all out, leave no roots of them.  Then wall the spot at least with 4" lumber, not treated, you don't want the contamination, use the best slow rotting lumber you can find.  Red elm, Sasafrass and Wild cherry without any white wood will last many yrs.  Walnut without the white wood is good too but so expensive.  Rough lumber found at a sawmill is the best place to look.  We have Amish mills around me here.

Put down 5 to 6 layers of news papers over the grass and load your covering stuff on top.  You can have great stuff the first yr. just water with miracle gro for awhile untill decomposition begins to deliver nitrogen, the second yr you will be surprised.   You can place stuff much closer as the need of plant food will be abundant to your plants and you need not room to get in and cultivate and pull weeds.  Just carefully step in and harvest.

You don't have to wall up the area but you will need to keep working the edges to keep the grass from invading your little garden which I must do around my 50 by about 75 fot garden.  But the amount of things I can grow in that space is fantastic.  I use a powerful string trimmer with a big line to do it.  I have a professional one as I used to do lawns after I retired to keep from using up my small retirement nest egg.

We have a place 6 miles from me the county each yr runs all the brush and leaves brought into this place and the tree companies dump their chopped brush and they run it through a big tub grinder and in summer they open the gates on Wed. and and is always open Sabbaths.  Well I of course get it on Wed. but they only open it May through Oct on Wed. so I with my old pick up truck haul in enough to do me the yr.   If I come up short, I use a grass catcher and use grass till there is some more chips to get which at first is not ground up but what the tree crews bring in i can use, coarse but that is ok.

There is great need now that we raise all we can and a far greater need is coming.  To store up a lot is no good as it will be taken from you.  EGW tells us of that and we know she is spot on.

Gardeners are Blessed, believe me, I know!

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.



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