Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

[gtaus]

Considering the time and effort I put into making these jigs and learning how to make the stackable tiers in a different way, I might just build a few more stackable tiers for extras. I think I got the system down now and I have lots of pallet wood to use up.

At the risk of quoting myself, I took my own suggestion and used those jigs to make some more stackable compost bin tiers. I had to clean out some pallet wood from the garage for other projects, so it made sense to make more of these frames.

I completed two more pallet wood stackable compost bins and put them out in the backyard, under some trees out of the way.

I have started dumping excess grass clippings in those bins. Most of my grass clippings get tossed into the chicken run, but right now I have more grass clippings than I need in the run. If you get too much fresh green grass, it will heat up and smell bad. I am mowing a lot this time of year, so it won't hurt to dump some clippings in the new compost bins.

Anyways, the jigs are working pretty well, and I have been learning how to make these stackable tiers faster and faster.

 

[Smokerbill]

I mentioned here a month ago that I was thinking about planting butternut squash seeds in the top of my pallet chicken run compost pile. They are doing great so far, not vining yet but when it the weather gets warmer next month they should start growing fast.

These are supposed to be a bush type butternut squash, but last year the vines ran six feet or so. I plant to train the vines of the two plants in the rear up and over over the pallet sides, and the two plants in front can drape down the front pallet. That is, if they continue growing.

 

[gtaus]

I mentioned here a month ago that I was thinking about planting butternut squash seeds in the top of my pallet chicken run compost pile. They are doing great so far, not vining yet but when it the weather gets warmer next month they should start growing fast.

Thanks for the update. I remember you talking about that.

Those squash look like they are doing just fine. My plants are doing OK, but our nights are still dipping down to the high 40F's to low 50F's. It needs to stay warmer at night before the plants will take off. But I am hopeful we will have a good year.

 

[Smokerbill]

Thanks for the update. I remember you talking about that.

Those squash look like they are doing just fine. My plants are doing OK, but our nights are still dipping down to the high 40F's to low 50F's. It needs to stay warmer at night before the plants will take off. But I am hopeful we will have a good year.

I think that the warmth from below coming from the decomposition of the compost helped keep the plants growing, even in cooler weather.

Back in the day my grandpa used heat from rotting steer manure to keep sweet potatoes warm when growing out the slips in early spring. He buried a layer of fresh manure, topped it with a layer of sand, layed down the sweet potatoes and covered them with more sand. He was growing acres of sweet potatoes at the time.