What did you do in the garden today?

[AnnieSantiago]

Back to Eden. There's a great video on the concept developed by Paul Gautschi

http://www.backtoedenfilm.com/

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I use the Back to Eden method. GIANT crops, no watering and very little weeding. No digging up the garden in the spring... I love love LOVE this method!

 

[Pensmaster]

Thanks Lazy Gardener I did look it up. Haven't studied much on it.

Dump run is done and trying to stay cool inside.

 

[Pensmaster]

I use the Back to Eden method. GIANT crops, no watering and very little weeding. No digging up the garden in the spring... I love love LOVE this method![/QUOTE]


Any variety of chips work better than others.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I am going to have to look that Eden up. Just got back inside, went to check the garden. Something is chewing hell out of my bean plants, but at least there are small beans on there. And the peas are finally blooming. Plus another tomato plant has a tomato on it. Watered the flowers, something ate half of one of my New Guinea Impatients last night. If it ate the whole thing, then i would not have to water it twice a day. I am rooting for it, think maybe its a deer. But there are lots of wild rabbits here too. I really need more mulch but still no truck.

 

[Pensmaster]

I think a ground squirrel got to my pumpkin seedlings. Fortunately he didn't eat the whole plant so maybe some will make it. I fed him a special candy bar.

 

[Pensmaster]

I am going to have to look that Eden up. Just got back inside, went to check the garden. Something is chewing hell out of my bean plants, but at least there are small beans on there. And the peas are finally blooming. Plus another tomato plant has a tomato on it. Watered the flowers, something ate half of one of my New Guinea Impatients last night. If it ate the whole thing, then i would not have to water it twice a day. I am rooting for it, think maybe its a deer. But there are lots of wild rabbits here too. I really need more mulch but still no truck.

I'm hoping to get our companies landscapers to hook me up with some bark. Or the tree trimmers

 

[CapricornFarm]

I found out our dog has chipper/ shredder mode. If she gets tired of playing fetch, she gnaws the stick to shreds. I used to worry about it, but so far it has not made her sick.

 

[jvls1942]

today I didn't do much,
took the tiller and went over one of the raised beds to soften it up for planting strawberries.
that didn't go too well. the spot I chose is very dry and hard.
I ended up just re-making the raised bed with the tractor.
I am trying todownsize my chicken flock.
that is not going well , either.
A gal we know dropped off 2 roosters.
then today the same gal went out of the chicken hobby and dropped off 6 laying hens.
anybody need a rooster? FREE ? I have 5 ...

I had to replant my beets. it looks like some are coming up.

I luck out every couple of years when Asplundh trims the trees along all the electric lines. they chip the wood and always need a close place to dump the chips. it doesn't happen every year, so I make a hog of myself and get as many loads as I can.
right now I have about 40 cubic yards of it piled up..
I got it last year. it is rotting up nicely.
there are a lot of uses for wood chips..

...........jiminwisc......

 

[Pensmaster]

As long as it's not the landscaping stakes that hold up your trees. We had a German Sherman pup once broke both holding the tree and ate most of the tree. I'm not really sure where the stakes went. She either ate them or in playing with them threw them over the fence.

Well I'm off to feed and water and grave the heat. Maybe sweep the barn from all the trash removed.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

The best woodchips for gardening with BTE and other kinds of mulching to feed the plants are the ones that break down fastest in the weather. So, like, willow and poplar are best, pine and cedar are worst.