Time lapse garden winterization
I set the camera up in
time-lapse mode while I started putting the garden to bed. And in the
process, I came to two conclusions....
Conclusion one: sowing
an oat cover crop beneath ailing summer crops
in mid August sure makes this task more inspiring. I'm not just pulling
out the dead, I'm making way for homegrown organic matter in the spring!
Conclusion two: Mark was right. I managed to pull out one
tomato stake, but the others are so deeply embedded in the clay subsoil
that they might as well have been set in concrete. Are we really going
to have to buy a post puller for five measly stakes?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Cut 20 ft. half inch rebar into stake lengths. Use vice grips to twist back and forth till loose. This is much cheaper than normal stakes.
With standard stakes, use a 2x4 fastened with rope, wire or chain to the stake.