Scot Miller

For using the actual trampoline - couldn't you use it to cover and kill of grass for a new garden bed - similar to using recycled billboard vinyl?

Unbelievable good outcome on this.
I had a similar problem, although not with a mower. I was scything and hit a T-post laying flat in the grass that I forgot was dumped there from a previous project. Took a chunk out. Was able to peen it back flat but still a little chunk out of it.

Ep. 127 – How to Design Your Garden Around Your Diet – with Homestead Padre.


After some health issues, Homestead Padre and his wife are adopting the Mediterranean Diet. These health challenges require Homestead Padre to rethink and redesign his garden to adapt to those changes.

Unlike American Italian Food, the Mediterranean Diet is heavy emphasis on vegetables, seafood, lean meats, fat from olive oil, and whole wheat pasta (if they have pasta).

Padre is realigning his garden around those foods. Changing what he will grow in his garden – based on new dietary needs. Come and listen to how he plans out his journey.

Listen on your fave podcast app and Thriving the Future - Ep. 127 – How to Design Your Garden Around Your Diet – with Homestead Padre.

I use comfrey, candy cane mint, and buckwheat. Covered with a light layer of woodchips to cover the bare spots. I still have some grass come up but the mint does most of it.

I stand on the broadfork until it is in the ground. I lean back and pull and wiggle it side to side until it loosens up a piece of sod. Since I have a 14" broadfork it also loosens up some of the clay. Then I pull it up and turn it over so it clay-side up, grass side down, either with the broadfork, a shovel, or by hand.

Creating a new garden bed - Do YOU use cardboard or not?
I use Milpa to create new garden beds.
You can have this with very little effort.


I turn the sod over with a broadfork, add some compost, sow some Milpa seed, and cover with a light layer of woodchips.


The base of Milpa is Three sisters - corn, beans, squash. Plus cowpeas, buckwheat, pollinators.


Listen on your fave podcast app and:
TThriving the Future Podcast Ep. 124 – Creating a New Garden Bed with Milpa

I have seen some of this if planted close to cedar trees as well. Cedar rust galls affect not only my apples but other trees as well.

I blanche nettles and then form them into balls, squeeze out the water, and flash freeze them. Then I take them out and sautee them.

I have a friend who collects nettles and freezes them in the Spring and that is his main green for the entire year.

Joseph Lofthouse is the author of Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination.

Landrace gardening is adapting crops to your land and climate, and then saving seeds, while also selecting for the best flavor, color, and pest and disease resistance.

Joseph lives in the high mountains of Utah – a mountain valley with cold air coming down out of the mountains, yet sun almost every day in the Summer, and low humidity. He grows for the farmers market and for himself and friends, and with a shorter season and these conditions he had difficulty growing warm weather crops.


🎧- On your fave podcast app and http://Thrivingthefuture.com/landrace-gardening

I planted corners of my gardens with perennials - narrow leaf plantain from seed, walking onion, hazelnuts, goji berry, bloody dock, horseradish, Solomon's Seal. In the blank spots in between I sowed annual greens like Black Seeded Simpson lettuce and mustard greens.


And all my walking paths have native broad leaf plantain growing. I have tried to dig it up and transplant the road leaf plantain, with mixed success.

Bloody dock.