The Summer Of Love: My Annual Garden Review For 2022
Homesteading, Gardening, Reflections Elizabeth Russell Homesteading, Gardening, Reflections Elizabeth Russell

The Summer Of Love: My Annual Garden Review For 2022

In a world where everyone has thousands of anxieties, I have only one big one: that I'm wasting time. That I'm inefficient. That I should get more done with the time available. It's why I'm so dang efficient, so bent on so many projects, why my brain can easily break down the number of mouse clicks an action will take and swiftly think of a way to cut at least two.

In the spirit of always improving, in making sure that next year is at least incrementally better, I'm taking a look back at the 2022 gardening season and all of my lessons learned.

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The First Summer!!!! My Annual Garden Review For 2021
Homesteading, Gardening, Reflections Elizabeth Russell Homesteading, Gardening, Reflections Elizabeth Russell

The First Summer!!!! My Annual Garden Review For 2021

I bet you thought that all of the exclamation points in this title were happy, joyous, triumphant ones. But I made some solid garden mistakes this year. And although experimentation and growing is always a joy, you can probably re-read those as shouting, exasperated exclamation points. Here’s what happened…

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Some Lessons from a Year of Hugelkultur
Homesteading Elizabeth Russell Homesteading Elizabeth Russell

Some Lessons from a Year of Hugelkultur

I was once that I am the master of parallel truths. And this is one: I’m quite willing to spend money while also being exceptionally frugal. It’s why I can justify buying a great big house, purely for its acreage, but can’t justify putting expensive garden structures on that acreage. And this is how we found ourselves making Hugelkultur beds in our garden this year, instead of building any sort of raised beds or other garden structures. Was this a good idea? Perhaps...?

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