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Nice work buddy :). And yes I am hoping to drop in for a day when all this stuffs knee high... the thought makes me hungry..lol Some folks never do anything worth while half way.. hats off to you fer being one of them and causing me to try harder!
This is my little garden, only the start. 3 1/2 ft wide 9 ft long knees high, Cost.. $7 (for purchased compost). The rest was reused soil, reused cardboard boxes, recycled small trees which the township had cut along the road side. Free wood chips as cover.
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Welcome Gille. I grow tomatoes hydroponically and organically on the cheap also and enjoy that the most. There’s a privately run compost outfit here that is selling compost for $5 a feed bag full and triple mix for $ 40 a square yard this weekend. I’ll be hauling all one day. It’s really nice stuff. An old timer told me once that “growing your own food was like having a licence to print money” it kind a stuck.
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Cool ClayPick. If you search on youtube for Back To Eden Gardening you will find an hour an a half long gardening video by a guy named Paul Gautschi. His idea on ground cover and the effects of healthy soil are something that has really stuck in my brain. I spent part of the day yesterday clearing a 50 foot long section against or northern fence. It gets the East West full sun. We'll be using the wood chips on top as cover. I found a semi-local tree removal company who will drop me a free load when ever he's working in town. After watching the video I figured it best to build so we added sheep manure compost to the top of our existing soil then on top added a layer well composted mulch and on top of that we placed the wood chips. You do not plant in the chips, you pull them back and plant in the soil filling the chips back in as the plant grows. So far we only have 3 green onions and one rhubarb planted but we have plenty of seedlings sprouting in containers. Just thinking about it is enough to turn me into a herbivore...lol
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Nice video. Buddy has a good handle on the rhythm and how it all works. Nothing brings a smile to my face quicker than when you hear “Ya can’t grow nothin here.” I’ve got enough set aside from the pension cheques and should be getting a splitter but i’ve always wanted a chipper and am getting that instead.:D
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Our family moved from Newfoundland 41 years ago at the ripe ole age of 10. I wonder if having the wood chips for a few years would help the soil down east. Guess Nova Scotia is close enough in climate ;)
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The only good soil here is alluvial deposits in the valleys. Newfoundland is about the same only worse. They don’t call it the Rock for nothing. Seaweed and fish processing residue sure is wonderful stuff. I have access to lots of hot cow manure and should have been mixing that with wood chips a long time ago. Wood is mineral rich like seaweed. I recently picked up a flame weeder at a yard sale ....... funny how my wife is all for the wood chip mulch now. LOL!
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