Gardening Guide

The Dedicated garlic Bed, year 2. Elephant Garlic grown from cloves, last year, Produced a single large bulb if garlic, as a Onion. No cloves. Those “bulbs “ replanted in row 1 . Right side of the photo. Center row is a repeat of last year, purchased cloves of Elephant garlic planted after the coldest part of the winter here in the mountains of North Carolina. Note that both were planted within a day or so of each other. The row on the left is a hard neck white garlic that I grew last year. Overwintered indoors ( dried

This is the first in a series of posts describing our learning process and how the ingredients for Korean Natural Farming Solutions can be made. Here is a Garden Group member’s description of the calcium phosphate solution process. KNF Calcium Phosphate, water soluble I carbonized heavy bones, bird bones are not suitable. I made soup from boiling ham bones… until all but bones left. Clean bones free from tendons, meat, fat, marrow. I have a can that I saved, to use as a simple Retort. (To isolate the bones in a container, To allow gases generated by extreme heat,

One of the Vital solutions of Korean Natural Farming is the introduction of Indigenous Micro Organisms (IMO) into the soil to promote health and vitality. IMO is collected by taking a box made from natural materials, 2/3 filled with hard cooked rice, with a breathable lid, and burying it up to 1 foot deep, under leaves and soil in an area near trees that has not been disturbed, that has has mycelium visible in the decomposing matter and soil. Here are the notes from a member of our group who successfully collected IMO Mid June and I am finishing