Posted on 03/15/2013 3:25:57 PM PDT by greeneyes
/johnny
She does get points for trying.
/johnny
Here in Northwest Missouri we got a big dose of ‘climate-change’, a whopping 81 degrees. I spent a couple plus hours in the garden where it was dry enough to turn the soil. I did not get all the tomato plants pulled from last fall so did some of that. I will burn them weather permitting.
5 of my rhubarb plants survived the winter and are just beginning to break the soil. A few onions that did not get pulled are showing their green and it is too soon to tell how many of the strawberry plants survived the winter, well more correctly said last year's drought. Where I mulched with straw last summer I have a nice stand of wheat that survived.
Tomorrow old man winter is to reappear and the high is not suppose to get out of the 40’s. Oh well it is Missouri.
Even if it doesn’t warm it up, a nekkid moonlight dance often give a consolation prize of rain.
Unfortunately, we need moisture now, but full moon isn’t until the 27th, and it does no good either way to moon a less than full moon.
The fresh not only has viable seeds in it, but is wet & sticky, and heavy; the stuff at the feed lot has been "composted", but is basically dried, fluffed manure, without any other ingredients. I normally use the fresh in a couple of barrels to make tea;or add some of it to the composter; either one kills the seeds in it.
To create compost, the manure in laid out in windrows and the compost machine runs through it, fluffing up the manure. The process adds air and increases the temperature to 140 to 150 degrees, Fahrenheit, killing all of the weed seeds while removing the moisture. It can be stockpiled anywhere for later use. It has no odor because drying it removes the ammonia.
“It’s a good product. We all use it on our own lawns and gardens. Compared to the price of a bagged product, this compost is a bargain and we also sell it in small quantities. A pickup or small trailer load costs $10 and larger amounts are $10 per ton. Come out during the week between 7 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.,” Dunn said, “or on Saturday until noon. Stop in at the office and place your order. We’ll load it for you as part of the cost.”
Of course, that removed ammonia is WAS very good, raw N fertilizer!
There's no "supposedly" about it. Don't let them see the bag unless you're wearing body armor. ;)
What kind of tobacco?
My grand daughter growls when students say hi to her at school. I really don’t know why the teachers get so upset. She’s not a morning person. Neither am I until I get my coffee.
It’s better than a lot of things she could do like hitting them with a kung fu panda move. I’m kinda stumped when it comes to telling her what to do.
Just saying Hi, I’m not feeling friendly, could we talk later just hasn’t been an acceptable option for her. I have also suggested that she follow my granny’s rule: If you can’t say something nice, keep your mouth shut. She could act shy, but didn’t like that either. sigh
It is indeed Missouri. I had 60’s today and we’ll be colder soon too.
I was looking for them too, a few weeks ago, and saw them at Bountiful gardens.
http://www.bountifulgardens.org/prodinfo.asp?number=GSU-7453#.UUQK8xdOOSo
Other “oil crops & related:
http://www.bountifulgardens.org/products.asp?dept=275
If you’re looking for a larger quantity, then try this:
http://www.westcoastseeds.com/productdetail/flower-seeds/Sunflowers/Peredovik/
I decided to go with Grey Striped seed instead, as our chickens & wild birds get them in their grain mixes, and eat them just as readily as the black oil seeds. Both are very nutritious, if you don’t need to feed the extra oil calories.
I have inoculant, and will probably give them a light shot of it.
These are mainly just for soil tilth improvement, to be tilled in, in a bottom area that may get planted to winter wheat this Fall.
Mainly freezing, but probably a dryer load or 2, as well, just for SHTF storage.
Congratulations! Best of luck to you both!
I don’t care if you’re strange or not, so long as you’re not a stranger; come by more often.
Been off work for a couple of days, but it's been really hot (even by Arizona standards) and I haven't got much done. Today it was all I could do to give my plants a little drink to keep them from stressing.
Just about all my sprouts are outside now. After last weeks big rain and all the sun this week, everyone one is happy and growing like crazy. we trimmed back the little pepper sprouts and they responded really well.
Hope you're feeling better. You need to stay fit for the Spring! :)
I feel your pain. We have what’s called “quack grass” here and it’s hell to get out of the dirt without turning over and crumbling every last clod. The caliche is bad enough, but this stuff makes life rough for gardeners around here.
/johnny
I will! I have you guys on my laptop at work and I pop in when I can. I miss chatting about gardening with you guys - even though I do that for a living, too! It never gets old. :)
I didn’t check FR yesterday afternoon, but we are having warm weather here in Texas as well. 92 is the forecast high for Sunday. Got several tomatoes planted this week, along with onions, garlic, lettuce and turnips.
My dad’s next door neighbor has horses. He gets all the horse manure he wants. The trade is the neighbor gets veggies in the summer. Sounds like a good trade.
Here in the next week or two hubby and I will trek to my parents (about an hour away) and prep their garden. They’re too old for it now. They’re the reason we started using the newspapers and hay for weed control. We found last summer we could set out their garden plot (about 50X50) with tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, okra, etc and mulch it in about 2 afternoons of heavy work IF the newspapers and all had been pre-flatted. This way my parents have food for the summer/fall and it’s really only a matter of just walking out with a bucket and picking it. If it gets dry daddy moves soaker hoses around but even then it’s only a once a week or so chore. Mother usually cans excess. They’re still eating squash and beans from last summer and I think I saw 2 or 3 pumpkins still on the counter in the pantry too. We really need to work out a system that gives them a fall/winter garden too.
The manure hubby got was pre-composted. He did put 8 buckets of chicken poop in the compost pile though. Along with a couple sweeper loads of leaves. That ought to be really good compost to put in my raised beds for fall crops. And this is the year we’re going to try compost tea.
That’s good to know. I’m going to get some from the linky I got in this thread as soon as I’m finished with my coffee! Our chickens are rather spoiled.
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