Huggin' the Earth : The Home Place

Aside from the chickens and the mushrooms, we have tried to create a well rounded completely organic garden at our house. To keep organic we use compost and bat guano for fertilizer and use a oil/baking soda mixture and 70% Neem Oil for pest control. The pictures below will show a lot about it. But there is nothing better than eating my wife's great zucchini bread with a squash from the back yard or adding some fresh dill and lavender to a veggie dish or adding some basil and oregano to a steak marinate. Anyway, it started with a raised bed made out of recycled 2 x 4's. Then we added leaves and 500 earth worms-Uncle Jim's Worm Farm. From there we were off. We tilled some other spots in the back yard and has some successes and some failures. The red and gold beets did not do well neither did the radishes, okra, or beans, but the Summer Garden is making up for that. We have tomatoes (sugar cherry, yellow brandywine, hillbilly, Arkansas traveler), peppers (CA Bell), and strawberries (early and ever bearing varieties) in the raised garden . We have some awesome zucchini, parsnips, rainbow carrots, broccoli, brussel sprouts, sugar pearl corn, and my fair lady corn, silver slicer cucumbers, black mountain watermelons, and tall and dwarf sunflowers in the other gardens in the back yard. There is a Brown Turkey Fig on the opposite of the yard for preserves. Below are some photos-

The Start of the Home Garden and the Greenhouse-