Posted on 09/17/2019 3:12:48 AM PDT by orsonwb
Red wrigglers....work great
5 gallon blender? Did you put a rototilller inside a barrel?
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs laying in a pile of leaves?
Our garden is still producing a few cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers...
My beekeeping honey extractor. I put a shaft with a 4 flange bearing with sharpened paddle mixer on the shaft, running at 1130 RPM. It turns from above so you can do it with any 5 gallon bucket.
Ditto all dat dirt...........
I have read 1 3 brown (leafs etc.) to 1 green ration is best, and which I have tried to follow in my 64gal trash barrel compost, but which works slow due to its sunless location and the cooler and winter months.
But what should the ratio of fruit be?
This year I had an abundance of tomatoes and cukes and was giving them away to family and neighbors. Peppers were a disappointment - about a half-dozen smallish ones.
I plant sunflowers and pumpkins just for color - one of the pumpkins is pushing 80 pounds!
“Jumping worms....”
Crap...I found a bunch of them on my driveway after a rain!
Eric...just finished filling and sealing my driveway as well. (Getting ready for winter!)
Still have Okra, tomatoes, peppers putting out fruit. (Planted lettuce, Beets, and Carrots 2 weeks ago. May get some beets. We will see!)
I have a small footage yet to do (likely Wednesday) and will observe the result as cooler weather comes on.
The surface of my blacktop was starting to degrade, the cracks were larger, the concrete underneath was chalky.
I spent 4 days chiseling out the broken up parts and patching it all up with blacktop. (Something called aquaphalt, expensive. You spray it with water to activate and tamp it down. Cures within 24 hours which is a major consideration.
Glad its done.
I also used Black Jack sealer. Done before winter and hopefully it will hold for the next 4 years. After that its time to replace the whole driveway!
“New research out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum shows that temperatures of about 100 degrees Fahrenheit kill the cocoons of invasive jumping worms.”
Good deal! It gets above 100 degrees here in Kansas a couple of times a year, and hotter than that in my garden! (Sun reflects off a fence!) Hopefully that will take care of them!
I've started a free standing compost pile with some older compost, lots of green leaves, old fruit, egg shells, egg cartons,etc, and now I'm collecting coffee grounds at work when I can.....glass clippings and dry leaves as I can get them....
Cracks in asphalt expand when the weather cools.
I’ll likely have to go over what I’ve done in a few months...
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