No-Till Growers and Josh Sattin collaborated to post this Hoophouse Tips video interview of me talking about our hoophouse:
After a Best Ever day on November 7, 2019, when 876 people viewed my website (4,855 that week), December has been quiet. It’s not a big gardening month for most of us, and the month is full of holidays. And then there’s the urge to hibernate.
Nonetheless, I have been reliably posting every week, and you might have accidentally missed something, while entertaining the visiting aunts and uncles, or rushing to get the carrots harvested, or something involving food and drink. Here’s a chance to find the lost treasures!
December 24, I posted a Book Review: Grow Your Soil! by Diane Miessler
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Pam Dawling
On December 18, I posted Making Use of Greenhouse Space in Winter and Getting the Right Fork
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December 10, did you miss Yanna Fisher’s splendid purple ube?
And Josh Sattin’s video interview with me? Legendary Farmer on a Legendary Commune https://youtu.be/vLzFd4YP9dI
And Jesse Frost’s interview with me on his podcast No-Till Growers ? You can listen to it here and it’s also on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p75gRIl0Hzs
Photo Pam Dawling
On December 3, I posted Cooking Greens in December
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On November 26, I offered you a Book Review: Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening
My Top Six. no Seven, posts of all time:
Winter-kill Temperatures of Winter-hardy Vegetables 2016 with 23,776 views, peaking in November. Clearly lots of people want to know which crops will survive and which to hurry and harvest, or protect with rowcover.
Garlic scapes with 11,202 views. Garlic and sweet potatoes are the favorite crops on this site. Garlic scapes used to be under-appreciated and under-used. Not now!
Winter-kill Temperatures of Cold-Hardy Vegetables 2018 with 9,979, also peaking in November. My list gets updated each year as I learn new information. But the older ones come higher on internet searches.
Soil Tests and High Phosphorus Levels close behind at 9,503. High phosphorus is a worry for organic growers, especially those using lots of compost, as it can build up each year.
How to Deal with Green Potatoes at 8,613, with sustained interest through August, September and November. Obviously we are not the only growers with this problem, caused by light getting to the tubers.
Tokyo Bekana at 2,199 (who knew that was so popular?)
In 2019 other popular posts included Hunting Hornworms and the newer Winter-Kill Temperatures of Cold-Hardy Vegetables 2019. It takes a while for newer posts to gain on the older favorites.