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I need to dig out my chicken run too. There must be 5-6" of stuff there now. I keep bopping my head on the extension cord that is looped into the cross pole of the roof. I'm not getting taller, the floor of the run is getting higher. :gig

Really? Nobody wants your timber? Wow. I would NOT give it away! That's ridiculous. Walnut does make good firewood, but the wood is very "stringy," and hubby stopped trying to split it until we got a wood splitter.

I knew about black walnut, but hadn't thought about the squirrels, of which I have plenty, burying the nuts in the garden. I have found a few nuts when they sprout, but I don't know if they were put there by the squirrels, or just fell in from the tree near the garden. Hubby will NOT entertain...

Us too. I paint the stuff for the chickens, because I want to protect the wood, and a 5 gallon bucket of white paint will last me years. And, they don't care. :)

Oh. I was going to say that I did hugelkultur, sort of, in the flat areas of my sandy soil garden. I dug trenches and buried logs and sticks, then leaves. No real hugel (which means "hill"), but the idea of logs being a water reservoir and decomposing under the plants still applies. If you try...

I have a big gas tiller. I use it in the spring.... sometimes. I used it to break the ground for my heavy soil garden. No way I could turn that by hand, and I don't think a battery powered tiller would have the muscle. Most of the time, the tiller sits in the shed. I named it "The Hun" because...

How do you use the tops?

And they look awesome!

Yes, exactly!

Wow! FWIW... It's worth a lot!

Talking about acidic soil... was there any mention of the actual pH? Blueberries like it really acidic, pH 4.5-5.5; most plants don't like that level of acidity. Most of my soil is at least slightly acidic, in the 6.0-6.5 range. I have my blueberries in a separate area, so I can acidify that as...

For a closure on my "look, don't touch" integration pen, I have used a piece of board, say, half inch thick, 3 inches by "height of fence" tall as the end of the fence. Stapled on, nothing fancy. I screw a couple of cup hooks into it. On permanent side of the enclosure, I make a couple of zip...

As I have said many times, half my chicken run is held together with zip ties! I love those things! They are also what we used to attach the fence to the U-posts around the garden. I didn't use big heavy duty ones, I used the 8" long, fairly light duty kind. I have seen one, singular zip tie...

Yes! I've seen my compost pile steam on a spring morning. Making compost in April makes me feel like I'm gardening before it's time to plant. Well, anything but the tough stuff like lettuce and peas and spinach. And kale. We get a nice sunny day, and I want, actually want to go out and flip my...

https://deepgreenpermaculture.com/2010/05/08/hot-compost-composting-in-18-days/ This might be close enough...? The only caveat is the physical labor involved.

What is it with sandy soil? Some places, it seems like any organic stuff you add "washes" right on through. When I think of my sandy soil garden, and how un-composty it seems, I then think of my friend's garden. Hers looks like beach sand compared to mine. It improved a LOT the year they got a...

Amend the soil you're growing your plants in first, of course. This thought has helped me when I've had daunting tasks: Do the best you can with what you have where you are.

Brilliant! Half of my run is held together with zipties, so why didn't I think of this? Think of the trees in a forest. They constantly get new organic matter on the surface. I think for many things, like asparagus and berry bushes, this could work too. I have my black raspberry plants in a...

This is what she does, and it works very well. She doesn't have a compost bin, per se, so this is what she does instead. Last year, I had a bunch of buckets that I filled with assorted organic debris, then added a couple shovels of dirt on top. I put on the cover, but didn't seal it. In the...

The neighbor who told me about Hugelkultur used to live in Viginia. Or West Virginia. Probably both, because she's lived everywhere. Anyway, the soil was red clay. She started doing just exactly this. By spring, she had some nice, rich soil. Her neighbor thought she'd brought in topsoil. Now...