Fall is usually the time to begin our normal routine of planting our over-wintering crops of garlic and onions – and putting the rest of the raised rows to bed with a nice thick cover crop of annual rye. Although these chores will still take place in the coming weeks – this fall will include some additional work as we start to make a few upgrades to our garden space. The garden as it looked in late 2012. It is – and will always be – an ongoing process. The garden and raised rows have performed beyond our wildest imagination the last four years – but that doesn’t mean there are some things we have figured out through experience that might work a little better. So we decided it was time for a garden re-design with a little tweaking here and there. The Garden Pathways – Switching to a deeper mulch and a more permanent look. We have always kept the main garden walkway and the paths surrounding the outside in grass. We will use the same pea gravel walkways we use around the farm in our main center garden aisle. It was easy to maintain, inexpensive and quite honestly worked very well. But it had [...]
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