"GOLDEN GAITS GARDEN"
WELLINGTON, COLORADO
We began our garden and duck-raising experiences at our first home together in Wellington, CO. We were married in 2008 and the garden began in 2009. Our first ducks arrived in 2011.
At that time our garden and duck experiences were outlined in our blogspot blog, Golden Gaits Garden. That blog has been discontinued and the posts regarding the garden are now archived here. The information regarding ducks can be accessed in our Ducks pages.
Note: Some (or all?) photos may be missing, or photo placement may be strange due to the import process. I’m working on that.
Deep Mulching 2013
After viewing the Back To Eden film, we decided to use this approach on all our garden beds. We’ve found a few places to attain free wood mulch, and covered all of our beds with 3-4 inches of wood mulch. Our results were both good, bad and indifferent, as follows,
Remembering the 2013 Garden
Obviously I have not taken the time to write about the 2013 garden. Because a few people do read this blog (thank you), I will put in some updates in case they are helpful to anyone. We learn new things each year as we try various new methods and experience
Thar’s Voles in my Peppers!
See the trench going under the plant! I’ve been noticing underground trenches in my pepper bed, starting at one end and on through to the other end. The holes are about 1 1/2-2″ in diameter, and go under the pepper plants, up again, down and up to the end of
GARDEN REFLECTIONS
I have noticed over the years (this was our 5th year of gardening!) that my attitude about the garden is more relaxed. If something doesn’t make it, I’m a bit sad, but shrug my shoulders and think, “Oh, well…”. Tim and I have an acronym we say, OWIIWII. We
2015 BREAK FROM GARDENING
I’ve been getting catalogs and emails from several of the seed companies I’ve ordered from in the past, and it’s sure tempting to take a look! Normally this time of year I’d be spending hours planning my garden and deciding which seed varieties I’d like to try. Not this year!