Hey guys, I recently (as in 2 days ago) planted a couple boysenberry bareroot plants. I planted them in my garden along with a brown turkey fig tree right outside. I added some worm castings and mycorhizal fungi with everything. I have mushrooms coming up everywhere after a nasty storm...
Water water water before you think about planting. Before I put down my BTE stuff my soil was hard rocky sand clay with lots of caliche. It's still rocky sand clay with calivhe, but now I can actually dig a bit to plant transplants. You can see the difference between the dirt right outside the...
I loved his videos. I've even written to him and received a letter back. He's right though if you think about it. Nature takes everything and continuously gives back. My area doesn't have a chance to do natural cover because of our fall and spring winds. I'm helping nature by adding the wood...
Paul Gautchi actually gives away everything. Well except what they eat lol. I decided to move some of the mulch around 1 of my trees while trying to pull grass yesterday and it's starting to break down. I put a little blood meal on when I added the mulch back in February. This tree went through...
Can I have some of that? Lol. I live out in the middle of the Tularosa Basin in NM. We have nasty caliche clay soil. I've been working on trying to get a BTE garden going. I have a small bed right on the east side of my porch that I've had Rosemary in for about 3 yrs. I got some alfalfa grass...
I know it's going to take time to get everything right. It's in the experiment stage for me right now. I had to get my potatoes in the ground yesterday because they were sprouting and getting a soft. Hopefully they really grow.
I just started my journey on a BTE garden. I finally got done laying the wood mulch yesterday. I have my nasty yucky NM soil then composted horse manure mixed with hay, then cardboard and the mulch on top. I'm going to add a bit of my chicken compost on top by sprinkling it over the top. I have...