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Woo-hoo! Baby goats on Benjamin's birthday!!
I love watching you all so much.
Ben is so cute and such a farm boy now but will be a farm man, I think.
Woven ground cover dies not kill things with traveling roots! Their roots get water and they just keep growing along under the cover until they find light. It was disastrous for my backyard with morning glory.
I wish I could pay the fee or membership to watch wilder still but doing good to try n just have the basics
I too am frost sensitive and, because I live in Michigan, I am pretty much cold 4-5 months out of the year. Luckily we've had a nice fall. Our 1st frost is usually around the 1st of October and it has not happened yet and may not happen for a couple more weeks which is crazy for here. I love your little garden up by the house. It's so pretty. You two will have a beautiful homestead in no time!
Do I still on time for fall garden?
I Live in Texas
The only live stock I have is chickens and a dog here in NH. My chickens free roam all year even in the snow and sub zero weather; my dog on the other hand does not like cold wind, rain or snow. go figure
excited for piglets!
My sister has had this new kind of grass come up in her beds that is really, really hard to get rid of. The stems are braided, like garlic (she previously had onions in the bed), and they send these tubers down under ground, which will sprout a whole new tuft of grass. Sometimes when you pull one out, it will pull another tuft of grass out through the ground, which is bizarre to me. It's super invasive, and super hard to get rid of because all the tubers connect to more roots. I'm also, apparently, allergic to it. Anytime it touches me I break out in a rash and welts. We spent hours weeding that bed, and eventually gave up because we just kept finding more roots connected to more tubers the further down we dug. At this point, we'd probably have to empty the bed and sift through the entire thing, or just continue weeding throughout the year.
Love you and your family Jess love peace joy and many blessings to you all! Ben is adorable
Jess, the fabric is only for one season. You can roll it up and move it in the spring to a new spot for other plants with the same spacing.
It's a fast easy way to get you through this winter and buy you more time to prep your soil the way you want. It also helps keep your soil warm when it gets cold so that might buy you more time too.
You can also recycle it in smaller pieces for problem areas with spotty weed pressure or under produce to keep it clean- like pumpkins and melons. So you can really get your money's worth and not feel like you're cheating 😉
How old should the chicken be to be harvested?
That fence is fantastic. I'm more inclined now to do the same.
How great they can't get through as wee wees. They won't learn they can and then can't thus getting stuck. I'm assuming here…. even with pulsating… a st k bird getting pulsed add a bit of fright would still end in death. Yes a very good fence.
A 101 chickmations.
Florence, Alabama….love it there! Much time spent there as my daughter was in college there for four years! It's a beautiful city!
Pardon my ignorance regarding the weather…but i had no idea you get that cold there? We here in the north are dipping down to 5 Celsius here already.
I love seeing the farm through your son Ben's eyes and seeing the delight he gets from farm life.
I was a country girl once upon a time.
Bennie stole the show!! What a cutie pie!!! You will have the bestest farm birthday ever with your baby goaties. ❤❤
Your sweet husband is being so patient. LOL!
Hey, so I want to tell you about a place where I get my garden bed soil from. It is in beech island, SC. I do not know how far you are from them, but they do deliver. It is called Bricko farms. They have a nursery blend, which is what I use. I have had wonderful results. They have a website. Thought it might be worth a look for you.
If your pigs are gentle, when they are laying down you can scratch their belly and they will grunt as if calling her piglets and really enjoy it. You can also try milking a teet. If milk squirts you are within just a few days or maybe even a few hours of birth.
(Pam here….). Could almost put temp clear tarp over your front kitchen garden to protect your babies! That is a great frame Miah built that you can use…
New sticker! "I am a frost tender flower"
Jess, you definitely have my sympathies: I, too, am not very frost-tolerant.
Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait… why didn't you do… um.
Wait, let me think how I want to say this…
One thing I learned from PRAXXUS55712 channel is it doesn't hurt at all to fill up a raised-bed with a pile of grass clippings.
SO… (I know it's too late for this round.)
The NEXT TIME you have a set of raised-beds to fill, I recommend y'all jump in your tractor and scoop up a few big bucket-fulls of that top-soil you scraped off (at the Shop site), dump that in the bottom of your new raised-beds, then scoop up a few buckets of regular farm soil from other parts of the property (near the tree-line would be good), then top those beds with the bagged compost and bagged top-soil and worm-castings for planting in.
Those bits of grass in the top-soil will indeed break down, over time, sinking the soil level down a bit, so you'll have to fill in with more compost and more top-soil and worm-castings, etc. (really, that's just a good opportunity right there), but all that scraped top-soil will end up being more than just good fill… it'll be good Soil for your tomato roots and carrots to grow down into.
It will become GREAT Soil, full of microbes and worms, oh my.
You can do this with grass clippings, too. This is a great way to fill tall raised-beds, such as those VEGO garden beds.
Is it better to compost them first? Yeah, it is… but is it absolutely necessary? Nope. Compost happens. In the ground or on top of it… the grass clippings will break down (will be broken down by worms and microbes) and become SOIL.
WHAT YOU GROW IN will just be the top layers anyway… right? This is why the grass goes in the bottom… then bulk dirt/soil in the middle-layers… then mixed compost/topsoil for the top planting layers.
This way you can use what you have (in abundance) and quit buying more bagged material for anything other that the topsoil planting layers.
(I sincerely hope this gets to you before you start filling the raised-beds around the front and sides of the house. I hope to see you using your scraped top-soil to fill those garden beds. That will be Good Content. I think.)
I'm kinda looking forward to seeing how long your Fall/Winter growing Season will last in the new property. I have a feeling you're going to be A Busy Girl much longer than you're used to. I also think it will be very nice not having to worry about piglets or baby goats dying from the cold. Happy Trails!