Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

[CapricornFarm]

Here are my veggies that are still growing today...

 

[lazy gardener]

Jealous.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Jealous.

Me too, nothing but a crop of snow and frozen fingers here.

 

[Pensmaster]

A few measly tomatoes picked today. Major work on compost pile.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Jealous.

I am thinking this next week will do them in. That is what happened this year, i just get things growing nicely and some disease or bug kills it, or a varmint eats it. I may be sorry but i turned off the hotwire.

 

[Sunshine Flock]

I was wondering what you all think about building some raised veggie beds in close proximity to our very old septic tanks. Our house was build in 1965. The tanks are entirely cement and are a foot or so from our sunroom (a porch the former owners enclosed).

They're buried and the land slopes downhill from the tanks. Raised beds on the surface shouldn't be a problem, I'm thinking, and some folks do use human waste from composting toilets in their gardens. The rosemary is extra green right up against the tank lids, so I'm sure there's a leak or moisture vapors that escape.

The sun on that side is fully west and north facing and full force, no shade. It's a great location for a couple of reasons, one being how close it is to the house and the garden hose.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I was wondering what you all think about building some raised veggie beds in close proximity to our very old septic tanks. Our house was build in 1965. The tanks are entirely cement and are a foot or so from our sunroom (a porch the former owners enclosed).

They're buried and the land slopes downhill from the tanks. Raised beds on the surface shouldn't be a problem, I'm thinking, and some folks do use human waste from composting toilets in their gardens. The rosemary is extra green right up against the tank lids, so I'm sure there's a leak or moisture vapors that escape.

The sun on that side is fully west and north facing and full force, no shade. It's a great location for a couple of reasons, one being how close it is to the house and the garden hose.

There should be no problem doing that. My husband swears our garden is over the old septic system because the grass is much greener there.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I was wondering what you all think about building some raised veggie beds in close proximity to our very old septic tanks. Our house was build in 1965. The tanks are entirely cement and are a foot or so from our sunroom (a porch the former owners enclosed).

They're buried and the land slopes downhill from the tanks. Raised beds on the surface shouldn't be a problem, I'm thinking, and some folks do use human waste from composting toilets in their gardens. The rosemary is extra green right up against the tank lids, so I'm sure there's a leak or moisture vapors that escape.

The sun on that side is fully west and north facing and full force, no shade. It's a great location for a couple of reasons, one being how close it is to the house and the garden hose.

I have the exact same situation. Not worried at all. Except if they have to empty the tank, the pipe is in the middle of my garden. And i plan to put my greenhouse in the direction of the leach bed. Not sure exactly where it is.But there is little open land here, most of the rest is covered in trees and or shaded.

 

[Sunshine Flock]

Whew, thank you. It's always nice hearing from other folks who have similar situations.

We filled in the original septic tanks located at the back of our property. I'm not sure why they were put so far back. The previous owners left the double cement tanks open in the ground and put leaves down there to decompose. But we have a large depression just before that probably made by a bulldozer in the 1960s, and I turned it into a mulch field. I mulch the cat litter and smaller materials I don't want to burn.

The cat litter is pine shavings I buy by the bale, the same people use in the coop. I stopped using it for that and use one third leaves and two thirds pine needles. I love the pine needles in there, and so do the hens!

A few years ago when I was using manufactured wheat kitty litter, I ended up with a large crop of wheat in the mulch field. Hehehe!!!

 

[N F C]

Me too, nothing but a crop of snow and frozen fingers here.

Sounds like what I grow around here!