[greeneyes]

https://www.motherearthliving.com/gardening/organic-fertilizer-soil-amendments-ze0z1206zmel

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uoc-fft040219.php

Pinging the list. Not sure why links weren’t clickable in my initial post so I’m adding them here.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, the links in the initial post message never show up “live” for some reason. Beats me.

[tubebender]

We did get 140 strawberries planted but I still have to install drip irrigation and then mulch them...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks greeneyes.

[Ellendra]

Baker Creek keeps sending me surprise packages. In addition to the 1600 eggplant seeds they sent me earlier in the year, they’ve now sent me 600 cucumber seeds, 500 cowpea seeds, and about a pound of lima bean seeds.

I know this is my dream job, but there are times those numbers get daunting! Good thing they pay well.

I made the mistake of going to get fence posts during the spring baby chick sale. I now have a brooder box full of little cheepers in my bedroom. I probably could have resisted the cuteness, but I saw one that had Pasty Butt, and the staff person I told didn’t seem to know what I was talking about. I just didn’t have the heart to let the little thing suffer like that! And of course, you can’t raise just one chick.

I’d been planning to expand my flock, just not quite this soon.

[daniel1212]

https://www.motherearthliving.com/gardening/organic-fertilizer-soil-amendments-ze0z1206zmel https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uoc-fft040219.php Pinging the list. Not sure why links weren’t clickable in my initial post so I’m adding them here.

Thanks. We would like to get a permit for a cow  in this populous city, but even one for a driveway can be hard.

So we used this https://www.homedepot.com/p/Black-Kow-50-lb-Organic-Composted-Manure-50150006/100158414 which is now hard to find locally for around $5. .

Hope to get some of this also, God willing: 3 cu. ft. Peat Moss$11

Miracle-Gro 0.75 cu. ft. All Purpose Garden Soil $2

Texas Native 40 lbs. Enriched Topsoil$2

I need to start tomato and butternut squash seedlings this week, using screened topsoil and whatever I should mix with it. I lack the South facing window space this year (furniture) and temps are still around 50 daytime and under 40 often at night, so it looks like i will need to cut back on the numbers.

As for Why did we ever start farming? Because,

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. (Genesis 2:15)