Moral Conundrum -- The "Bartering Eggs For Coffee" WILL HAPPEN!

[dangerouschicken]

But YAY your stuff is coming up!

cute fence, too

Are those daylilies on the left? I love those....

OK should be perfect for all warm weather varieties. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, that I mentioned before, have LOTS to choose from. And, you can grow OKRA!

 

[carugoman]

I left WVA almost forty years ago, but I don't recall farmland as steep as depicted in those pictures, bluebirdfarm?

 

[coffeemama]

So is that your yurt? How did you all get so lucky as to rent that piece of heaven? Sometimes I see a farm for rent and I'm tempted to sell my house and rent it! Dh doesn't like the idea of throwing equity down the drain-dunno why

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[dangerouschicken]

Just rent your place. Still have equity AND a place in the country

The yurt belongs to the owners of the property. It's their vacation house.

 

[carugoman]

DC,
In your photos, it appears like you have chicory, purslane and miner's lettuce growing all around your fancy city- girl raised beds? When purslane (portulaca odorfera grows in a garden or a field, that's an excellent indicator that the soil has all the nutrients it needs to grow almost any crop. Purslane will not grow in poor, non -friable soil.

If a person were to take some scrap cardboard, lay this out in rows,5 feet wide by 72-80 feet long; each row separated by 3-4 feet. On this cardboard, a person were to place well amended and friable soil, to a minimum depth of, eighteen inches, in the center of each row, feathering to the edges no less than eight inches; this person would have a countrified, low- cost, alternative to that fancy, dig- in - your- hard- earned- cash- purse; citified version of a raised bed! After a season or few, the cardboard rots, the turf underneath the cardboard rots, thus providing much hard- to- obtain carbon to the soil, while increasing carbon credits. Besides, doesn't this concept help to settle part of the

"Moral Conundrum?"

In actuality, a bed thats 5' wide but is mounded 18" deep in the center has just over 6' of growing surface, from edge to edge of the row. Now think about this...park a stool in the space between rows. One can easily reach the center of each row without crawling about on one's knees and you don't lose valuable space like you do with those boxes, in between on each end, times how many boxes in each row?​

 

[greyfields]

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[bluebirdfarm]

But YAY your stuff is coming up!

cute fence, too Are those daylilies on the left? I love those....

OK should be perfect for all warm weather varieties. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, that I mentioned before, have LOTS to choose from. And, you can grow OKRA!


nope they are missouri primroses, they bloom at night !
thanx , we worked hard on the split rail and i puit chicken wire down at the bottom for critter protection , then i planted 40 sunflowers along the rails , whew !!!!
this year i went nastursium crazy , ha ha at the house i have them everywhere , i love to eat them !!!

I left WVA almost forty years ago, but I don't recall farmland as steep as depicted in those pictures, bluebirdfarm?


our property is over 3000 ft at the top , there is a difference of 1000 feet in elevation from the road entrance to the top. whew!!!!

 

[bluebirdfarm]

LOL caraugo man , you were a lot younger then , maybe

 

[Badgersburrow]

Good lord folks....you all are all so cleaver....I have never gotten so much info... from one forum thread in my life!!!!...I just keep on reading and bookmarking ....and printing notepads,,,,,at this rate....my chickens are going to boot me off the puter....and my plants will trip me with the hose if I start ignoring them any more today

and now I am going to go figure out how to use the camera...and share my home garden....Iam also going to enter my "dilly" girl photo to fugle chicken contest!(although...she is beautiful in my eyes)...crossbilled and all!!

 

[dangerouschicken]

WOW! Glad to help you out, Badger

I really hope people will keep adding to this thread more and more cool stuff. I get so much info from this board, so I know just how you feel.

carugoman, I totally see your point about the space issues. We may rearrange next year, since it is not so much just to pull up stakes, shovel dirt around, what have you. My original intention was to allow space for our wheelbarrow and for my mom, who is disabled, but still likes to garden. I also think that some of the varieties I planted will be spilling over the sides by August, so I wanted to be able to get around them without tripping. As for the purslane, etc. I feed it to the chickens & ducks. I know the soil is fair (we grew in it last year) but it wasn't as rich as I wanted. We didn't spend that much money on this whole thing, in actuality. The cedar boards are cheap out this way and the ammended soil is only $28 a truck load (we only used 2). Anyhow, I love how it is turning out, much more than I would have with cardboard (I think

). It is how I pictured it in my limited gardening brain. You have more experience than I do. I'm still a newbie and will be for some time. I like your ideas, though!