Pretty raised beds. Care to comment on what they are? Since they are yours? Nothing I have is that pretty. ;)
/johnny
Posted on 04/25/2014 12:24:10 PM PDT by greeneyes
Three years ago, we planted some paw paws of a variety harvested in Tennessee and they've adapted to this ditch.
When we first bought this property in ‘97, we started planting pecans, walnuts, filberts and hickory nut trees from a nursery in NE Missouri. There are wild pecans and one or two other native nut trees here. The newcomers have adapted, except for one pecan tree that, because of a visit from a deer, is now a pecan bush.
Basically yes. Should work eventually. I am a lazy composter. I have one of those that looks like a tall trash can with a lid.
It has a door on one side that slides up for access at the bottom to the finished compost. Every three inches there is an air space all along the barrel from top to bottom, you just don’t see it because of overlap.
I throw in kitchen waste, and paper, leaves, and/or straw. Never stir it at all. It breaks down slower, but eventually gets there.
Johnny might be able to give you some ideas on how to speed it up or explain a bit about what can slow it down.
JFR - can you help twyn1?
Okay here’s a link that might help:
http://www.ehow.com/decision_6860908_far-one-plant-fruit-trees_.html
We always joke in Iowa that Missouri is the land where you can marry your sister, shoot machine guns off your back porch, and walk buck naked thru town and not get arrested.
Which isn’t true, but Missouri is alot more free than most states. Best part is they have an equipment tax instead of a property tax, which means you can at least live poor and not worry about losing everything. I know it N. Central MO it’s really laid back, very tempting to retire there.
Spring garden is in, other projects now till the summer stuff gets planted in a few weeks. Late spring and cold but not nearly as wet as last year, so far it’s been pretty decent. Stuff is coming up pretty good.
That’s so fantastic. I feel blessed because we have so much wild stuff on our 1 acre.
We have 3 black walnuts, and a buttermut. A bunch of hickory nuts. They are hard to crack and hard to get the nut meats out, but taste like pecans. I read that you can soak the hulls to hickory smoke stuff.
We have a persimmon tree, a bunch of wild blackberry and dewberry, to name the main ones. We get a lot of nuts and fruits from these, and had never done much with them. Passion flowers also, which I just read can make a delicious relaxing tea.
So, I'm thinking that he has this whole business dead right, and I'll keep the rosemary cuttings very moist until either there's new growth on the top leaves or they croak. It's like Damon Runyan used to say: "My son, the race is not always to the swift, or the battle to the strong...but that's the way to bet."
Good gardening, m'FRiend!
I don't hold with the barrel composters. One of the microbes that break down cellulose is fungi. They rely on long threads that they put out through the compost. Every time you spin the thing, those threads break. Not helping the fungi.
I quit tilling because of that.
My suggestion is to inoculate the mass with bacteria and microbes that can break down the stuff. You can get that from a good compost pile, like from under those leaves in the corner that you didn't get raked up for the last decade, or you can buy compost microbes.
Then, feed them. I use 2 oz of liquid seaweed, 2 oz of fish emulsion, and 2 oz of un-sulfered molasses per gallon of warm water.
If the bacteria are happy, composting goes quickly. If not, not. That's the bottom line.
And don't break the fungi mycelia wantonly.
/johnny
The city adds chemicals to kill microbes.
Microbes are what break down plant matter into compost.
Bad idea....
/johnny
We have similar that grows in the woods. I hate anise myself, but know the pioneers used it as a substitute when they couldn’t get the real thing.
Always wanted a paw paw. They are excellent.
Unfortunately, we do have real estate property tax, levied by county. The state will reimburse low income seniors so that they don’t have to worry about losing their home due to property taxes.
We also have what’s termed personal property tax. That taxes your cars, tractors, etc. essentially equipment.
Our county is pretty free, like I said, because we don’t have a lot of rules and regs. We have a county commission that is a bunch of guys that just kinda think property belongs to you, so why should they tell you what’s what on your property?
Our subdivision has around three rules, but no one has ever raised a question about any one that might have broken one either. Live and let live for the past 46 years. No homeowner’s association ever formed. It’s been great so far.
Once we all got together and decided to chip in and asphalt the gravel road. Then we got the county to take over maintenance.
Why thank you!
My Garden is a 8’ x 10’ second floor balcony in FL.
Garden is doing great. Beans are growing like crazy. Some tomatoes already on the vines. Squash are about three inches long with many flowers on the plants. Herb area is going gangbusters.
Geez r_d, I hope you’ll be OK. Stop hot-rodding! ;)
Before long, you’ll have some real good food!
What is the temperature of the mass in your composter?
Thai basil also has this flavor.
Pretty raised beds. Care to comment on what they are? Since they are yours? Nothing I have is that pretty. ;)
/johnny
Thanks for posting my pictures.
The pix are of our raised beds with reinforced corners.
We’re still using the frost covers through next week when the hoops come out and we cover the square framework over the beds with bird netting.
All pipes are 1 “ and 2 “ PVC.
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