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[lazy gardener]

I don't know who was talking about eating raw beets. But, I bet they are good. I cook mine, peel, slice and eat with butter, salt, and ACV. Yummy. The chickens get my beet water.

Have gotten 2 truck loads of wood chips this week. I found a vein of chips that is composted nicely, with black crumbly humus between the chips. May go back for an other load today. (I love my town dump!!!)

Currently working on mulching an area infested with poison ivy beside the road. Have hand pulled 3 - 4 times, and now laid down some thick layers of cardboard, followed by wood chips.

Got a new load of cardboard yesterday, so can tackle more of that area. The rest of the cardboard will go in my sheet composting area, followed by grass clippings and leaves.

 

[chickengr]

grated raw beets are good. you can add some grated carrots and onions if you like them.

I prefer them boiled with acv, olive oil, some salt and garlic.

I let a few chickens to scratch and eat weeds and bugs in my vegetable garden in the evening. then I put some bedding from the coops (pine shavings or pine needles with chicken poops. no weeds for a while. and they have not destroyed any of my vegetables.

 

[karenerwin]

I am very new to BTE gardening. In that I have just started chipping a downed tree and putting the chips on top of newspaper in my garden.
My question is: is oak tree chips ok to use for BTE? Hopefully it is because that is what I have available. I too have not been able to get any tree services to dump wood chips here either.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have always used BTE in most way's never had a group to join till here and the sister site the easy gardening this year will be the first as one compost is old enough to spread in the tires we are using as stacking two high I do not have to bend to weed or harvest adding 6 more tire set's for next year that will give us a even dozen

 

[Flashpoint]

I made beet jelly out of some of my beets.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I like to steam them little olive oil in the water salt and pepper

 

[lazy gardener]

I am very new to BTE gardening. In that I have just started chipping a downed tree and putting the chips on top of newspaper in my garden.
My question is: is oak tree chips ok to use for BTE? Hopefully it is because that is what I have available. I too have not been able to get any tree services to dump wood chips here either.

IMO, use what you have. As long as it's not Black Walnut, or any other tree that possesses aleopathic properties.

I like to steam them little olive oil in the water salt and pepper

that sounds absolutely delightful. I've been using a lot more olive oil lately.

I put out 10 mouse traps in the garden yesterday. In spite of a night of rain that was pretty heavy at times, I caught one mouse, and one vole. Will bury them in the garden. Seems to be a fitting disposition to creatures that intend to rob me of my food supply. Make their little decomposing bodies feed next year's crops.

 

[pennyJo1960]

IMO, use what you have. As long as it's not Black Walnut, or any other tree that possesses aleopathic properties.

that sounds absolutely delightful. I've been using a lot more olive oil lately.

I put out 10 mouse traps in the garden yesterday. In spite of a night of rain that was pretty heavy at times, I caught one mouse, and one vole. Will bury them in the garden. Seems to be a fitting disposition to creatures that intend to rob me of my food supply. Make their little decomposing bodies feed next year's crops.

We have a gsd and 3 outside cats plus a crazy white dog great pyrenees mice, voles and gophers are history here find dead bodies for a bit where they left them for me no new mounds no new bodies

 

[lazy gardener]

A week or so, I harvested potatoes from a HB garden. The yield was impressive. Big, chunky, dry fleshed, no signs of scab. These were bales that sat out unprotected all winter. The strings were mostly rotten when I moved them out of the chicken run and across the lawn (used a kid's plastic snow sled). Fertilized the bales with heavy application of lawn fertilizer. Those bales did not need any further fertilization all summer. Given the success of this crop, I plan to set up a HB row in the orchard this fall and grow my entire potato crop in HB next season.

The spent bales from this season will be moved into the green house to use for mulch over the 2 growing beds. Currently watering the beds to sprout off any weed seeds (there are a lot since I just closed the doors and walked away from it this spring.) All those weeds went to seed. As I pulled the weeds out, they shed a lot of seeds. My bad! A lot of Kale sprouting in one of the beds, as well as some lettuce... So, I'll have to decide if I weed around the good stuff, or destroy it all.

 

[lazy gardener]

Exciting news in Eden: I have wine cap mushrooms! I plucked one of 4. Plan to leave the biggest one to spawn next year's crop. They are big and chunky. Solid. fat stems. A friend that I gave spawn to had a flush of them about 3 weeks ago. Now, to decide what to do with them if they produce a bumper crop. Blanche and freeze? Dry? Can? Any readers have experience preserving mushrooms for future use????