Foraged this morning: mint leaves & flowers, persicaria longiseta, hibiscus syriacus, vitus riparia (wild river grape leaves), aegopodium podagraria (ground elder or bishops goutweed), musk mallow, yarrow, viola sororia, taraxacum officianale (dandelion leaves!), rubus idaeus (raspberry leaves), beautiful little clover bunches...

...with rain descending, still, from what seems like a clear blue sky,...

...the early morning sunlight waking my skin, magicking my photoreceptors,...

...and glinting golden vital life-force upon every living being in sight.

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Building a Heated Raised Bed to Grow Cold Hardy Vegetables All Winter Long

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How To Make A Hotbed To Grow Food Through Winter
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Your winter project, should you choose to accept it, is to build this that will help keep your berry canes organized and upright to expedite picking. You can build the whole thing out of two by fours if you wish or use posts like you see here. Use hog panel or cattle panel or any thing you got laying around😀

“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well.

It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.

Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person.

But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce.

Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason
and argument.

That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."

—Thich Nhat Hanh

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' Creating Steep Hugel Beds: A Guide to Increased Garden Efficiency

Steep hugel beds, a variant of the hugelkultur gardening technique, are gaining popularity for their ability to enhance soil fertility, conserve water, and boost plant productivity. Recommended by permaculturist Sepp Holzer, these elevated garden beds have distinct advantages:

- Compaction Prevention: The steep slope minimizes soil compaction from foot traffic.
- Increased Surface Area: More planting space allows for greater crop diversity.
- Easy Harvesting: Height reduces the need for bending, easing '

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If you are looking for some frost-tolerant succulents, this is a decent list! I have grown several of these in freezing weather with success!

https://succulentgardenweb.com/frost-tolerant-succulents/

I would also add Sempervivum and certain types of Sedum as well. I have also had a measure of success with Senecio varieties like String of Banana and String of Dolphins, but they have to be somewhat established first. I did not have them exposed as far as having them out in the open in snow, but on the porch in pots and they didn’t freeze while many other things did.

I wanted to grow succulents in freezing temps for so long and kept getting frustrated when they died off every winter. Through trial and error and some looking around the interwebs a bit, I figured out what works. Hope this helps!

Note: Hens and Chicks and Sempervivum are the same thing, however, they are not always called that and there are a LOT of varieties of them, not just the cute little green ones :)