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If you do use your pond algae in your garden (maybe let it sit out and dry first?) please let me know your results!
My indoor plants are doing well, time to up-pot the tomatoes and luffas. Cabbage and leeks still need a bit more time, but they look good so far. But, my poor little lettuce and spinach I planted in grow boxes outside had just come up this past weekend, and tonight it got down to 30 - I'm scared to go look at them in the morning.
I scored another amazing freebie today - two 8' x 4' packing crates with 1/2" plywood tops and sides, some extra tops and sides from taken-apart crates, and various lengths of 4x4s. The best thing about these is the floors - made of 4x4s and 2x8s, they are probably more solid than the creaky floors in our house! My plan is to attach the two floors together, reinforce and extend the sides higher, use roofing panels we already have lying around, and make a little 8x8 barn to house 2 or 3 small goats. We have a stack of cedar shingles which could make it look really cute - this summer's project! It will be so great to have a few goats, and never have to fight blackberries again!
I never have, but on my local Craigslist Freebies a few days ago, there was a post that caught my eye - they were offering huge bags of aquatic plants for gardens. A group (not sure if it's the state, a local conservation district, or a group of volunteers) goes around to local lakes and ponds clearing out invasive plants such as millefoil, they bag it up in big mesh potato bags, let it dry out for a few days, then give it away. I'm thinking of giving it a try, maybe experiment with one bed first and compost the rest? Or compost it all to be safe, but I imagine aquatics would not spread on land? Seems beneficial like seaweed, without having to rinse the salt out. I think I might text them and try it.
If you do use your pond algae in your garden (maybe let it sit out and dry first?) please let me know your results!
My indoor plants are doing well, time to up-pot the tomatoes and luffas. Cabbage and leeks still need a bit more time, but they look good so far. But, my poor little lettuce and spinach I planted in grow boxes outside had just come up this past weekend, and tonight it got down to 30 - I'm scared to go look at them in the morning.
I scored another amazing freebie today - two 8' x 4' packing crates with 1/2" plywood tops and sides, some extra tops and sides from taken-apart crates, and various lengths of 4x4s. The best thing about these is the floors - made of 4x4s and 2x8s, they are probably more solid than the creaky floors in our house! My plan is to attach the two floors together, reinforce and extend the sides higher, use roofing panels we already have lying around, and make a little 8x8 barn to house 2 or 3 small goats. We have a stack of cedar shingles which could make it look really cute - this summer's project! It will be so great to have a few goats, and never have to fight blackberries again!
