"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Angelicisi]

Ladders work great! I cut an old wood one in half, nailed in an "A" shape and harvest was easy!

NICE use of pallets! I like that! I am going to try this!
I scored an old partially broken ladder I'm going to use to trellis my cukes on.

 

[Angelicisi]

 

[Ron Skekel]

I made my own dirt the 1st two years, now I make compost and dump it in the gardens in fall with leaf mould bags, it makes dirt too Only bought 4-5 bags of premium so over the last few years. I also look for free dirt on craigslist and often its spent garden soil! Perfect because I have creatures! I can add poo and compost and all sorts of things to make it amazing again.

For dirt to fill 3 to 5 temporary raised beds (depending on size)

I Buy one bag of great soil, fluffy-high in nutes. One large bag of sand, coarse. Add clay chucks from the ground on the property broken up (about 5 of those same size bags worth. I dump loads of rabbit waste into it, about half a bag of chicken old bedding, and a bag of leaves from the yard. I turn this and turn this and then plop in my make shift raised beds (pallets), plant my lettuces, broccoli , cabbage, chards, mustard greens in them and have a instant garden.

The mix I use makes 4 pallet gardens on ground or 6 pallet gardens upright.

For ground beds
I bring them to the spot I want my veggies. I pull every other board out, use the board I pulled on the bottom for the gap below it and fill them well with dirt. Line my seeds and done.

Upright beds I used for herbs. Propped pallets against wall. Pulled every other board out and nailed it to the bottom of board below it forming a long box, dump dirt in and plant.

They last one season on the ground sometimes 2 and 2 or 3 seasons upright. They wood does deteriorate but there's plenty of time to get a few crops in.

I've seen vertigcal growing in catalogs not cheep. I have thought of trying pallets Ron always has some from bricks . I've seem them for free on hwy 59.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Good article in Garden and Greenhouse magazine on catnip! Says it repels mosquitoes better than DEET and also roaches!

btw, subscription to this magazine is FREE or you can read it online:

http://www.gardenandgreenhouse.net/...-greenhouse/march-2014/1723-the-joy-of-catnip

 

[kuntrygirl]

Score! Another one bites the dust ...

Good morning Peeps. It was a cold night last night. So cold that a little nuisance decided to visit me and ate a few chicken eggs. Needless to say, he never made it back home.

It took about 5 shots before he finally fell and didn't move. He was determined to get back home.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Morning peeps! Good shot Julie! I have to start setting our live trap again -- I think they are starting to snoop around. 'Tiz the season.

Happy Mardi Gras! We are all wearing our beads at work today. The "Cheerleaders and Antique Car" parade kicks off at 4:30 right in front of our building so we get to go watch & catch beads. Next year I plan to put our 1930 Model A Ford in the parade!

All 18 of my tomato plants are up this morning & putting on their first set of leaves. I hope this is a bumper year for my garden. I'm planting tomatoes, cukes, two kinds of pole beans (rattlesnake and purple pod), maybe some eggplant and zucchini and two kinds of peppers (bell & some New Mexico Hatch chilis a balloonist we know who lives in Albuquerque gave us) & maybe some canteloupe.

We're going to re-establish our defunct asparagus patch and also put in some strawberries. And it's time to get my herbs started back up.

I'm ready for the time change!

Thanks. I may have to think about a few live traps as well. He was a big one. If he has family, they will be back.

Good job on the plants.

 

[kuntrygirl]

ok, so I started my first batch of FERMENTED FEED!  I am so excited to have our feed costs go down some....  since i will need to hatch about 100 for us alone this year.

OOO  OOO  OOO  and I got my 3rd order for chicks!  This time they want 50!  So this is getting more and more fun!

Congrats on the FF.

 

[Ron Skekel]

ok, so I started my first batch of FERMENTED FEED!  I am so excited to have our feed costs go down some....  since i will need to hatch about 100 for us alone this year.

OOO  OOO  OOO  and I got my 3rd order for chicks!  This time they want 50!  So this is getting more and more fun!

Here is pics of my gold laced Wyandottes . They weren't cooperating . But you can see the color.

 

[LemonMeringue]

I keep seeing bags of compost, potting soil and organic fertilizer that says, "POOP FREE!"

What the What?????? So is this for vegans or people that are just afraid of poop??? I just find this weirder than weird. I put the composted poop in my garden on purpose! Lol!

I saw these products a TSC and Target.

 

[LemonMeringue]

Here is pics of my gold laced Wyandottes . They weren't cooperating . But you can see the color.


Wow Pam, she sure is pretty!!!