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Posted on 05/21/2010 5:00:30 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
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Seemed to me as though the winter would get me off to a better start with all of the leaves from the big oaks. At this particular time I have only a couple of bales of old hay and some trash from weeding the garden, but I could add the cuttings from trimming the hedges and kitchen waste.
Really would appreciate your input to get me started, especially with regard to location/sun exposure. What I have in my head is building a three-sided 'box' with cattle panels for support, and then lining the panels with chicken wire to keep in the contents. The compost would be piled against the back 'wall' and enable easy access to turn and add more materials. Does that sound like it would work?
Oh ... I just remembered that a lady down the road has several piles of oak leaves that never got picked-up/burned. I could also use those to get started, if this is the right time of year. Thanks again!
Tilapia are farmed in manmade ponds all over the Third World and sold here. The fish have to eat something. I think what they're eating is the contents of last night's Third World chamber pots. We only inspect about 4% of the foreign food that we import.
I read up on tilapia farming a while ago, thinking I could put a small fishpond in the greenhouse (that I still haven't assembled), but you need all kinds of permits to raise them here because they are non-native.
That's what I meant when I called it a Pet Rock.
I hear, but have never done it myself, that if you plant them in strawberry boxes it’s much easier. It makes sense. I just never have strawberry boxes when it’s time to plant, or I might try it.
The answer to the mint question is: “Move.”.
Thanks.
Maybe tubebender will will re-post the photos of his compost piles. Your approach sounds just like what tube has been doing forever.
I switched to Photobucket after I recommended Flicker to you because I could post larger pictures from PB. The only problem with PB are the incessent ads you are subjected to with a free membership. Apparently, you can pay a fee and the ads will go away.
But, Flicker is run on a monthly basis. You get a whole new allotment of storage space on the first of every month month. Just wait a week and you can upuload more photos. They never delete your stuff, you just can’t see it all at one time after you hit 200. It’s all still there. You can delete some of your less wonderful photos (I know you don’t have any of those.) and your older ones come back into your queue. (sp?)
I’m thinking of organizing my photos so that I have certain ones on Flickr and certain ones on Photobucket. For instance, you could have your regular garden and family shots on Flicker and your church shots on Photobucket.
I was in a garden center this morning and kept running into a young father with 2 kidlets — a little boy about 6-7 and a younger girl who didn’t stay still long enough for me to assess her age.
Daddy was pushing a cart and examining veggies. He picked out a couple of tomatoes, and I said that they looked really healthy — a lot better than the ones I grew from seed in the basement. He nodded and said, “Mine too.”
Little boy piped up and said, “Ours got frosted” and gestured with his hands that they fell over dead. He was so darned cute that I almost offered to take him home. He was interested in everything his dad was doing. Girl, not so much.
At one point Dad said, “There are some cucumbers” and little boy (who was much closer to the ground and, thus, to the label) bent over and studied the label. “These are zoo-keeny”, Dad. I had a hard time keeping a straight face.
If anyone has a website or book recommendation that would guide me through the first few steps, I'd appreciate the info. I feel like a overwhelmed lost puppy with regard to this project, but I'm probably making it harder than it should be (which is my standard MO).
I'm headed back out to the garden for as long as I can stand the heat. Wow, it is muggy today! Got 24 little tomato plants set out this morning, and I need to do a little work on tying the more mature tomatoes to their stakes. Gee, I love garden velcro rolls!
LOL!
She did.
You can start a compost pile anytime of the year but you will need to add moisture as you layer it unless you live where it rains every month? Just remember to put it together in layers of green stuff and dry stuff and a shovel full of good garden soil every so often for the organisms to speed the process and don’t let it dry out. If you have access to large amounts of ‘things” you can build a free standing pile and have your hubby burn it with a front end loader two or three times adding moisture as you reconstruct it...
Whooo-Hoo. I meant to say, now I have happy feet, and I’m headed outside again.
That still violates everything I know about raising fish.
I’m at work and don’t have my Flickr password and I may have deleted that photo thinking it would free up space... and it didn’t...
Well... I called home and the nice lady who answered gave me my password but alas the photos I was looking for were the ones I had deleted...
Tube, if you delete photos from your photo hoasting service you also remove them from any thread you posted them to here at FR.
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