With the gardens completely put away for the winter, I start to enter my least favorite time of the year. I’m not sure what I will be posting for the winter months-I kind of feel like I need to add something, but not sure what. I will be involved in some trial things Mel is looking at to add to his available products from the foundation. Maybe I will just do some updates on those. Two of these things should be a lot of fun. I just received the instructions for one of them, and maybe I should put that on as a post because I will need to know if anybody here speaks Japanese. That’s the language the instructions are written in. But, the product looks very promising. Its a special cover that is used to protect plants that help to heat up the gardens, stop them from getting too hot, and completely eliminate things like the white butterfly that seems to destroy brussel sprouts, cabbage, etc. The Japanese instructions are to an apparatus that supports this growing cover.
I just received the new Johnny’s Seed catalog. Its my favorite one of all the catalogs that arrive this time of the year. They have added quite a few new things in this one. It looks like they have spent a lot more time on helping growers to increase their profitability with some additional ideas. Those covers they sell for CSA’s look like a lot of fun. But, I don’t have the room to do that, and I don’t have the time. That is why I will be selling just one “share” of fresh produce and veggies to one family this upcoming season. It will be an experiment, but I think I can do just as well as some of the local CSA’s. I will provide a little more than what they normally receive. One of the things I will be growing is strawberries. The 3X3 red box you see in this picture was used for this last year. But, I will be planting a new variety of strawberries-the ones that are bigger. You can also see what I use to protect them from the birds. It works great. I made it to fit right over the box and to rest on the ground….
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