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Raised beds
Badger:
I got lucky and found an old building comming down and they sold me all the old 2x12x12' timbers. Composting can be just as addcitive as bow making. I would drive around in my pick up and have gardeners dump all their lwan shavings. I found at the beach the tractors would rake up the sea weed couple times a week and it was easy to get a pick up load full of sea weed. Duck farm was near by and provided a great place for duck manure. Cedar shavings from a shudder factory near by and I had all I could handle. Gardening is really fun and rewarding, raised beds even make it more pleasurable. Steve
Grunt:
I've got 150 lbs of composted turkey manure coming. Three 50 lb bags for $17 bucks each. Ought to keep my eight raised beds, sixty foot asparagus row, spice bed, blueberries, raspberries, and my other's assorted wild flowers happy. Rebuilt my two raised bed cold frame tops in the past two days. Our seed order came last week. Up here at 3500 ft in the NC mountains it's all about soil temperature.
mullet:
Steve, I used to love using sea weed when I lived on the coast.
Justin Snyder:
--- Quote from: Grunt on March 15, 2010, 07:57:48 pm --- Up here at 3500 ft in the NC mountains it's all about soil temperature.
--- End quote ---
That sounds funny to me. We consider anything under 6000 a low elevation.
Steve, you are right about gardening, it is therapy for me. Beside the therapy, I should have peppers and tomatoes to eat by mid April and squash by the end, I can hardly wait.
Badger:
The sea weed is good stuff, I would run it over with my lawn mower and chop it up pretty good then let it sit out for at least one day befor I mixed it in the compost. Has all kinds of trace meinerals and heavy in nitogen. Steve
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