TJAnonymous
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I miss the monarch butterflies of my childhood.... No milkweed here. It's toxic to horses...
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I joined a wine club.Okay, I have a spinning kind. We’re good… except I don’t have wine. I keep forgetting to put it in my cart when loading up with $200+ of liquor.
I've always wanted to try a hugelkultur bed, especially since we get a lot of rotting limbs from the trees around the house. But with lumber prices so high, we opted not to build more raised beds this year so I never got around to it.
Bread is not all that good for the chickens or even wild birds.
You've convinced me, I now intend to raise the beds higher and fill the bottoms with large pieces of wood. This will take a while since the current beds are practically new but the climate has and is changing and this area is simply not as wet as it used to be. And as we get older, higher beds will be helpfull.
Yeah, I have several raised beds made from corrugated roofing.I understand. I wanted to build some new wood raised beds in our backyard by the chicken coop this year, but the lumber prices were too high. I modified my plans and made raised beds using galvanized sheet metal for the sides. This saved me lots of money. There are a number of YouTube videos on metal raised beds, here is one that might be of interest to you.
Some modifications I used: I made my metal raised beds 4X4 feet. I cut the metal panel in half height, so my raised beds are 16 inches tall. I filled the bottom ~10 inches with old logs, wood chips, and whatever organic material I had on hand to throw in there. Then I topped of the bed with ~6-8 inches of good topsoil and chicken run compost mixed 1:1. I used 4X4 inch posts for the 4 corners and just used some old 2X4's for the wooden frames around the sides. I screwed everything together with pocket hole screws. The metal panels were screwed into the wood frames.
Here is a (partial) picture of one of the metal panel raised beds I built. This year, I save a lot of money by using the metal panel instead of going all wood.
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DillAre you raising fennel or milkweed or something for them?
The "rule" I go by is to plant the biggest cloves for the next year's harvest. Eat the smaller ones.I'm probably just going to take a clove from this year's harvest and plant it.
That's our plan for hubby too. 59 1/2 and a day. We are counting down now; less than a year! If we can swing it earlier than that, we will.I am retiring at 59 1/2 - you can't make me work a day longer than that! I don't care if I have to live in a box under a bridge. I won't do it. 59 1/2 is it. THAT'S ALL THEY'LL GET FROM ME!