Living on a homestead, is about freedom and providing for yourself, your family or others. On your homestead you will want the ability to grow some food in a garden if at all possible. You do not need a lot of room or land but you will need the following minimum to grow veggies:
1) a spot with good sunlight for 6-8 hours of a summer day
2) lots of water
3) a fence to protect your plants from critters
4) good soil or fertilizer or make your own
5) a mulch pile to add organic matter to your soil
*see my post on that here:
http://spiritandtruthdiscernment.blogspot.com/2020/04/compost-pile-for-homestead-preparing.html
Once you have those 5 things, you are ready to grow you own veggies. We prefer container gardening over roto-tilling soil and growing in the level ground. We live on very rocky soil so we choose container gardening. It allows us to work higher off the ground, control water and soil quality right to the plant so we like that! Here is what you will do to start a container garden:
1) you need containers to grow in. (we use 55 gallon drums cut in half and good amount of holes in bottom for drainage but you can use 5 gallon buckets too as the are easier to move around)
2) rocks for the bottom of your containers for drainage
3) add good black soil (we also add a thick layer of leaves in the bottom that will turn to mulch)
4) add organic matter to soil like manure or from your compost pile after it has seasoned for months. Till then, get locally form a farmer or buy some bags of good manure compost and mix it in the top 6 inch layer.
5) add leaves or straw on top and put a layer of manure (we get local rabbit manure its the best!!)
For us, this is our summer plan this year as we are not planting a garden in 2020, we are just getting a garden ready to go. But in fall, we will add our compost and mix it in. Then put leaves on top and let it sit all winter ready to plant in spring 2021; if we need it.
If you are planting this year, skip the adding leaves on top and you are ready to plant asap!
Do your own research and decide what you will grow for your certain area. We are simple gardeners / eaters so we do beans, tomatoes, squash, spinach, greens, cucumbers etc and we dry much of ours for winter needs and eat fresh all summer.
It is not complicated but it is HARD WORK!!!! If you like the outdoors and freedom... you will love it I think!
We will be adding a rain catching system for watering and other garden related things to assist you in your homesteading so, stay tuned here.....
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