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Post by thetrooper on Dec 13, 2021 11:11:36 GMT -6
My wife and I did our first legit garden this past spring at home. Been planting food plots and trees for a long time so when we moved to our new house we setup a garden the following spring. Did a raised lasagna bed with layers of horse shit, hay, leaves, and then dressed the top with mushroom compost. It's kind of a big U shape with a 4ft walkway in the middle. It's about 12x24 all together. Put heavy duty landscape fabric around the perimeter and chicken wire. I made a 7 strand electric fence set real low off the ground to keep varmints away. Unfortunately we dont live in the country so we had to make it work with the space we have. Spring we did peas, carrots, spinach, lettuce, then did beans, corn, potatoes, cucumbers and tomatoes. Finally before fall we did more peas, carrots, lettuce, spinach. Then we dressed the top with winter wheat to gold the soil til next year. Looks like the photos didnt come out in order but oh well                                                |
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Post by Sandbur on Dec 13, 2021 11:56:54 GMT -6
That looks like a great idea.
I have some raised beds for individual apple trees, but I may not have them high enough.
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Post by sd51555 on Dec 13, 2021 12:02:49 GMT -6
That is a legit garden right there. Holy smokes!
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Post by daydreamer on Dec 13, 2021 12:25:46 GMT -6
Some serious tonnage out of a relatively small area. Great job. I need to take control of our raised bed next year.
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Post by benmnwi on Dec 13, 2021 12:31:45 GMT -6
That's an impressive garden.
When I lived in town I would always plant some squash and pumpkins outside the main garden. The local rabbits never bothered them at all and as the fast growing squash and pumpkin vines expanded it gave me an excuse not to mow a good portion of my yard. I hated push mowing my old lawn.
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Post by biglakebass on Dec 13, 2021 12:40:23 GMT -6
Goddam impressive!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by thetrooper on Dec 13, 2021 12:49:33 GMT -6
We're going to start canning this year. Hopefully learn a thing or two about it before the garden is up and running
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Post by sd51555 on Dec 13, 2021 13:45:09 GMT -6
We're going to start canning this year. Hopefully learn a thing or two about it before the garden is up and running Do it. You'll come to love it quickly. I was out yesterday scouting for ash logs to make a border for a similar venture this upcoming season. I wanna build one of those, but go down about 4-5' and fill it with all my trash wood around the yard and then backfill it and throw some topsoil and half composted chips on top. |
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Post by Catscratch on Dec 13, 2021 14:02:12 GMT -6
Serious critter control you've got there! And one hell of a nice garden. Did you mix any of the soil and straw, or just let the soil sit on top?
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Post by thetrooper on Dec 13, 2021 14:18:58 GMT -6
We're going to start canning this year. Hopefully learn a thing or two about it before the garden is up and running Do it. You'll come to love it quickly. I was out yesterday scouting for ash logs to make a border for a similar venture this upcoming season. I wanna build one of those, but go down about 4-5' and fill it with all my trash wood around the yard and then backfill it and throw some topsoil and half composted chips on top. Nice...we out a few logs in the bottom of that garden but didnt have many to use |
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Post by thetrooper on Dec 13, 2021 14:22:44 GMT -6
Serious critter control you've got there! And one hell of a nice garden. Did you mix any of the soil and straw, or just let the soil sit on top? I got a little hippy buddy who does these things and told me about lasagna beds. Dude lives in Vermont and sells his produce. Its actually no soil. It's all in layers so it was Cardboard...logs...horse manure...leaves...straw...manure repeat those layers...then 2 or 3 pick up loads of mushroom compost on the top. Then straw just to keep the bed moist. But all the layers compost down and kept the bed nice and fluffy. The mushroom compost has no weed seed in it either and the layering smothers out weed seed too so very minimal weed issues |
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Post by kooch on Dec 13, 2021 14:36:47 GMT -6
SD may have just had an orgasm reading your last post.  |
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Post by sd51555 on Dec 13, 2021 15:01:36 GMT -6
SD may have just had an orgasm reading your last post. Weeds are God's soil report card. Good crops as well. |
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Post by Sandbur on Dec 13, 2021 15:31:13 GMT -6
SD may have just had an orgasm reading your last post. Either trooper is going to fit in or give up on this group. |
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Post by Tooln on Dec 13, 2021 16:20:32 GMT -6
Very impressive there Trooper well maybe not the horse shit part.
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