gardens and population density
These 35 foot rows in our kitchen garden tell a big story. This is a generous year's worth of onions, mostly sweet Spanish yellow, in two beds; two beds of cabbages, flanked, in the early growing stages, with carrots and beets, and interspersed with nasturtiums to discourage cabbage moths. The onions came out in July and were replaced with a second planting of cucumbers, a fourth planting of green beans, and a nursery bed of kale and fall cabbages. The late and the long-season cabbages will be harvested in October; what isn't made into kraut will store passively in the basement until we want it for bubble-and-squeak.
When all of that is done it will be winter and then we'll run chickens over this garden until spring.
Who says high population density is a bad thing? Come to the fall farm skills workshops and we'll talk more.