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starting back up for the year
pulling off the last of the old bean vines from the
fence. chopping up the wild grapevines so i can spread them on the surface of a garden (don't want to bury them until they've dried out for another year or two). will take me a few more days to get all of those done. not sure the weather is going to cooperate much more for me to be outside this week. we'll see. plugging up groundhog den. songbird |
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On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 12:43:23 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
pulling off the last of the old bean vines from the fence. chopping up the wild grapevines so i can spread them on the surface of a garden (don't want to bury them until they've dried out for another year or two). will take me a few more days to get all of those done. not sure the weather is going to cooperate much more for me to be outside this week. we'll see. plugging up groundhog den. songbird 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. 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. 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. Paul North-east of Baltimore |
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Pavel314 wrote:
.... 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 |
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On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 3:25:51 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
Pavel314 wrote: ... 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 |
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Pavel314 wrote:
.... 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. oh, yeah, sheep will keep it down. 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. if the grasses already along there are holding the banks in place you may not want a taller grass shading them out. we've had the large drainage ditch out back shifting because we made the mistake of shading out some grasses and it is not a good thing to be having to deal with... i'm going to need hip waders and a nice dry summer to put large chunks of dirt and grasses back along the closer bank. too bad it didn't shift the other direction. i wouldn't have minded that as much. but of course, with the grass gone along that bank the water flows easier/faster and takes it out even more. lesson learned. songbird |
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On 4/14/2018 12:20 PM, songbird and derald wrote:
Â* A lot of stuff that I snipped ... Â* We got a buncha rain last night , looking at near/freezing temps tonight and tomorrow . Then the forecast is for above-freezing lows and a week or more of no rain . Just right for my timing of my seedlings , they're ready . The next few days will have me finishing up the amendments to the garden , getting stuff planted and mulching with straw .. That'll start tomorrow if it's dry enough . -- Snag Ain't no dollar sign on peace of mind - Zac Brown |
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Terry Coombs wrote:
.... Â* We got a buncha rain last night , looking at near/freezing temps tonight and tomorrow . Then the forecast is for above-freezing lows and a week or more of no rain . Just right for my timing of my seedlings , they're ready . The next few days will have me finishing up the amendments to the garden , getting stuff planted and mulching with straw . That'll start tomorrow if it's dry enough . *cheers!* hope the late frosts don't getcha! songbird |
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On 4/14/2018 4:08 PM, songbird wrote:
Terry Coombs wrote: ... Â* We got a buncha rain last night , looking at near/freezing temps tonight and tomorrow . Then the forecast is for above-freezing lows and a week or more of no rain . Just right for my timing of my seedlings , they're ready . The next few days will have me finishing up the amendments to the garden , getting stuff planted and mulching with straw . That'll start tomorrow if it's dry enough . *cheers!* hope the late frosts don't getcha! songbird Â* Me too ! Our usual last frost is around the 15th of April , and only once have I had a problem planting this early - 2 or was it 3 years ago I planted on the 15th and it frosted that night . Nearly lost it all ... so now I watch the forecast more closely . I figger it'll be towards mid-week before I actually get started setting plants out , still gotta harden them off a bit more . -- Snag Ain't no dollar sign on peace of mind - Zac Brown |
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Fresh Peas Indeed [WAS] starting back up for the year
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