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Post by grunt on Aug 4, 2009 16:24:42 GMT -5
Penny, Pattyp: We try and reduce the workload as much as possible. Lawnmowers make very good pathway cleaners once everything gets well established. I push everything vital out of the way, and the rest has to duck or suffer the consequences. The grapes are pruned in the "way" method = if they get in the way, they get pruned back to where they aren't in the way. all very scientific, don't you know.  |
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Post by mnjrutherford on Aug 4, 2009 21:07:23 GMT -5
Well, the first couple years the grass clippings kept going to "fix" the creek area. Then the compost pile, now the terra preta pit. I haven't convinced Mike to put them on the garden yet. I'm working on it though. We have other materials as well. It's just that we have so much garden and so little time. Which kinda sounds crazy in a way because this is where we spend nearly all our time. It isn't as though we go hopping about the way we did when we lived in California. Sometimes we don't leave the house for days at a time.
We have a fabulous life. It's like paradise here. Even with the weeds and the bugs....
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Post by grunt on Aug 5, 2009 0:18:28 GMT -5
Tell Mike that using the grass clippings as mulch will reduce the number of weeds you have to contend with. And weeds make good mulch too, especially if they go through the lawn mower first.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Aug 6, 2009 14:30:30 GMT -5
I try to tell him Dan! But I'm a girl!?!? So what the heck do I know? Opps, gotta go, ground lightening!
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Post by ottawagardener on Aug 6, 2009 18:50:04 GMT -5
Do girls en masse equal the weighted opinion of a Y chromosome because I agree grass and young weed clippings are great mulch.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Aug 7, 2009 6:16:05 GMT -5
Well Telsing, we might if the Y chrom could read. Sadly, public school and family didn't figure out he was dyslexic then, as a young adult when he FINALLY figured out how to read and was indeed reading his first novel, he realized the family macular degeneration was kicking in! I will, however, pass the message on and if we see you in Niagara you can "kick his tires" and tell him yourself! ;o)
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Post by ottawagardener on Aug 8, 2009 7:50:26 GMT -5
All the more incentive!
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Post by mnjrutherford on Aug 8, 2009 8:19:50 GMT -5
::laughing:: True that Telsing! True that! Though I think he might tell you I'm a bit "over incentivated" as it is. His eyes are a genetic condition. His mom had it and so do 3 of his 4 siblings. One day his mom went to bed and she never got up again. She had simply lost the will to live. I can't allow him to do that. He has to much to live for and he is at the same age she was when she gave up living. So... ;o)
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