Posted on 04/20/2012 10:06:22 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
Good morning to my FRiends, fellow gardeners, future gardeners, and lurkers! It is beautiful and sunny today here in NELA. We received 2-1/2 inches of rain earlier in the week and it is still very wet in the yard and garden.
I've been keeping busy with my bee yard ... I got called about a swarm day-before-yesterday, about 25 miles south of my house. I still had all of my bee catching equipment in my truck from doing a hive cutout last weekend, so off I went. Below is a photo of the swarm when I got there, and the latest photo of my bee yard with the newest hives on the right-hand side.
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I think that phrase is now my middle name :-(
Totally Rad. Uber cool.
I gardened last year at the mini-farm.. mostly green beans and kale
Would have been more but the rabbits ate all my kole crops.
The remaining kale over wintered like a champ...had fresh greens all winter.
My main crop was rocks.
I sifted about a ton of earth last year and barely made a dent.
Yesterday, I had a single axle dump truck full of compost and top soil delivered.
Spent hours leveling it by hand..
It’s a wonder that I can move at all today.
I plan on expanding the garden as I have compostable product to make my own this year.
Totally Rad. Uber cool.
I gardened last year at the mini-farm.. mostly green beans and kale
Would have been more but the rabbits ate all my kole crops.
The remaining kale over wintered like a champ...had fresh greens all winter.
My main crop was rocks.
I sifted about a ton of earth last year and barely made a dent.
Yesterday, I had a single axle dump truck full of compost and top soil delivered.
Spent hours leveling it by hand..
It’s a wonder that I can move at all today.
I plan on expanding the garden as I have compostable product to make my own this year.
Prayers lifted
I had a discussion a few weeks ago with a former horticulture teacher from a local college that advised if planting in clay to dig out your garden area six or eight in deep, then take an auger and drill as deep as possible and as many as possible holes and fill the holes with small rock for good drainage. Then fill the bed in with good soil. Idea is to get drainage, rather than planting a garden is a clay bowl. I am just a novice myself, repeating what I have been told. YMMV
Now that is what is known as a SCORE!!!!!!!
So sorry to hear about you neck issues and the problems with the insurance company, but it seems that you have a peach for a chiropractor!
Barter, what a terrific solution.
(And anyone else with raised bed experience.)
I’ve never really done this before and need help. We just redid the “bed” around our boat buoy and didn’t sink the timbers, instead going for a raised type.
Here is my question - It is 7’ x 7’ and 1 foot deep — how much soil do I need to fill it????
(And anyone else with raised bed experience.)
I’ve never really done this before and need help. We just redid the “bed” around our boat buoy and didn’t sink the timbers, instead going for a raised type.
Here is my question - It is 7’ x 7’ and 1 foot deep — how much soil do I need to fill it????
49 Cubit feet.
The obvious, to me, is that you need to mix that manure with compost or straw and some soil so that it will age/cure properly. Just my thought.
OK - that was easier than I thought - now to figure out how taht is going to relate to bobcat scoop fuls - but as I told the gal at the supply place - I’ll discuss it with her in the morning because she was speaking greek to me!
Thank you - I definitely have to talk to them in person. I just looked at the bags I used for behind the house and they are 1 cubic ft each. At $2.50 a bag, that will become cost prohibitive, hopefully their bulk is cheaper!
It is 7’ x 7’ and 1 foot deep
49 cubic feet or
1.8 cubic yards
Prayers up for Mark.
It is quite possible that they know how many cubit feet their loader scoop holds. I would if it was my business.
Thank you both. I will be heading over there in the morning.
Allowing for settling, and I know this from filling a raised bed last year, I would get 2 cubic yards.
one of local farmer friends told us where he piles excess dirt on the farm and we are welcome to it at any time. Depending on the price of all this topsoil I may go half and half.
I’m still planning to go and talk to them at the supply place in the morning (after I finish setting up the church hall for Sunday’s pancake supper) and talk with them. but because my husband has service calls tomorrow - 2 hours and 2 states away - it can’t be done tomorrow. So because of the storms that are coming in Sat night and hanging around all day Sun - I have to put it off another couple of days........grrrrrrrrrrr
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