Bed A: dried beans, probably
Indian Woman, and some edamane beans
Bed B: Spring crops—mustard,
peas, lettuce, radishes, kale, broccoli. All of which will be eaten by July (or
August, if the kale lasts that long).
Bed C: Garlic and ceremonial
wheat, to be replaced by sprouting broccoli and fall cabbage.
Bed D and E: potatoes.
Bed F: pole beans and yellow wax
beans
Turn the corner and move up the
other side, to….
Bed G: vines—zucchini, squash,
pumpkins, cucumbers
Bed H: Summer crops—chard,
lettuce, beets, collards, fennel bulbs, and more broccoli
Bed I: Alliums and
roots—scallions, leeks, beets, carrots, parsnips (if they sprout).
Tomatoes and peppers grow out
front where the driveway used to be in
black tubs.
Next year, each shifts over bed,
so garlic is planted where the potatoes were this year, etc.
The chicken coop will be placed
on the spring crop bed in early September, when I go back to school and they
can no longer run all over the yard anyways. A month later, all of the beds
will be covered in leaves for the winter.
This system works well for us
because it leaves beds free at predictable times. When I tried to plant by
crop, there were always a few random plants still producing right when the bed
needed to be chicken tractored.
Weekend Breakfasts….
Pancakes—from the 1955 Betty
Crocker’s cookbook
1.5 cups of flour—half wheat,
half low gluten white
1 t BP
.5 t BS
.5 t salt
1.25 cups of buttermilk
1 egg
2T oil
Add berries from the
freezer….This is just enough for two people, at least in our house.
Waffles—from Molly
Katsen’s Sunlight Café
PREHEAT THE WAFFLE IRON!
1 c rolled oats
1 c flour (I sometimes use half
whole wheat)
.5 c oat bran
.75 t salt
1 t BP
.25 t BS
2 T sugar
1.5 c buttermilk
.5 c water or milk
2 eggs
3 T oil
Once again, add berries from the
freezer to the batter, esp. raspberries.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your advice. I didn't rotate my tomatoes one year because I changed my crop rotationcrop rotation plans and ended up with a bad case of blight. Won't do that again. (Plus I read not to compost store-bought tomatoes because they can spread blight. So I stopped doing that, just in case.) Generally, I rotate my raised beds like this (but I still tweak things now and then, and add other minor crops to these main ones): Year 1 is cukes and cabbage family. Year 2 is tomatoes/peppers. Year 3 is legumes. Year 4 is zucchini. Year 5 is tomatoes/peppers. Year 6 is garlic/onions. Year 7 is compost and letting the bed rest (a biblical concept). I try to keep two years between planting plants in same spot. It's still a work in progress. But it's fun work.