On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 3:25:51 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
Pavel314 wrote:
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From the weather reports, it looks like last night was our last below-freezing night. My wife pulled up the garden cloth that covers the paths between the rows in the back quarter of the garden this morning and I tilled it up for her.

mm, smell of fresh dirt...


Lots of seeding trays in the greenhouse and cold frames, plus lots of healthy vegetables in her auxiliary greenhouses, the clear boxes I built to extend the growing season in the garden.

all would be very frozen here. it's been rather rediculous
compared to normal (whatever that may be), but i'm sure i'll
get over it.


I'll be planting the wild rice seed later this week, carefully following the directions that came with the seed packets. I've tried growing them several times before without success.

good luck!

if the wild rice spreads by stolons you may wish to have
a good border around it if our past experience is any thing
to go by. it sent runners out many-many feet travelling
along barriers, under black plastic, etc. very hard to
control until i ripped everything up and tracked all the
roots/stolons/runners and got them out of there.


songbird

I dug two rice paddies into the hill on the side of the pond. The walls are lined with plastic cloth to slow any leakage and the whole thing is surrounded by a woven-wire fence. If anything creeps out beyond the fence, the sheep will eat it before it gets very far.

We have a small creek on the north end of the property; I'm thinking of planting a few seeds in the slow eddies just to see what happens.

Paul