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RE: GOING DEEPER WITH PAPA-PEPPER: The Homesteader
as a suggestion, if it is applicable where you are, my daughter was growing ferns under shade at home and selling them at the equivalent of your farmers market. She was almost making a living out of it.
Suggest you watch the Raspberries, here they run underground shoots that can reach 3 to 4 feet away, they will grow deeper than 2 feet under ground to go under a fence I tried. A big container, off the ground so you can cut the roots as they emerge would be my suggestion. If you have Boysenberries there they are good, and there is also a prickle less type for the little-peppers to pick while you aren't watching.
Excellent advice and suggestions, thanks very much!
If you get a chance, go to any old time market garden/small farmers clearing sales, any very old machinery business. Look for "Planet Junior" , originally a set of handles attached to a multi holed plate, into these holes were all the various tools you need for breaking down and cultivating a large garden,
The tools ranged from ploughs, discs, flat weeders, cultivating tips. They also produced a hand pushed seeder to plant almost any seed.
The Chinese used them here and could take a grass paddock into vegetable garden by hand and sweat.
You could try any museums in the area, the simpler tools could be made by any local blacksmith/engineering shop. I have see broomsticks used for the handles.
I do like the old simple tools that require me to put some effort into it!