Hillsview Farm & Studios

01/08/2025

Hillsview Farm & Studios closed the business in 2022.

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30/08/2021

I was a little bored with green & red sweet peppers. Grew purple sweets this year. They out-performed the green/reds. Bigger, ripened sooner. Taste great! Fun times on the farm.

15/08/2021

I always deep mulch with straw. This year first without animal manure. Trying Jessica Walliser's recos re green manure from clover. Planted white clover between rows & crimson clover near tomatoes & basil. -- Learning this far: white clover is super-sizing squash plants. Will wait until next year when I rotate plants to see if white clover is adequate replacement for animal manure overall. Crimson clover was not planted thick enough. Since I had to buy 50lb bags, I have a lifetime supply! Onward!

26/07/2021

Harvested 288 bulbs. A good year. Will save 50 to plant this fall. The rest are ours! Tastes so much better than grocery store garlic, and much cheaper, too!

31/05/2021

Many tomatoes are leggy this year because we are planting so late. This is actually a good thing, if we have a dry season. Either bury them deep or lay them sideways, covering those little hairs along the stem. The hairs will absorb more water for the plant. -- I prefer to bury deep, because the soil is more moist down there.

24/05/2021

Yup! Thought this was coming. Possibly worse Wed/Thu/Fri. Stay covered!

19/05/2021

Tall tomatoes in the garden, each with a cozy coat, which is filled with water. The coats warm up during the day and protect the tomatoes from night time cold temps. The coats are a pain to fill, but some years oh so necessary. -- Waiting until after the full moon next week to plant most of the garden.

25/04/2021

Pruned & tied up the summer raspberries. The branches always look thin now. They will fill every inch of the row with leaves, new branches and berries by July. Raspberries love this area!

Yes, those are grapes growing between the raspberry rows. They, too, fill in prolifically. If we had it to do over, we wouldn't plant them so close together. Too crowded, even though it doesn't look like it now.

19/03/2021

Grow these by the bunch!

If you have thrown in the towel when it comes to excluding deer from your property, plant these 10 flowers that are rarely or seldom touched.

15/03/2021

Here's some great advice about starting seeds indoors, written by a gardener I admire from Minnesota. Similar climate to ours...

I have had many decades of ease with seed starting. It wasn’t until recently that I have bumped into some glaring and show-stopping issues. This article humbly highlights the mistakes I’ve made so that you can learn and be on the lookout for these same mistakes. I am firm believer that first-han...