BYC gardening thread!!

[marktoo]

I'll not hold my breath!

Well, then campaign for a large rear tine tiller, or if you already have a tiller, the broadfork. He will counter with the need for a welder & promise to build you the broadfork...then hold him to his promise. However, it may be cheaper in the long run to just buy the broadfork.

I'm so looking forward to seeing what kind of enhancement the girls do to my garden this year! I got chickens more for the value of their manure and weed/pest management abilities than I did for eggs/meat!

Ditto!

 

[lazy gardener]

Well, then campaign for a large rear tine tiller, or if you already have a tiller, the broadfork. He will counter with the need for a welder & promise to build you the broadfork...then hold him to his promise. However, it may be cheaper in the long run to just buy the broadfork.

Ditto!

Got the tiller. Prefer to work the soil by hand... when it needs it at all which is not very often. I agree re: purchasing the broadfork, and I could just go out and buy one, but I'm not currently working, and would have a hard time justifying the expense. Not a big deal either way.

 

[Beulah89]

I've got bananas, paw paw, tomatoes, strawberries, passion fruit, corn, mint, basil, rosemary, watermelon, rockmelon, honey dew melon and lichees. Also butterfly host plants and flowers.

 

[marktoo]

Got the tiller. Prefer to work the soil by hand... when it needs it at all which is not very often. I agree re: purchasing the broadfork, and I could just go out and buy one, but I'm not currently working, and would have a hard time justifying the expense. Not a big deal either way.

Guess, you're not such a Lazy gardener after all.

I've got bananas, paw paw, tomatoes, strawberries, passion fruit, corn, mint, basil, rosemary, watermelon, rockmelon, honey dew melon and lichees. Also butterfly host plants and flowers.

Welcome! Sounds awesome! Pic??

 

[lazy gardener]

LG handle refers to my gardening methods. Keep everything under a thick layer of mulch. Minimal working of the soil, only open enough to get the seeds or transplants in, no weeding, minimal watering, basically plant and harvest.

 

[SunnySkies]

I HATE weeding. If I could figure out how to entirely get rid of weeds with no work on my part, I'd go there. But I think I'm still a ways from that with my garden not even a year out from having been a hayfield, lol.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I HATE weeding. If I could figure out how to entirely get rid of weeds with no work on my part, I'd go there. But I think I'm still a ways from that with my garden not even a year out from having been a hayfield, lol.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/772337/chicken-run
Check this out!

 

[marktoo]

LG handle refers to my gardening methods. Keep everything under a thick layer of mulch. Minimal working of the soil, only open enough to get the seeds or transplants in, no weeding, minimal watering, basically plant and harvest.

A follower of Ruth Stout. Tried & true method! I would do the same if only I had a good source of mulch but I refuse to bring in any mulch from the outside except for leaves. I grow most of my mulch during the winter.

I HATE weeding. If I could figure out how to entirely get rid of weeds with no work on my part, I'd go there. But I think I'm still a ways from that with my garden not even a year out from having been a hayfield, lol.

Everybody hates weeds! Even the people that eat the ones that are editable would rather they didn't grow in the first place. Farmers spend thousands of $ to eradicate them. Gotta admire their tenacity though. We plant our veggies & tend them with TLC & do our darnedest to kill the weeds, still the veggies sometime struggle while the weeds thrive.

 

[SunnySkies]

I'm mulching as much as I can with straw from a farmer I know (I buy it by the round bale, actually, and he makes it for dairy farmers to bed their cattle with) but I'm thinking of going to plastic for a couple years while I get the weeds mostly under control in my huge garden (100x120...the density of chickens in it to kill all the weeds would cost me a fortune, lol) and then pulling it up. No till would eventually really help with the weeds.

The pigs are having such a good time weeding and tilling that they broke out of their pen and ran all over the garden. The dogs sort of held them on our property until I could round them up. While the pigs are doing a fabulous job, chickens are easier to catch!

 

[Beulah89]

Guess, you're not such a Lazy gardener after all.

Welcome!  Sounds awesome!  Pic??

Here some pics,