We're having a mild winter!
Posted on 01/27/2012 10:40:54 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
First sunny day here in Benderville in a couple of weeks and here I sit. The native soil here is what is left after the brick factories closed. It is a heavy clay due the Redwood trees and the annual rains. Most of the visitors to our garden want to know where we purchased the soil in the beds and I have to do a mini course on building soil structure. There are river bottoms here where the soil is several feet deep and most of it is in our dairy belt...
Wisconsin = Antigo
Well, what do you know? I looked at the very interesting soil page for my state, but (for the life of me) I don’t understand how a soil that is distributed over less than a quarter of the state can be designated the “state soil”. What do the rest of us have? Just plain dirt? Sounds political to me, but everything is political in Wisconsin these days. LOL
I have about 10 different kinds of soil just on my property, I think.
Wisconsin = Antigo
Well, what do you know? I looked at the very interesting soil page for my state, but (for the life of me) I don’t understand how a soil that is distributed over less than a quarter of the state can be designated the “state soil”. What do the rest of us have? Just plain dirt? Sounds political to me, but everything is political in Wisconsin these days. LOL
I have about 10 different kinds of soil just on my property, I think.
TGIF!
Warm weather let me finish our raised beds for our new garden - 13 in all, and a compost bin. Will fill them up next week - 50% trucked in dirt and 50% compost from our local community yard waste recycling program - 60,000 lbs/year from 36 acres - who knew!
Special thanks to FReeper DR for the heirloom seeds! (Arrived in the mail @ an hour ago.)
How about a list of YouTube gardening channels along with the gardening sites?
Garden on!
Good afternoon. 78deg here in the piney woods region of Texas. We are supposed to have sunny days ahead for a week or so. We had 4in of rain again two days ago, so we are in a drying out mode.
Sorry to hear of your loss.
Oh no! That is terrible. We used to heat our peacock shed with a kerosene heater OUTSIDE the pens. We “insulated” with plastic sheeting over the windows and outside the doors. We never had a problem. Our shed was an old stable that my husband replaced the doors with chicken wire doors and covered the areas above the solid sides with more chicken wire. It was servicable for the birds, though not pretty. We already had normal electric service out there. No lanterns needed.
I am so sorry about your poultry.
Thanks for the link JADB. Great info on soils. Love the weekly links, it will sure help to find info again.
We are still in relatively warm weather for Missouri, but still cold enough to be a deterrent to going outdoors for any length of time. I have a huge stack of seed catalogs, so am spending looking through them, and planning the garden.
I intend to start some seeds soon for container plants. That way I can get some things going for earlier harvest. That way if we have a cold snap I can bring them in.
Have a great week everyone. God Bless.
All my old charts have us in zone 5, but these new charts have us in zone 6. Does that mean that our temperature has gotten warmer? Or have they just changed the system, so that we have a new number for the same temperature?
Diana works for Jung Seeds, I believe. That is a very good source.
Sorry about you poltry loss.
Well, there are state birds even though there are probably dozens of birds in each state. It may be political ... the state soil of Louisiana starts about an hour west of me, but the state by far has more Mississippi River delta black clay-ish soil than the red hills of Ruston. I still thought it was interesting.
For those of us in the northern tier of states, glaciation has rendered multi;ple soil types. I have 5 types on my 40 acres in Upstate NY. Glaciers dropped a multitude of rocks in their retreat, leaving us to clean up the mess. One field is almost all sand, while the next one over is full of stones and rocks. You can likely get a soil map of your county at the extension office free - at least, mine was. It will tell you about the nature of each soil type and what it’s good for - or not. the extension office is a fountain of info. It’s a good source. Also good is your land grant college. sd
We're having a mild winter!
WOW - just wow!
This weather is absolutely weird. It rained to beat the band all morning (my driveway is still flooded) and at one point the outside temperature was higher than the inside temperature. It’s January - this is coastal Virginia, not the deep south or south west. It should not be 68 degrees here.
Oh Red, I’m so sorry. That’s awful. I truly hope arson can be ruled out.
My mayhaw trees are getting ready to bloom. I saw the first hints of white in the buds this morning.
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