Richard Gorny

I have never cut any tree in my homestead, yet my firewood shack is always full. I use only what beavers have cut on my land. And they cut only green trees.
I cut it, split it, and let it sit at least 2 years.
I have two willow baskets for firewood. From a shed I bring a basket full of 30 cm (12 inch) splitted logs (that's the size of my firebox) and I place it on a masonry bench by the wood stove. While this basket is drying even more on a bench, I use logs from another basket, standing there already for a few days. The top of the bench under baskets is roughly 35-45 degrees Celsius (100-110 F roughly) for many hours after I burn the wood in a stove.
Also, I have a simple, cheap humidity meter - you pinch a log with a meter and it returns information about water percentage the wood contains. I never use anything than has more than 20%, preferably below 15%. A freshly cut by beavers alder has over 50%.

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For a couple of years I have been experimenting with growing vegetables in various containers in city settings, on balconies and terraces. I was using mostly grow bags, and some traditional pots. Recently I have tried to use five gallon buckets with very good results. What I have also noticed is that more and more seed shops start to offer specific varieties for container gardening. Initially it's been tomatoes and peppers, and herbs, now we have cucumbers, zucchinis, short root carrots, you name it.
I would like to ask about varieties that you have grown in containers, that performed extremely well and were giving high yield.
For me, I can recommend:

-  basil Emerald Tower (small grow bags)
- Hundreds and Thousands tomato (hanging baskets, 5 gal. buckets)
- Dancing Green Fingers tomato (hanging baskets, 5 gal. buckets)
- Tiny Tim tomato (small grow bags and pots)
- Fish hot pepper (small grow bags and pots)
- Menavka sweet pepper  (small grow bags and pots)
- Little Marvel peas  (small grow bags and pots)
- Bush Baby zucchini (5 gal bucket)
- Bush Champion cucumber (grow bag)
- Chantenay short rooted carrots (5 gal bucket)

Can you share your experience below?

Just an idea ;)

I have voted for the first one.
I am not sure if the font used fits the topic.
I would go with Rustic Serif type of font (Caslon, Garamond, or a slightly distressed serifs such as Recoleta or Alegreya).
Or perhaps, for fun and pun, Bakery Script font?

I like this page very much.

Being me, I have to say a word about font consistency.
I know that ToC is a screenshot from the book and that including it as it is was easy and natural choice.
But, its look does not fit to the design as a whole.
I would either:
- rewrite it using appropriate font,
or
- put a miniature image which opens full size in a new window when clicked,
or
- put it at very end.

Or maybe convert to green and see how it fits?

For me, non-US resident, it just sends me to https://permies.gumroad.com/l/garden-master-bundle. Unable to test it fully then.

If I had to choose one plant that produces spice, that would definitely be hot pepper.
Just one plant can produce enough of heat for a family, for a year.
Turned into powder, into hot sauce or just added to a dish, it makesthe most boring food interesting ;)
Good sea salt infused with hot chili sauce is great on the road and might ignite some interesting conversations if you always carry it in a small ziploc bag and use in public ;)

I like everything on this page except fonts.

Across the page, they look inconsistent to me. Amatic SC is quite extravagant, does not look well combined with traditional fonts, like Times New Roman.  

I would not write in all caps such a long parts of the text as they are at the beginning, caps are rather for emphasizing main points, as it is done properly later.

Nancy Reading wrote:

Richard Gorny wrote:Raised bed filled mostly with compost, built on sandy soil.

May be a bit dry perhaps? What is your summer temperature and rainfall like? It seems to like it with me, and my summer is very cool and fairly damp.

There is potential to improve the yield through selection, if you get seed set. The biggest effort is in digging it up - that is the downside of root crops!

Your rainfall is three times biggger than mine, and recently we have extremely hot and dry summers on top of that.
Advantage of raised bed is that digging root crops is very easy.