Blog Intro

I had originally not intended to keep a blog for this year's garden, but on second thought it will probably be clearer and easier to reference next year if it's in Web Format.

Our area - Pottawatomie County - is in Hardiness Zone 5:

We are not planning too big a garden this year, because I don't know if Monnie will be able to help with canning and Mom is not really interested. We will probably do cover crops on a few different garden beds, to hopefully enrich their soil so that next year we can do cover crops in the remaining beds, and use them for our garden - alternating different years like that.

I have been doing a lot of research on companion planting - "guilds" as they are called in the permaculture world. I am going to employ some of my discoveries this year and see how it works in our climate and our yard.