we have about 15-20 acres of beaver ponds...We have a 3 acre pond that we had built. Its 26 feet deep at the dam. We stocked it "literally to the gills" with bluegill, shell cracker, largemouth bass, crappie, and channel catfish. Feeding fish commercial feed is expensive
hi and thanks for the good info. I live in southeast Alabama so cold weather isnt an issue here. I really was thinking it could probably take 5-10 years to get our soil to where it is productive enough to call it a garden. My spot is 45 feet x 30 ft. Gonna need a whole lotta hummus.
Oh and we get a pretty fair amount of chicken poop from 16 birds. We dont use any type of bedding. The floor of our coops are made from hardware cloth so the poop falls through
We do have plenty of leaves that have fallen. Also we have a big igloo cooler that we raise redworms in for fishing. We use spangum peat moss as their bedding. Their bedding gets changed every 6 months. That generates some nice material for improving our soil...but not enough.
We bought this...
Last year we bought a tiller. We tilled up a spot and had some success with some veggies. Some didnt do as well as we had hoped.
Our soil is super sandy. We really need to improve the soil in our garden spot somehow. I pretty much threw a bag of 8-8-8 granular fertilizer on the spot and tilled...