Can't say that I am planning to expand the gardens this coming year, I am working on a new hugelculture, and I will be adding more compost into the main garden, I do have plans to redo the wood chip bedding around all the blueberries bushes, and I will split a row of rhubarb plants to make another ten plants, right now I have 16 of them and I would like at least 30, I will be moving over splitting in the spring and adding more into the food forest layers, I will be moving over extra baby elderberries and black chokeberries bushes into the wild fruit rows.

Otherwise, its a steady as you go year planned, I added in a chunk of extra's this year and between the drought and the month plus off the farm for me looking after mom for surgery, Dh's off farm holiday (which was needed) but it meant that our typical farm-vaction time just didn't happen and things were harder then normal to keep under control.

16 rhubarb plants! Wow! We have none here. My mom just hasn't been able to get them to establish, but I suspect that's because she isn't providing them with what they like. It's a shame too, because I love strawberry rhubarb pie, and we have none of either. I'll have to rectify that next summer!
Love your blog, btw, keep up the awesomeness!

What do you have for livestock or access to livestock manure or what are you making your compost piles out of, while alot of folks talk about cow/horse for the rhubarb, I like to lay down a good layer of rabbit with a bit of fowl mixed in in the fall and let it rot in place and then dig it in in the spring, and that is what I transplant my rhubarb plants into, once they are well set up, do one small inground compost honeypot per four plants to keep them producing like mad for years to come..

Rhubarb is the first fruit of the spring and it along with apple is one of the best extenders you can get for the smaller fruits, only thing is that most of the smaller fruits will be ready well before the apples will be, making rhubarb very valueable in my kitchen and cellar/pantry..

As for finding some, ask at the local church ladies groups or in the spring, put a flyer up at the local grocery store, someone will split some off for you, I have never paid for rhubarb, its always a give away or plant free cycle etc etc..

Thanks for the kind comment on the blog!

A good friend has offered to let me have all the rabbit droppings I can find in her yard, (hers roam free), her chicken droppings as well as her pig and goat manure. right now my composters are full of vegetable matter. With 6 of us in the family, we generate lots of fruit and veggie clippings!
That's a great idea about putting up a notice in the spring that I'm looking for rhubarb! I never thought of that, and we have a local general store with a much-used bulletin board too!
One day, we'd like to have a few chickens, but I honestly can't see that in the next year. I want to be able to house them properly and offset their feed with grains I'd grow just for them, as well as some of the afore-mentioned kitchen scraps.

A couple of things really worth trying are Vegetable Spaghetti and Golden Beetroot 😀
The veggie spaghetti store very well like pumpkins and the golden Beetroot is just soooo nice...I make a beautiful salad with golden Beetroot that taste the very sun itself....hmmm have I tempted you to have a go? 😉
We are in the beginning of our growing season so the work is pretty full on at present...hardly got time to pick up my violin, but I am loving every minute of it 😀

Nothing speical this year as we are just getting into the gardening thing. We ordered some seeds from Hawthorn seeds and are looking forward to putting them in the ground. We are planting, King of The North peppers, Parade Onion, Marketmore cucumber, Cosmic Purple Carrots, Sugarbaby watermelon, Lovage Herb, Green Sprouting Calabrese Broccoli.

I just started my garden last year - I have 4 4'x4' raised beds so far, but the soil quality isn't great. I'm just trying to improve the dirt in them this year. If the year goes well, i'll build a couple more squares this fall and get some soil in them.

I have a few things I "want" to try this year...
First, I want to start some of my seeds indoors, like tomatoes and a few peppers.
The tomatoes did great last year from the garden center, the peppers...not so much.
Also on the seed starting list is broccoli and cauliflour...2 items that didn't have enough time last year planted as seed directly in the garden.
I also want to get some fruit going...strawberries and maybe blueberries, but also get some trees in like apple and pear.
Other than that it's just adjusting plant qty to get better yield qty...less parsnips and turnips, more peas and carrots.

Well, I am planning on all my normals, finished the big new hugelbed that we started in the fall, continue to work on the food forest, but the big "new" thing for the coming year is that I have permission to try hidden gardening in the forest privately owned by me..

I am planning on doing four sets of perennials, and four sets of this year only, tomato, squash, peppers and beans.

We might need to do a little rough bush hogging and we only want to go in x amount of times per season, we will need to ride in on horseback, haul in the black gold of the manure by pack horse and then set them up, it should be very interesting to say the least and I will take photos.. I will ideally be harvesting the tomtoa's green, the peppers green, green beans and was planning on acron squash, so I should have NO standout coloring on the area's to give them away.. we will see how it goes..

If folks are interested here, I will share the info as it happens along with photos, or I can just report the end yeild if folks don't find it that interesting.. let me know.

Farmgal is my clone. I have 18 rhubarb plants and need at least that many more. By the way, tomatoes and rhubarb can be grown together if there is enough space between plants to prevent tomatoes shading the rhubarb and plenty of poop. The rhubarb seems to deter tomato bugs but not the other way round.

My gardens are still in the development stage. I need to convert my cattle corrals to gardens, as they surround the pond. However, the fencing needs to be replaced and until I can get the new posts in I cannot plant. Tractors are hell on gardens plus it will take a year for the fresh cow poop to mature. Still replacing the fencing on the pastures which is a priority. I put in 243 fence posts myself last summer. I can add hand twisting heavy duty high tensile wire to my skill list. I could do without that one.

Once I get around to replacing all the florescent light fixtures in my converted pig>horse>chicken barn to LED bulbs, I will have plenty of lights in the future to start propagating seedlings. I have a good collection of seeds saved. I will plant corn, beans, squash, pumpkins in the corrals this year if we have an early spring and I get those posts replaced in time. Other then that I will plant tomatoes for seed saving in with the rhubarb again and continue using up my old rotten barn beams to build raised beds that will have sliding green house covers when time permits. I will fill those with the manure/bedding the milk cows are producing this winter and next spring maybe something good will come of it.

I have to find a spot to plant some potatoes as well. I just need to plant enough for seed potatoes for next year until I can get proper potato beds ready. Those won't come until I can find a new winter corral for the horses. Back to fencing again. No time for gardens.