06/30/2025
Now that all our gardens are thriving and beginning to produce, I'd like to introduce you to an excellent grower and very dear friends of mine Randy and Nadia Harness at Harness Homestead. Randy and Nadia live in Unicoi Tennessee surrounded by the Cherokee National Forest at the base of Buffalo Mountain near Johnson City, that's near the North Carolina boarder. Both Randy and Nadia work full time jobs, which makes this even more amazing.
Randy is more than just a gardener; he is an excellent grower and uses all natural products to manage his garden area. Now mind you, his area consists of over 100 California Wonder pepper plants not including other varieties, 300 Celebrity tomato plants, which he prefers for slicing and eating, plus other varieties, corn, onions, cucumbers, squash, watermelon, pumpkins and more!
Though we do have a bit of a climate difference in the heart of summer, the rest of the season is surprisingly similar to our season here in Kansas, also some of his techniques are universal working no matter where you live, so I thought you may like to follow along, gather some gardening tips and see what persistence and diligence can yield with a garden. I'll share some of their post periodically.
Please go to Harness Homestead, like and follow their page.