Stories from Bifurcated Carrots
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A Green Garden
Bifurcated Carrots &bull Yesterday
Several bloggers have been talking about environmentally friendly and/or cheap gardening recently.A For example Kenny at Veggie Gardening Tips and Jane at Horticultural.A For me these topics are almost one and the same, and I thought I would do a post on this too. The cheapest and most environmentally thing for your garden is the thing you don't buy!A Every time you buy something it needs to be manufactured or produced, then packaged and transported.A If you buy it from a… Full Story »
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Artichoke Pictures
Bifurcated Carrots &bull Jul 23, 2010
Except that winter here is a little wet, I have a pretty good climate for growing artichokes as a perennial.A Generally by partly covering the artichoke to protect from direct rain, it will keep dry enough to survive the winter.… Full Story »
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Garlic Harvest 2010 Begins!
Bifurcated Carrots &bull Jul 17, 2010
I started today harvesting my first few garlics.A The Asiatic Turban and Creole types always need to be harvested a little earlier that the others, so I started with these.A Even though there are several different varieties of garlic in… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Garlic
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Garden Pictures July 2010
Bifurcated Carrots &bull Jul 7, 2010
Garlic rust is back.A I haven't been paying close attention, but I think my plants have had it about a week now.A In about two weeks I'm going to begin harvesting, so it doesn't matter any more.A The garlic will be fine.A Like I've posted about before, I sprayed dilute milk on the plants… Full Story »
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Dutch Psyche from a Gardening Perspective
Bifurcated Carrots &bull Jun 19, 2010
I've tried a few times in the past to make posts explaining life as an American living in Holland, and it's hard to do.A Anyway, the story of how this burn barrel came to be in the plot next to mine at my community garden is in many ways a good metaphor for so many things here, so I thought I would take another stab at it. This plot was just assigned a new gardener. It's a very isolated spot and positioned in a way that I'm pretty much his only neighbor.A The new gardener, as well as not having… Full Story »
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Drip Irrigation Systems
Bifurcated Carrots &bull Jun 1, 2010
With advent of special agricultural practices, researchers have shown great interests in discovering unique ways of watering farm in short duration of time with minimized wastage of water. One can also gather huge amount of output from the farm under programmed watering through specialized irrigation techniques. The irrigation technique like drip irrigation has enhanced productivity of crops in many ways.… Full Story »
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Bloom 2010 Dublin, Ireland 3-7 June
Bifurcated Carrots &bull May 8, 2010
I was recently contacted by someone representing Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board and the sponsors of Bloom, and asked to say something about their upcoming event. While I'm told Bloom 2010 will include 25 large, medium and small show… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Phoenix
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Beds, Ground Cloth and Water Butts
Bifurcated Carrots &bull May 6, 2010
I posted the other day about how I prepare my garden beds, and I've since had a chance to take some pictures. I want to emphasize I'm not necessarily saying this is the best way for everyone, but it's the system I've come up with after gardening in the Netherlands… Full Story »
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Mulching, Sheet Mulching, Lasagna Gardening and Raised Beds
Bifurcated Carrots &bull May 2, 2010
C and N are everywhere in the garden, and all composting and rotting is a reaction between these two elements. Dry brown plant materials are high in C, and green plant materials and manures are high in N. In addition there's N present everywhere in the air, and it's an essential nutrient in the ground. All plant and animal life depends on N. If you want to use mulch to kill established plants with roots deeper than a few centimeters,… Full Story »
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Christopher & Rosemary
Bifurcated Carrots &bull May 2, 2010
Chris recently sent me an email, among other thing to tell me about thier permaculture blog. They really have a lot of good information - and a lot of unanswered questions! If you're new to permaculture style gardening, it's a… Full Story »
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Topics:
- Permaculture
