Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK I am finding that I can barely keep up with my quick greens production i.e. pea/sunflower/micro greens. Right now I have outdoor production on about 400 sq.ft. at my home plot, as well as a few dozen trayed indoor production...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Parsley is a good minor crop to consider. I started mine from seed in plug trays and them transplanted to Earthboxes. Containers seems to work well for parsley, so it can be a crop to grow in areas that you can’t otherwise...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK Because of SPIN’s scale, organic practices are quite feasible, and that includes for insect pest management. The method of choice is hand picking. Even acre size areas can be controlled that way.Bugs are brushed off by hand into a pail. Bugs...
Courtesy of Stefan, Good Time Farming, Squamish, BC I definitely believe that there could be huge benefits to not tilling or minimizing your tilling and from what I have read and heard from other growers who minimize their tilling habits. The benefits are discovered in the longer term – 5...
Courtesy of Steve W., Just Farmin’, Liberty Township OH I also believe in the no-till theory. The SPIN model is not based on no-till, it is based on producing food in an intense, high density planting concept to utilize small spaces to maximize production and profit in an affordable manner....
Courtesy of Andrew B, Moon Gravity Farm, Rossland BC Three years ago I added about 15 dump truck loads of leaves to my home garden (free, thanks City of Rossland!) to make a thick 3′ to 4′ layer before the winter. I planted potatoes in the mulch the following spring,...
Courtesy of Courtney T., Cornercopia Student Organic Farm, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN One of the systems I’ve set up on our farm is to have semi- permanent beds with white Dutch clover pathways between the beds. The beds are 2.5′ wide and the pathways are 2.5′ wide. The...
Courtesy of Terry C., Terry’s Berries, Tacoma WA Make sure you have enough calcium in the soil. We usually apply gypsum if we don’t want to raise the pH. Berries prefer an acidic soil, 5.5 to 6.5. Blackberries and blueberries even lower. I use the Albrect method that Acres USA promotes to...
Courtesy of Wally S., Wally’s Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, SK An upgrade of my cooling capacity last fall has enabled me to approach my spring potato sales entirely differently. My fall-harvested storage potatoes have all the appeal of freshly harvested new potatoes, so I don’t have to pressure myself to...
Courtesy of Paul, H., Victory Garden Vegetables, Cobourg, ON For me, it’s more the texture of the spinach leaves that change when it bolts, not so much it getting bitter. They’re not as succulent as younger spinach leaves are. It also becomes less lucrative to harvest because the leaves of bolting...
