any of you people thinking about next years gardens? | Food Production and Preservation | Forums

I am. I just got the new seed savers catalog and I'm already thinking about what I'm going to do to expand on the successes of my first year of gardening.

I'm also in the process of renovating the whole thing so I hope we carry this mild weather a bit until I'm finished.

I'm going from a bunch of random sized, randomly spaced raised beds to a series of 4x4 beds set up in a south facing U shape. I'm also burying a bunch of dead and rotting wood(from some old downed trees)under the beds to create a sort of permaculture "Hugelbed".

I'm always thinking about my garden, this years next years.

Danger has big plans, and I really like his ideas a lot. This years gardens weren't a great success for a number of reasons, and we want to do a lot more next year.

Our goal is to grow enough to eat, can, and begin selling to local restaurants.

We also want to get our infrastructure set up to have a four season harvest. We have some cloth and plastic over some beds and they are doing well, but it is only the really hardy greens that are holding up.

So I finally got a chance to get out there and take some pics.

The beets seem to be doing ok. The greens don't look all that nice but the ground has not been frozen at all so the tubers should still be doing well. I'm probably going to pull these later on today and pickle them.