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a time to plant

Penny — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:39:00 +0000

When we first started our garden spot is was really bad soil. But it was a good spot. I figured it was easier to improve the soil than to move the sun or the hill so that is what we have been working n for 4 years. It is now really good. But we still do things the way we used to. For the most part we use the Ford 4000 tractor to turn the soil a bit and put in rows. All we have is a box blade so this requires a little ingenuity but it works. Then we use all of that lovely compost to put on top of each row. We do wide rows with a shallow trench down the middle.

garden tea

Penny — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:36:00 +0000

All of this lovely mess will be used initially when we first plant the garden, but we will also keep compost piles going for later. You don’t usually want to put the compost directly on the plants until it is well aged but there is another way to use it that can even work for house plants. Manure tea. Does that sound disgusting or what? Make sure to keep it in an outside dirty bucket so no one gets confused. Ok the recipe. You take a 5 bucket and fill about ¼ full of that lovely aged manure, the results of your compost pile. Then add water, warm water is best, stir well. Let sit for a day or so then use the water to water your plants. It works great!

composting

Penny — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:31:00 +0000

When composting your manure you can also add in other plant waste products. Other plant waste products would be potatoes peels, fruit peels, egg shells, coffee grounds, and all those thousands of pounds of leaves your youngins raked up and jumped in and re-raked. If you happen to be getting your horse manure from a barn and it has shavings in it then that is all the better. Horse manure mixed with shavings is the best there is. If you don’t have horses I would be happy to sell you one J just kidding. But usually a local barn will give you manure and used shavings. You load.