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How deep for onions?
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.... http://www.southernexposure.com/yell...-oz-p-873.html http://www.southernexposure.com/grey...oz-p-1441.html linked right in there... http://www.southernexposure.com/garl...de-ezp-29.html songbird |
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How deep for onions?
On 09/15/2016 05:16 PM, songbird wrote:
T wrote: ... http://www.southernexposure.com/yell...-oz-p-873.html http://www.southernexposure.com/grey...oz-p-1441.html linked right in there... http://www.southernexposure.com/garl...de-ezp-29.html songbird I missed that! "... depth of at least 8 in., preferably 12 in." I am about 8 inches down. The rocks have become pretty big and take about 20 minutes of work to extract. I tell myself I will only have to do this once. The other part of me says, but you will continue to expand and have to do this over and over and over. I am reminded of farms I have seen with rock walls made from rocks they dug out. I must have taken them years! -T |
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How deep for onions?
T wrote:
.... "... depth of at least 8 in., preferably 12 in." I am about 8 inches down. The rocks have become pretty big and take about 20 minutes of work to extract. 8 is probably plenty (i don't ever see onion roots going down that far when i pull ours). maybe that extra depth is for the garlic... I tell myself I will only have to do this once. The other part of me says, but you will continue to expand and have to do this over and over and over. I am reminded of farms I have seen with rock walls made from rocks they dug out. I must have taken them years! yes, remember, to start with, all was molten rock, without wind/water and plate techtonics we'd not be here. use the rocks to make wind blocks. your plants won't have to struggle so hard and the area will hold more moisture longer. all of our rocks were brought here by trucks and cars (and once in a while a cement mixer as they can chute crushed limestone nicely ). there may be rocks down deeper but they are covered by layers of coal, salt, sand, clay, etc. the glaciers left a few here or there. songbird |
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How deep for onions?
On 09/17/2016 11:13 AM, songbird wrote:
T wrote: ... "... depth of at least 8 in., preferably 12 in." I am about 8 inches down. The rocks have become pretty big and take about 20 minutes of work to extract. 8 is probably plenty (i don't ever see onion roots going down that far when i pull ours). maybe that extra depth is for the garlic... Thank you! I think 12" might kill me. My garlic never goes below about 4" I tell myself I will only have to do this once. The other part of me says, but you will continue to expand and have to do this over and over and over. I am reminded of farms I have seen with rock walls made from rocks they dug out. I must have taken them years! yes, remember, to start with, all was molten rock, without wind/water and plate techtonics we'd not be here. or the moon for that matter. plate techtonics is the great recycler. use the rocks to make wind blocks. your plants won't have to struggle so hard and the area will hold more moisture longer. all of our rocks were brought here by trucks and cars (and once in a while a cement mixer as they can chute crushed limestone nicely ). there may be rocks down deeper but they are covered by layers of coal, salt, sand, clay, etc. the glaciers left a few here or there. We have glacier retreats near by. I always love to see huge out of place boulders in fields that don't seem like they belong. songbird |
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Why Do It Then [WAS] How deep for onions?
On 09/16/2016 04:10 PM, Derald wrote:
Elsewhere, T wrote: I am about 8 inches down. The rocks have become pretty big and take about 20 minutes of work to extract. I tell myself I will only have to do this once. The other part of me says, but you will continue to expand and have to do this over and over and over. I am reminded of farms I have seen with rock walls made from rocks they dug out. I must have taken them years! Well, why do it, then? Follow your neighbor's lead and grow in raised beds. It's easy to start small using containers and to scale the garden to match ones experience, skill level and resources. Hi Derald, To answer your question, it is because this endless recession has hit me so hard that I can not afford it. I can barely buy food for the family. Manual labor: I have in good supply. And if I don't push the envelope, I will never learn anything. This group has good teachers. After doing it this way, I agree with Songbird's assessment on raised beds. So, it was a blessing in disguise. As for small containers, my manual labor substitute is to "carve" out holes (I call them ground pots) and beds in my rocks/dirt (I would not call it soil). Ground pots are cheap and they don't blow over. They also have good drainage. And, I am not prepping places I don't use. I pile the bottom full of weeds and vegetable table scraps. Then I mix in my high Ph dirt with organic fertilizer and peat moss (a form of vegi table scraps plus a few 100,000 years). So, far, it is working marvelously. I got decent peppers and egg plant this year. The zukes are still a bit slow on producing, but I hae so many that I have been freezing about have what I cook up now for about three weeks. As I said, this group has good teachers. -T Hopefully, the recession's back will be broken here in a few months with the coming change of power in our government. |
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Why Do It Then [WAS] How deep for onions?
On 09/16/2016 04:36 PM, T wrote:
about have about half |
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