I made the front page of the local paper this week, thought I'd gloat a bit.
metal content. that red table was a welding table my better half appropriated from me.
Karl
"The secret to strawberries is manure"
No shit ?
Wow! Congratulations!
The secret to tomatoes is manure too.
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You got it, a full semi load every fall.
lat year, the trucker called and asked where to dump when i wasn't home. So , I told him behind the greenhouse. turns out he was at the wrong address and my neighbor's house is painted green. I must have good neighbor's, Randy thought it was funny that a whole load of fresh turky shit was behind his porch.
Karl
How about carrots?
Karl Townsend fired this volley in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Karl,
When I bought my last property before this one, it was a bombed-out orange grove (dead from freezes). It had been abandoned for about ten years.
We (eventually) cleared it all, tilled and turned, then ran a soil sample out to the ag agent. He asked, "Where'd you get this -- the BEACH?"
It had ZERO organics in it... just plain white "sugar sand".
We contracted with a local chicken farmer who couldn't "get the shit out" fast enough. He delivered an 18-yard load once a week for a year. I tilled it in as fast as it arrived, because it stinks, bAD...
In two seasons, I had the prettiest pastures on that side of the county.
Shit happens. If you're lucky, it happens on your garden!
Lloyd
...LOL...
How do you want them to taste.....
Free advertising is always good!
I just have a small berry patch, but no fruit -if the deer don't eat the plants then the chipmunks swipe the berries.
MikeB
That must have been a surprise!
I picked up 10 quarts of local berries today. They will become strawberry/rhubarb pies, fruit leather, jam and more.
Back when I moved here there was a small 3 plant bed of rhubarb in the back. Over the past 20 years that was thinned out, transplanted, divided and moved around so that now there is about 50 large beds. Added a couple different types over the years and sold a bunch of shoots to neighbors as well.
Also have 10 nice elderberry bushes growing for this year. Currants didn't do so well but the black caps and raspberries are coming in nice.
Hey Karl,
Good stuff !! Nice they gave your address.
We had our first feed of local strawberries here today. Frances usually spends an hour or so at a nearby "U-Pick", but her back is still not good enough for that, so she bought some at the local grocers, and it turns out they come from another farm close to here.
Brian Laws>I made the front page of the local paper this week, thought I'd gloat
My neighbor has that problem. She replanted her strawberries all in raised beds. My comment was "Well at least the deer don't need to reach as far now" This area right now is infested with those damn over sized rats. Warm weather and no real predation means lot's of body shop work...
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High speed lead works well.
They will be sweeter, larger, and have far better texture.
Karl
I heard about a guy who stored his pickup under a tree in which some wild turkeys liked to nest. He came back a month later and there was literally no paint left on the hood. It seems that they liked to touch off on the hood on the way up into and down out of the tree.
-- Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing.
--Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, about 250 years ago
And Bambis make a mean stew, steaks, etc. Venison = YUM!
-- Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of which they know nothing.
--Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, about 250 years ago
Looks like a well deserved gloat. Only one concern, looks like you have more hair than I do.
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metal content. that red table was a welding table my better half appropriated from me.
Karl
I'd be concerned about the fecal bacteria getting into the food. How do you control that?
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You got it, a full semi load every fall.
lat year, the trucker called and asked where to dump when i wasn't home. So , I told him behind the greenhouse. turns out he was at the wrong address and my neighbor's house is painted green. I must have good neighbor's, Randy thought it was funny that a whole load of fresh turky shit was behind his porch.
Karl
Now, that's team work. Nice job. Glad it worked out for the both of you.
Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus
When I bought my last property before this one, it was a bombed-out orange grove (dead from freezes). It had been abandoned for about ten years.
We (eventually) cleared it all, tilled and turned, then ran a soil sample out to the ag agent. He asked, "Where'd you get this -- the BEACH?"
It had ZERO organics in it... just plain white "sugar sand".
We contracted with a local chicken farmer who couldn't "get the shit out" fast enough. He delivered an 18-yard load once a week for a year. I tilled it in as fast as it arrived, because it stinks, bAD...
In two seasons, I had the prettiest pastures on that side of the county.
Shit happens. If you're lucky, it happens on your garden!
Lloyd
Land sits fallow for three years, Grow sudan grass all summer, apply seven tons manure per acre in late fall and plow down. The plant strawberries in the spring. One year to establish planting. So, last manure application was 18 months before the first crop.
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