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Post by richardw on Sept 19, 2015 2:32:29 GMT -5
Thanks, Richard. That's a lot of garden -all hand dug? and what's with the sprinklers? T Yes all hand dug, keeps me fit. Don't normally have sprinklers on this early in the growing season but with only one good rain in the last 11 months its very dry underneath the topsoil, but , ive just turned them off tonight as the forecast is for 4 days of rain, at long last. |
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Post by richardw on Sept 25, 2015 2:04:31 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Sept 25, 2015 2:51:09 GMT -5
That's a lovely slow-compost pile there; I've a bit different ecosystem, so I'd not put so much logs in the pile; rather burn 'em for heat; put in the ash; slow-pile is the only way I'll go, not having the time/energy to turn the pile.
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Post by richardw on Sept 25, 2015 14:09:48 GMT -5
I just see burning wasting carbon as i do put the ashes from the house fire on top along with any bones that get chucked into the fire as well.
Having time/energy to turn the pile is also something i like to avoid. Ive found i cant leave the compost any longer because the pine trees nearby send there roots into it.
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Post by yankee on Sept 25, 2015 21:16:24 GMT -5
You could make biochar...
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Post by richardw on Sept 26, 2015 13:40:30 GMT -5
Could, but again thats more work
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Post by richardw on Jan 5, 2016 0:01:56 GMT -5
After a few years of trying different ways to grow climbing beans in a one metre wide bed. This summer ive banged in star pegs on the windward side to support 1m wide horizontal fence netting at about 1.2m above the ground, then i use heaps of bamboo poked through the netting down into the ground  |
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Post by steev on Jan 5, 2016 0:45:14 GMT -5
Looks like it works.
That's your seed-lettuce in the near-left?
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Post by richardw on Jan 6, 2016 2:38:26 GMT -5
Yep, thats red oakleaf and the shorter ones Mescher
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Post by copse on Jan 7, 2016 17:00:03 GMT -5
Just noticed the video. Very interesting. I see at the start you're holding down the lucerne/alfalfa with wire netting, which I've started to do myself. I've done it this year for corn and just yesterday the yams/oca because it saves me fencing off an area from the chickens, for crops they won't eat.
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Post by richardw on Jan 8, 2016 0:14:29 GMT -5
I didnt need to in the end because when its layered down it very stable and wont blow around.
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Post by richardw on Feb 5, 2016 12:39:56 GMT -5
Putting a big effort this summer at producing a landrace sweet corn, in this 75 square metre area ive mixed up Golden Bantam, early gem, inca rainbow corn, 3 different commercial F1's, and 2 simi stabilized lines from gardening friends that were commercial F1 about 5 generations ago.  |
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Post by raymondo on Feb 5, 2016 13:44:38 GMT -5
All su corns richardw? Or are you mixing sh2 and su corns looking for the combo? |
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Post by richardw on Feb 5, 2016 19:12:47 GMT -5
Would i be right in saying that Golden Bantam, inca rainbow and early gem are su??, i take it that these are fine if mixed with sugary enhanced?( commercial F1's)
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Post by richardw on May 9, 2016 0:17:10 GMT -5
Nearly through the job of picking and sorting the corn crop seed,most will be used as poultry food, the seed is about 95% day, i'm stacking the cobs in crates to finish them. First to throw wheat over the top, then go through picking and cutting down the stalks with any weeds layed on top, the wheat ends up growing through.  |
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