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How to handle the winter time blues
Timo:
Grunt, gonna turn all my stuff into raised beds this year. What are your frames made from?
Did you just fill with mother earth,or something sterile?
Pat B:
We grow shiitaki mushrooms also. Have for about 10 years. Need to start new logs this year probably.
We also pot up our lemon grass to overwinter in the house. Dog and cat love to eat it. Have blueberries also. Haven't had good luck with other fruit trees for some reason. Grow tomatoes, peppers, squash, cukes and a few other vegs and lots of cut flowers.
DanaM:
I also have a garden its only about 12' by 30' but don't have a big yard, stuff like peppers and tomaters I buy bedding plants from the local greenhouse
summer is to short to start from seed. Going to plant collards this year I'm going to be the only Yooper to grow it, heck you can't even buy collard seed up here :o
As for winter you have to get out and enjoy or it will drive ya crazy, we cross country ski, shovel snow, ice fish, shovel snow, snowshoe, shovel snow :D
Also winter is the time I make bows and stuff
Grunt:
--- Quote from: Timo on February 09, 2010, 12:16:10 am ---Grunt, gonna turn all my stuff into raised beds this year. What are your frames made from?
Did you just fill with mother earth,or something sterile?
--- End quote ---
Timo, The saw mills around here are loaded with hemlock right now. The reason is the woolly aldebid is killing all the hemlocks and folks are cutting them and selling them to sawmills. I had cedar 1x6's for 15years replaced the cedar last year with rough sawn hemlock . Hemlock will not rot in contact with the ground. I bought several 12' hemlock 1"x6" for $3.00 each. Stay away from pressure treated. I just double dug and added compost and lime and manure. Takes a couple of years to get the beds working.
Timo:
Grunt, got a buddy with a mill that sold me that he will cut me some 2x8 red cedar. Should last a few years. Was gonna use osage, but just can't bring myself to laying it in the ground! ha
Staying away from anything treated. >:D
Planned on dbl dig with manure. We will see. Thanks.
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