Wendy Rogers
20241 Brockman Mill Road
Fiddletown, CA  95629
209-296-2345
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The Garden
#1  After I have removed the soiled straw from the barn, (and before I lay down the
clean straw) I do a "deep clean"--I remove the layer of goatberries laying on top of
the barn floor.  Even though my goat herd is small, you would be amazed how
much can accumulate!  I shovel the rich, aromatic goatberries into my 'super duper
manure wagon with the easy dump feature' and haul it up into the garden where I
dump it into the goatberry compost pile.  The worms love this!!!  The compost that
this generates is the BEST I have ever used!

#2  When spring arrives, I rake up the over wintered straw from the bare garden and
pile it into the compost area, where it continues to create a rich compost full of
nutrients and microorganisms.

#3 Make goatberry tea!  Here's how:  Mix a shovel full of goatberries (added dirt is
acceptable) in a pail of water, and let it steep for a few minutes like real tea.  When
the "tea" is nice and brown, water your special plants with it.  My roses love their
goatberry tea!

There are very few manures that you can use directly in the garden
before aging and composting.  Goat and alpaca are the only two that I
know!
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Our little goat
barn produces a
perfect amount of
a miracle cure for
bad soil.  

GOATBERRIES!

Goatberries are a
wonderful
addition to my
garden soil,
improving texture
and tilth.  I use
them several
different ways:
White Allysum, Johnny Jump-ups and
bright blue Forget-me-nots make a lovely
spring ground cover.  Imagine my
excitement when some of these reseeded
themselves, and now I have attractive,
fragrant weeds!
Flowering Dogwood grows in a wine barrel in a shady area near
the front entrance-gorgeous fall color!
Organic Fuji apples, YUM!
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There are irises,
daylilies,
lavenders, pinks,
phlox, roses and
rosemary, along
with a 'Prairie Fire'
crabapple tree.  
Perennials are fun
to have, but don't
let anyone tell you
that they are low
maintenance
"In the garden, my
soul is sunshine."