Kris Karkoski
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Gardening Again
It’s been awhile since our last update, when we dramatically scaled down our growing with intentions of scaling back up soon after. But we found ourselves enjoying what the smaller scale allowed, including growing our small dairy heard, beekeeping, and… Continue reading
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Scaling Down to Scale Up
This year we decided to drastically scale down our garden after 4 years of growing between a quarter and half an acre. In the end there was little debate that it was necessary. Years of pandemic disruptions have left us… Continue reading
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New Tomatoes for 2023
Last updated Nov. 23, 2022 Winter is settling in around here, which means it’s time to get cozy and browse your favorite garden catalog. It also means that new plants are being introduced for the 2023 growing season. We’ll keep… Continue reading
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Best Seed Starting Trays
At Everfield Farm we avoid single use plastics whenever we can, choosing durable plastics that last us years when a non-plastic alternative isn’t feasible. We’ve tried a number of 1020 seed trays over the years, including many that claimed to… Continue reading
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Drill auger bit review
We recently purchased a drill auger bit to speed up planting and can’t recommend it enough. Here’s the one we purchased, which included bonus transplanting tools that have also worked well for potting up plants: There’s a lot of similar… Continue reading
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What topics do you want to learn about?
The pandemic has slowed us down, but we’re working behind the scenes on lots of new content for Garden.blog to prepare you for growing in 2021. To help with that work we’d love to hear from you on the topics… Continue reading
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New Garden.blog coming soon
With all of the renewed attention on gardening in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll be relaunching Garden.blog in the coming weeks with new content on getting started with growing your own food and highlighting the best garden-related content… Continue reading
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Propagating herbs
While we wait to buy land for our home and farm why not experiment with propagating some more herbs. African blue basil, mint, and oregano cut and in mason jars, now just to wait for the roots. Continue reading
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Basil sprouting
While we look for land for our new home and farm we’re growing some plants inside in a Click and Grow. Basil was the first to sprout in 2 days, with mint and oregano still to come. Continue reading
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Wild peas
These wild peas were everywhere on our walks in Kiawah. Continue reading
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Pollinator garden
We recently replaced about half of our front grass with a pollinator garden, including black eyed Susans, cone flowers, lantana, blueberries, and butterfly bushes. Continue reading
