This is the year to concentrate on our gardens

If I can borrow the money from my husband's 401K, or find someone to loan me the money, we will have a high tunnel here this year. My goal for the high tunnel is to grow all the plants we need for salsa, as well as growing extras for canning tomatoes for other uses and lots of garlic and onions for general use. I am hoping for lots of peppers and carrots for our own use. I'd really like to grow corn, beans, squash, cukes (pickles), cabbage (sauerkraut), and herbs. But, all of those will be grown outside of the high tunnel. I'd like to grow enough to preserve food for us and our daughter, and maybe have enough to sell at market. This year's other growing goal is to grow LOTS of herbs and flowers and most of the plants necessary for dyeing wool. I'd like to make my own teas and have dried herbs available for cooking and soap making. Now that we are not on the road everyday for 6 straight weeks, we are home more and can start working towards these goals!! These are the ways my grandfather taught me to garden. I don't remember spending a lot of time in my grandmother's kitchen learning canning, preserving and cooking as I am such a tom boy who wanted to be outside all the time. And, I certainly didn't learn it from my own mother as she worked full time and could barely get a meal on the table. All 3 of us kids learned to cook early on for self preservation. I thank my Home Ec teacher for teaching me a lot about food and preserving it! I love the idea of a victory garden and may see if I can impliment their plans. I love the idea of cutting and dropping the plant in place to rot into the garden thereby fertilizing the ground below it. We generally send the sheep and the chickens into the garden to clean it up as we have plenty of manure to put on top of the garden at the end of the season. My grandfather taught me no till gardening and companion planting. Practices I am still using 60 years later. The modern victory garden The Original Victory Garden