{FSC Time Machine} Gardening in 2012

For the next handful of weekends, I’ll be jumping on the FSC Time Machine to create recap-posts of the  different topics we covered in 2012.

Since Dianna, hit it out of the park this week with her post {Gardening in 2013} Homegrown Dry Beans, I thought I’d kick-off the series with our gardening posts!

Get out your seed catalogues, a pen & paper and let’s get planning!

• First up, Heather, took us on a journey through the years of her every-growing garden, in Making the Most with One Acre. Great tips on how to gradually grow your space each year and how to maximize the space you have.

• Second up, Dianna’s informative piece on Crop Rotation.

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  cover crop to the right, main crop in the middle, home garden, to the left

• Next up, for all those who desire to start their plants from seeds, Deanna wrote ‘Guide To Starting Seeds’

Organic “Beefsteak” and Heirloom “Big Rainbow” Tomato Seedlings

• We were lucky to have two posts on ‘how to’ garden plots:Dianna’s piece on the Hügelkultur technique (Hügelkultur, which is a technique of making a raised bed, or Hügel (pronounced more or less like heu-gle, with the “eu” as in the word “feudal,” but slightly more exaggerated), on top of a pile of brush or a rotting log.)

The finished Hügel

• and Jillian’s piece on how to quickly compost yard for garden plots w/ newspaper, The Busy Person’s Guide to Starting a Perfectly Fine Garden.

• Our Northeast Grain Expert, Amy Halloran , shared tips and her ups & downs for growing wheat on an urban plot in Troy, NY.

my warthog wheat

• Dianna continued her soil-care series with a piece all about Cover Crops

buckwheat next to a kale

• In a garden tour format, Erika shares her experiences & pictures with having an edible front yard.

Sugar baby watermelon on newly laid straw.

• Dianna & Amy both grow wheat, and back in July Dianna shares her instructions for making an Homemade Wheat Thresher.

Feeding wheat into the thresher

• Later in October, Dianna shared her thoughts & tips from three full years of wheat production (she included a cracker recipe!)

Sheaves of wheat on the front porch

• Our last 2012 piece on gardening, Amy ponders Fall Plantings.

There’s More: Our Gardening Posts From 2011

• Planning Your Garden from January 29, 2011
• Dianna’s first post on growing & harvesting wheat and what they do with it…

• Erika shares her personal story of learning patience through gardening.
• Not garden-specific, but its almost Maple Tree Tapping Time: Dianna wrote a ‘how to’ post on tapping Maple Syrup.
• Compost 101
• May is the Time to Plant Your Garden
• July is for Garlic Harvest
• How to Braid Garlic
• Christine shows us easy & apartment-sized growing: SPROUTS!
• Dianna’s more in-depth post about growing & harvesting wheat.
• September is for Eggplants