One Year -- One Ton of Fresh Food: Fall

Want to grow food for your family all year? This is the first post in a four-part series, sharing how I supply my family with fresh garden produce through all four seasons.
Fall gardening in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, plant hardiness zone 6b.
Organic fall broccoli is easy in the cooler temperatures of fall.
Cold-hardy greens take a heavy frost with ease -- it's amazing to watch them thaw without any damage.
Mother of a Hubbard
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  • White Oak Studio Designs White Oak Studio Designs on May 16, 2014
    What is your secret to such large vegetables, they are giantic? Compost? Fertilizer? Or?
    • Mother of a Hubbard Mother of a Hubbard on May 17, 2014
      I grow using organic methods, with an emphasis on keeping the soil healthy. That includes using cover crops with minimal tillage, and adding organic amendments like compost. I sometimes use organic fertilizers like fish/seaweed emulsion, but I actually ere on the side of too little nitrogen, to prevent excessive growth that would make my plants susceptible to insects and disease.
  • White Oak Studio Designs White Oak Studio Designs on May 17, 2014
    Your soil must be incredible. (We have very lean, oak savannah forest soil that I have worked on improving for the past 13 years.) I have never seen such huge vegetables as yours. We too are no till, all organic here (homemade compost, well composted horse manure, fish emulsion) at the Small House Big Sky Garden but our vegetables are miny sized compared. You are an amazing gardener! Thanks for your reply.
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