What is green, crunchy and ripening right now?
Hello Everyone!
We are so excited to see the first cucumber of the year! We have been attentively caring for the plants anticipating an early production. Normally cucumbers will not flower or even grow until the night temperatures are warm. With the help of the heated soil in the Tomato House, the heavy frost blankets and a lot of determination we have the first cucumber of the season! Five weeks earlier than we have every harvested any. With 2 frost blankets the cucumber plants survived through a 1 deg. F night. They were fine, and I still laid awake worrying about them! Thankfully, they now reward me with the first cucumber and more to come!
High Performance Garden Show
The show is off to an amazing start and we are preparing the garden for a bountiful harvest to reach our goal of eating from the garden 365 days of the year. This week we focus on warm weather plants and sow cucumber, yellow squash, butternut squash seeds, and transplant the tomato plants grown to make sauce for the off season.
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Gratitude and Welcome
The Home Grown Food Summit was a success and offered a week of innovative presentations and community building. A big thank you to Marjory Wildcraft for spearheading this Summit which empowered so many to grow their own food and medicine.
A big welcome to the new members of our High Performance Gardening Community arriving via the Home Grown Food Summit, we are so happy that you have joined us and we look forward to sharing with you the skills of growing an abundant garden.
Educational Outreach Program
Ever wondered about the magic of soil? In the presentation video How the Soil Food Web Works in the Organic Garden you will learn the secrets of the soil food web and the relationship that the plants in the garden develop with the microbes.
Great Deals
This week we are showcasing the High Performance Garden eBook bundle where I share my insights and over 30 years of gardening expertise. This book will start any gardener or non-gardener alike on the path towards a healthy high performance garden!
In this ebook you will discover:
- How to grow like Mother Nature
- How to have a small but very productive garden
- How to grow disease and bug resistant plants
- How to plan your garden to get the food you want
- How to have a weed free garden
- How to have the garden of your dreams
Also included in this bundle:
Bonus #1: Gardener’s Guide to Perfect Soil: Learn to create the perfect garden soil that the plants love and will thrive in.
Bonus #2: Organic Bug & Critter Control Guide: This is the beginning of the end of those bugs and critters taking control of your garden. In this guide, you will learn the 8 techniques to diagnose problems in your garden and how to get rid of them.
Bonus #3: Easy Trellis & Cold Frame Guide: This is the best, easy to build, no tools, trellis system you will ever have. It is the one that we use in the High Performance Garden.
The ebook by itself is $19.95. We are offering the eBook plus 3 Bonuses for $14.95 for the next 7 days. Use this coupon code: EBOOK5 to get $5 off. The Coupon expires at midnight April 2, 2019. Go to eBook Bundle to get started!
"High Performance Gardening break down the mysteries of organic gardening into manageable bites. In this book, Lynn shares her vast experience of growing healthy, delicious food. It is a "must-read" for any home gardener." Elaine B.
Farm Life
Even after living on this farm for 30 years and watching the cycles of life emerge before my very eyes I still find so much wonder and truly there is never a dull moment. This week we are celebrating the arrival of the first 2 baby calves!
See you in the garden,
Lynn Gillespie
Garden Educator
"The first gift my garden gave me was challenge. I started my gardening career in a traditional row garden and soon found out the challenges associated with the archaic form of gardening. Back aches, blisters, heartaches, weeds, bugs and very little in return. But this first garden, my challenge garden, gave rise to me asking the question; Is there a better way? Can I garden in a way that is easier, more rewarding and takes less time? The snow soon came and covered up my challenge garden. Then the spring came and I started a new garden with new ideas." - Lynn Gillespie
P.S. Want to learn how to grow a weed free and bug resistant garden? Then get the eBook bundle to equip you with the tools for success! Click on eBook Bundle!
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