Posted on 10/23/2009 10:55:17 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
I added some photos to my home page too.
Will you adopt me? I have a book I’ve been wanting to write and your deck and view are obviously the place to do it...sigh
How do you keep the weeds out of your compost pile? THe last time I tried to start one I had a cage and my husband pllaced it out behind some shrubbery in the back pasture. Within 3 weeks the cage was totally encased in bind weed. Impossible to turn, or to tend, or to even dismantle. It’s still there, LOL.
You can see the reason for his skepticism.
For some reason I am having problems with my photos today. The codes from Flickr are not translating into URLS. I’ve posted most of these pix elsewhere successfully, but not today. :(
No not catch fire but they will get the pile to hot. You may see the grass in the pile turn almost to ash but not combust. Green grass needs a lot of browns mixed in (leaves or as I do dried and brown grass).
“Nevertheless, it is a laborious task that no liberal could ever accomplish—too much work.”
“ROFLMSS!!!!!!”
Funny, I mentioned to my daughter that I hoped we didn’t have to sit up at night to protect our veges, from all those folks who presently can’t get involved with us low lifes who actually work with our hands in the dirt,
if terroists really go after our country one day.
Well, there is one of my boxes for my veggies next year. This one will be for my verticles and my long carrots. The boxes are built on a double thick layer of cardboard (I had a lot of flat boxes that we could not use -- too large for anything). They will be filled with my planting mix and seedlings, or seeds, planted directly there.
That orange stuff also has cardboard under it. It is a plastic, fake "mulch" weed barrier. I'm hoping to keep the weeds out with this. In any case it is really nice to walk or kneel on -- sort of cushy. I may put real bark on top of it and it won't wash off.
I meant that the cardboard boxes were too large to pack, or store anything in. They were left at our business by a former customer (now out of business) who used to ship machines in them that were lifted by a fork lift.
That bed is about 8 in. low and irises need to be on top of the ground.
Nice tators.
I am definitely going to try taters next year.
I did a modified square foot garden this year. Instead of Mel’s Mix, I just used store bought potting soil. I tried corn, beans, onions, carrots, cantaloupe, sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Nothing was great, but the beans did fairly well. 4 of the 6 sweet potato slips I planted died (was a little slow in transplanting them), but those 2 did fairly well.
I wish you the best of luck, but don’t be discouraged by lower than expected results. Its a learning process. This year was little better than last year, and I hope next year will be a little better than this year.
I have never had a problem with weeds in the compost pile. So I don’t have an answer for you.
I picked up a bag of russet seed potatoes from Wal Mart and proceeded to let them sit in my garage for a few weeks. They were looking quite rotten when I cut and planted 4 in late June (really late for SC). I harvested almost exclusively little “new potatoes”, some of which you can see in my pic of the sweet potatoes.
I ordered the sweet potato slips a little late as well (early June) and waited two days to plant them, so only 2 survived. But I planned to let them grow until the first frost, which unfortunately hit earlier this week.
I will definitely plan much better next year and get both types planted as soon after the first frost as possible.
And until I can get my garden area set up the way I really want it, I’m giving up on corn, onions, carrots, etc. I’ll stick with tomatoes, potatoes and maybe some peppers.
I checked out your page. I can’t see how you can keep anything in your garden from being eaten up.
I was trying to figure out what you meant by “3 timbers high”, etc. Now it makes sense. That’s a nice box!
And out the back towards what once were stables:
And out the back-back. That overgrown compost bin is hiding in that shrubbery about in the middle of the red barn -- never to be recovered.
And down the driveway...
And finally, the rose garden with my hubby having a little discussion with Max (who eats my tomatoes)
Just over my husband’s head, through the gate and inside the pasture is where I’ve placed my SFG. Wish me luck.
My wife sends her thanks and hugs for recommending Hidden Lake Gardens last week on this thread.
We visited the gardens on Tues. and they were far above expectations. Very beautiful place, lots of autumn colors, many varieties of trees and foliage that we do not have down south.
And we picked apples at a u-pik orchard on the same hwy after leaving, making friends with the couple that run the place, shipping local pecans to them after returning home.
Michigan is a very beautiful place in the fall. Thanks again.
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