Current Garden Work
A plain overview of the garden, fruit, flower, orchard, herb, and soil-building work taking shape at Shaggy Ink Farms for the 2027 season.
Shaggy Ink Farms
The garden pages keep the 2027 season build honest: planning, testing, preparing, and learning before claiming a finished farm system.
Current Status
These notes are here to show what is being built and what is still being learned. They are not product pages.
The farm is not pretending to be a finished production farm. The garden side is a mix of family food growing, strawberry field preparation, cut flower trials, orchard establishment, herbs, ground covers, and practical soil-building systems.
The near-term goal is to learn what works here before making bigger claims: how water moves, where weeds push hardest, what survives the heat, and which crops deserve more space.
Grow It Yourself
These links keep the Garden pages focused on what Shaggy Ink Farms is building while sending how-to guidance to the Learn section.
Growing Guide
How to use a fertilizer injector (Mazzei, Dosatron) with drip irrigation to fertligate vegetables and fruit trees efficiently in hot, dry climates.
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Growing Guide
Which vegetables grow in partial shade — and how much shade is too much. Practical varieties and placement for gardens with less than full sun.
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Growing Guide
A printable seed starting chart with start dates, germination temperatures, days to transplant, and transplant dates for 30+ crops in Zones 7–10.
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Field Notes
Dated notes from the farm that connect this Garden page to the real build as it happens.
Plan Your Version
Garden Paths
Garden
Strawberry field preparation at Shaggy Ink Farms, including irrigation planning, soil preparation, and the honest goal of working toward the 2027 season.
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Garden
The cut flower project at Shaggy Ink Farms is focused on sunflowers, trial varieties, pollinator value, local production lessons, and building honestly toward 2027 sales.
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Garden
The Shaggy Ink Farms family garden is for household food, local growing notes, and honest documentation of what works and fails in Anderson, California.
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Planning a garden at home? The Garden Planner and local growing guides are the practical tools side of this work.