Sunset Ridge Series - Year Two of A Homestead Garden

Gardening was passed down to both of us from our families. We’ve spent many hours of our lives prepping, planting, watering, wedding, and picking a garden. We plan to continue this well into our late lives, and passing the passion on to our boys.

On this episode we’re talking about garden follies from last year, what we’re doing to fix it this year, and what some of our plans are for the future.

Issues faced last year

• Planting our first garden at the new house came with many issues, including rocks… lots and lots of rocks
• Many of our taller crops (corn, okra, etc) didn’t grow to full height. It was stunted for some unknown reason
• Fungi killed all of our gourds and cucumbers
• Green Beans never made enough to eat

What we’re doing this year

• This year we’ve relocated our squash, zucchini, and cucumbers to separate areas in the garden so they won’t interact with each other, and to keep the fungi from killing both crops if it comes back. 
• Corn and Okra are planted with more spacing in between, and moved locations in the garden
• We will eventually have 7 rows of Green Bean plants (if they’ll ever come up)

Future Plans 

• Our plans really are the same. Provide fresh produce for ourselves, our family, and anyone in our area in need
• We will once again try to sell the bulk product at the local feed store
• We will be canning WAY MORE produce this year than last, along with saving seeds from our crops to replant with next year