~SUSTAINABLE LIVING FOR CHALLENGING TIMES

[sumisu]

Actually a friend stopped by with his new drone. Pretty nifty and for once I can see all of my garden areas in three pictures. Thanks.

I had one under-performing area, so I emptied out one small raised bed and will replace the area with six 15-gallon plants next to a white fence to promote growth.

All the trellises have been put away, but a city garden depends greatly on them. I grow long beans on tee-pee trellises and squash on wire vertical fences.


FORTEX POLE BEANS


TETSUKABUTO WINTER SQUASH


TETSUKABUTO WINTER SQUASH

I've been cooking a lot more; example below.


Ingredients from the garden included potatoes, cherry tomatoes, string beans, garlic, onions, chili peppers. I used a little salt and cooked in olive oil bought in a store.

Planted the hard-neck garlic: German Extra Hardy and Music





Going forward for 2021, I will reduce my garlic planting by one bed, and increase my potato plantings. If there is a food shortage next year, it's better to have more potatoes than most foods.

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