Sustainable Gardening with Nature by Sue Robishaw

Notes from a Northwoods Garden with Sue Robishaw

Many Tracks in the Garden

Gardening in Harmony with Nature

Thoughts, information, experiences, odds and ends from more than thirty years of growing.

        Welcome to the ManyTracks gardening pages. My garden world is ever-changing and is as much fun now as it was when I started over thirty years ago. I am always a new gardener whenever I step into that world. A long-time organic gardener, I enjoy a cooperative and preferably simple approach to growing food. However, every year in the garden is a new adventure.
        The seeds I plant are open-pollinated and are varieties that have earned their spot in the line-up over the many years in my garden, and in most cases in generations of gardens before me. Those I don't grow myself I buy from independent seed companies specializing in open-pollinated varieties.
         I've been fortunate to be able to share gardening adventures with many people over the years through articles (mainly for "Countryside" magazine) and talks and presentations. I continue that sharing here by posting many of those articles as well as additional tidbits, thoughts, and experiences from my day to day gardening world.
        Should you want to use a small portion of these articles to quote in a publication of your own, just give proper credit and let me know where it is used. Anything more than that, contact me. Thanks.

Those of you who have been here before will no doubt notice a change in format for the Gardening pages. I'm hopeful that this will make it easier for my visitors to find what they want. This re-arrangement, re-writing, and updating will take some time but I'll post the new pages as I get them done. So check back later if your topic of interest isn't listed. Gardening Cheers! Sue

Articles and Notes

Independent Seed Companies	Sifters	Seed Saving
Compost Pile	Green Manure	Interesting Crops and Varieties
Using a Scythe	Eating Out of Your Garden	Potting Soil
Cold Frames	Books	Green Manure
Horseradish	Strawberries	Grapes
Tomato	Cole Crops	Beans
Corn	Cucumbers

Check out the Homesteading page for more articles on various homestead topics.

"I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to Covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the Culture of them and study of Nature."
Cowley - preface to Evelyn's "Kalendarium Hortense" 1664.

Find more helpful gardening information in:

"Homesteading Adventures -A Guide for Doers and Dreamers"

and "Frost Dancing - Tips from a Northern Gardener"

updated 01/29/2009