Episode 103: Preparing the Aquaponics System and Garden Beds for Winter
Today, we talk about what steps I will take to prepare the aquaponics system for winter, as well as go over what you can do now to get your garden beds ready for a great spring!
Tales from the Prepper Pantry
- Phase 1 has been completed
- Final canning events of the year (after Jack’s)
- Drying Mushrooms
- November: Meat rotation in the freezer
- Time to extract honey, or package it in tinfoil to avoid freezer burn
- Gluehwein season is here
What Mother Nature is providing
- Ap: Swiss chard and not much else at the moment
- Time to winterize. More on that later
- Winterize the bees
- Mushrooms are exploding
- Firewood
Stump the Sauce
- Oxtail: Part 2 with BRETTChef
- Elderberry Syrup Stability with John Moody of (http://abbyselderberry.com/)
Operation Independence
- Tile, Tile, Tile, Tile on the rental that has taken forever. Tiling on a wavy wall (operation independence)
- One annoying thing season
Main topic of the show: Winterizing the Aquaponics System and garden beds
Four things to to to the ap:
- Stock tank heater
- Bed hoops
- Insulation on the feeder hoses
- Bring in the frost sensitive plants
How to prepare your beds for winter
- Clean them out
- Layers: manure, compost, forest dirt, leaves, straw or wood chips or another mulch. (My thoughts on local wood chips)
- What to do if you interplant like I do
A Final Winter checklist
- Waters ready to be ice-free?
- Bees?
- Animal bedding sufficient?
- Goat hay needed
- Pump house filters changed
- Bring in the banana trees
- Try to overwinter a rosemary plant and the tabasco peppers
Make it a great week.
Song: Strange Child by Sauce
Advisory Board
Samantha the Savings Ninja
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