BTE summary

This year amount of BTE on the property was increased significantly, aka we've got wood chips, lots of them, and neighboring property is converting dry lot (several acres) into BTE. If I'd write an update that would be a lot of text, I was doing some blog posts.

that's autumn all done and covered kind of a picture in kitchen garden

that's summer...

Things done BTE on property covered in blog posts are:

 BTE over concrete, that's impossible, right? Nope...

BTE over concrete, for real, the plates inside that bed ... I do not know how deep, but when I tried to move dirt I found at least 3 concrete slabs like... parking lot kind one on top of another...) so that BTE grows where it not supposed to grow anything but ugly weeds

see below from the same spot. garden nick-named the circle of life.
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/08/squashes.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/09/autumn-new-gardens-updates.html

it did grow 300 pounds of squash... that was not planned :) and unknown amount of sunchokes sitting in there... last time when these were that tall in my kitchen garden I dug out 2 45 gallons tubs of those from 2 small areas... well that one is... o lot bigger, like 10 times bigger in diameter...
do I need potatoes after that...

BTE past overview with kitchen garden where it was started pictures
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/01/some-call-this-back-to-eden.html

 BTE soul conservation and restoration for arid high mountain desert (clay, high alkaline soil and water)
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/03/soils-restorations-water-management-and.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/02/why-did-grandpa-visit-forests.html

Compost. It's not a fertilizer, compost is an inoculation of the soil, think sourdough starter on large scale :)
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/04/compost.html

BTE and high mountain desert soil profile with pictures and how did that change
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/02/garden-season-retrospective-part-2-of-n.html

 BTE wild flowers xeriscape
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/07/update-on-new-bte-mixed-beds.html

 BTE kitchen garden and how to deal with extra roly-poly bugs
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/03/garden-season-retrospective-part-6-of-n.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/03/garden-season-retrospective-part-5-of-n.html
succession planting
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/02/garden-season-retrospective-part-3-of-n.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/09/autumn-harvest-in-older-garden-aka-gluts.html

 BTE orchard in arid high mountain desert
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/09/my-orchard-in-rain.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/10/fog-fog-fog.html

 BTE berry patch old patch
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/02/garden-season-retrospective-part-4-of-n.html
and new moved patch
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/09/rain-of-desert.html

 BTE keyhole from how to build for free garden with multiple updates through the season
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/03/about-keyhole-garden.html
that did grow some plants...

and update-progress
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/07/keyhole-garden-update.html

 BTE and rain harvesting and wicker bed
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/03/soils-restorations-water-management-and.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/09/rain-of-desert.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/09/end-of-september-gardens.html

 BTE and spiral garden
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/09/autumn-new-gardens-updates.html

 

 BTE sheet composting
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/09/end-of-september-gardens.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/10/october-something-old-and-something-new.html

 BTE and land slopes management using terraces
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/02/no-dig-terraces-stage-2.html

 BTE and extreme rain management (dry creeks and wicker beds, passive irrigation)
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/08/planting-rain-eclipse.html

 BTE farm road and water management (it used to be mud after spring rains and we would get in there after November in winter, and in march before melt... next time in late July-August after 2 month no rain at all, now I can receive large 5 ton truck of mulch there and earth worms are living inside my mulched road, I'm not even kidding, for real...)

http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/09/end-of-september-gardens.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/10/fog-fog-fog.html
all done

BTE and chickens (use of fermented feed, fodder for like $20 system to feed 20 birds+ etc)
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/03/chicken-feed-different-free-or.html

BTE summer maintenance
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/07/summer-maintenance.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/08/summer-maintenance-in-progress.html

BTE winterizing and season extension
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/10/it-is-fall-all-right-cleaning-picking.html
http://russianfibers.blogspot.com/2017/10/winterized.html

hope some of these things will help someone in BTE farm management.
High mountain desert, alkaline soil 8.5+, zone 5a-5b, wild weather swings, high winds (55mph afternoon in spring for month is our normal) , last frost May 28, not unheard of in June, first frost September 15 or even earlier, humidity 10%, we go several month without rain then flood rains, so I do collect and conserve water, we also do have some irrigation water rights.