Red Bucket Farm

As the growing season slowly comes to an end, I'm experimenting with drying herbs for cooking use as well as for my chickens. A far...

One of the challenges of urban farming is learning how to keep all the garden beds productive through the fall months. This morning...

Every year my gardening ambitions exceed my ground space, and so I use containers as overflow.  Many herbs grow well in pots. I'm gro...

In April I planted two different varieties of onion: Copra hybrid for long term storage through the winter, and Candy hybrid for sweet ea...

Our little greenhouse is a hard-working element at Red Bucket Farm. In March we began raising seedlings inside the greenhouse. We start...

On Saturday, we volunteered as one of a dozen host sites for the Mad City Chicken Coop Tour. Visitors began arriving just after 9 am and con...

I planted tomatoes and basil today. Spring is really here! Yay! I started three varieties of tomato plants by seed in early March, firs...

A week ago my onion bed looked tired. The leaves had been flopping over for several days and it wasn't due to lack of water. The plan...

In my life as a Wisconsin gardener, much of my thought process is about how to get bushes, vines, trees, chickens and bees to survive th...

On Saturday we moved the greenhouse to a sunnier location. The aluminum frame greenhouse with polycarbonate panels isn't very heavy, so...

Overnight temperatures dipped into the mid-20s last night and early this morning. Winter is slowly creeping upon us. Although the greenhous...

It's important to try growing new things in the garden each year. One of my experimental crops this year is muskmelon. (I grew up think...

Our small unheated greenhouse is proving to be a wonderful gardening tool. Today it is so crowded with seedlings and potted plants that I ca...

We have the usual spring blossoms at Red Bucket Farm---tulips, daffodils, trillium, bleeding heart, wood violets, jack-in-the-pulpit, and da...

I got spring fever early this year. I needed to do something garden-related, so I started some perennial flowers by seed indoors in very ear...

I have always loved a greenhouse. I love the way the soil smells clean and earthy, the humidity steams my skin and hair, the plants may be b...

Spring in this part of the country is a fickle thing. Yesterday was spring----I hung jeans out on the clothesline and mopped up leaking wa...