Here it is, mid-May and my home farm is starting to sprout little baby plants! I do believe that in-ground home farming is the most difficult – but we also made it the most difficult by planting so much! Just check out the photo below, do you think we went a little overboard?
I totally suggest that people keep it simple. Plant a small, manageable home farm, especially if you are embarking on this adventure for the first time. HomeFarming.com has some really valuable resources – how to plan your plot and experts to answer questions. My favorite feature of the Home Farming site is the social feature. I love chatting with other home farmers about our progress and frustrations. Plus, you can connect your facebook account to this site so you can share your progress with your close circle that way!
Despite the late season frost my plants endured recently, they are growing! I am so excited and looking forward to harvesting a bountiful crop in late summer! We planted a very wide variety of things this year, but I think I am most looking forward to fresh salad! We have Arugula, Kale, lots of lettuces, cucumbers and tomatoes!
Last year we learned our lesson. We purchased some products this year that have really made life and home farming much easier. The first one is Weed Block. It is a black tarp that keep random weed seeds from blowing and planting themselves near my seeds. As you can see, our plants are growing through the holes we cut for them, it makes weeding so much easier!
The other product we adore right now is the leaker hose from these nearby industrial hose suppliers. I can just turn on the hose and let it spray a fine mist on my entire home farm, without me having to go down with a hose and do it myself.
A perfect plant for children and beginners is the Radish. It flowers so quickly that it gives you a quick return on your investment of hard work. The leaves bloom very full too. Our Radish leaves last year were huge compared to our other plants. That being said, I don’t like to eat Radishes one bit. I’ll be giving away quite a bit of Radishes at church this year!
Here is another fun video! I take you through a walk in my home farm, let you see my buds up close and share my thoughts about the Deer situation.
This is a sponsored post for Triscuit. All ideas, thoughts, experiences are my own.
Wow your home farm is HUGE! I am impressed. I can’t wait to see the end results.
Annie you just amaze me, the size of our farm is INCREDIBLE. I can’t wait to see everything produced. I wish I had known about the weedblock before because I’m in my raised bed farm every single night plucking new weeds.
Your garden is looking amazing! You guys have such green thumbs to have such success – I’m jealous!
You have some great ideas there. I know my in-laws could use some of those items. They get a ton of weeds. Perhaps in their case they can’t use something like the tarp because they have such a huge garden.
Would you recommend these tools for larger gardens as well? or at that point does it become too expensive to use these things.