Nic Trib

Thank you for your response, as for my soil I am using a cheap soil that has a lot of wood chip matter in it. I have had success in previous years with it and I usually add organic fertilizer with blood and bone meal into it to help, it’s really not too bad of a soil and doesn’t compact.

I am not surprised by that either because I have super hard water here too, which is why it was the last thing I had in mind. I do have some of those white webs but I always spray it with soapy water when I see it and it helps get rid of them for a bit. I haven’t seen aphids in my garden or ants surprisingly.

The strawberries are first years that I bought as bareroots this spring. They get a lot of sun but a bit less so than the other ones that lack the spots.
They are still producing but I’m just a bit concerned.

Hi everyone,

I am on my second year of gardening and I currently live in a apartment so I can only have pots right now (I'm working on getting some land). Everything was going well until about early June here in Appalachia and then a lot of my plants started turning a bunch of not green colors lol. I suspected fungus so I tried a copper fungicide, it seemed to work but its still there. I also suspect I have over fertilized some of the plants with the used of synthetic fertilizers and so I am switching to completely organic now. I have some pictures of all of them below and I could use some help as I have tried everything and cant seem to have any improvements. I added some pictures of my strawberries, lavender, haskhaps, and my Fig tree. I was successful with some of my other plants but not these, I suspect calcium deficiency for the one strawberry plant.

What should I do to fix some of these problems? What can I do to prevent disease in the future? Any tips?

Im not sure if this has been talked about much before, but I have an interest in homesteading in the NW. Specifically the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. Does anyone have any experience here? If so what are some things I would need to take into account when in comes to gardening or raising animals if I decide to move out there from the east coast?

Im not sure if this has been talked about much before, but I have an interest in homesteading in the NW. Specifically the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho. Does anyone have any experience here? If so what are some things I would need to take into account when in comes to gardening or raising animals if I decide to move out there from the east coast?

Interesting, what led you to choose the Great North Woods as a place to homestead?

Hello everyone, I just found this site today and it seems like a wonderful source of information for permaculture. I've been interested to learn more on the topic for a while but could not find much on the topic until now.

Currently, I am still in university and so I don't have land for a large garden. However, I do have a container garden on my porch and a small plot for other things in the ground (although the rabbits keep destroying it).

I'm looking to learn as much as possible before I begin my dream to own a homestead. I have had no experience until last year with growing some plants, but its been going well so far. I'm not sure on where I would like to start the homestead or much of the details surrounding it, but I do know I'd like about 5 acres or more and I'd like to be in the northern areas of the US.

I'm looking forward to explore the forums more, and learning more about homesteading and permaculture.