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Alpaca manure -it's like Miracle-Gro on steroids. Usually there are a few places on Craigslist that give it away for free, typically in Castle Rock area. I've brought 3,000#s of it to Boulder with multiple trips in my Jeep.Quote:
Originally Posted by William
That's a good idea. Found a couple places close to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by hatidua
Processed my compost today. I use the system I mentioned on Page 2. I built a screen to sift out the big stuff. Each year it gives me 10, 5 gallon buckets of high quality compost. One advantage of composting on the ground it is literally teaming with worms thousands of them!
I have 3 4x8 raised beds and each gets their share. Then I had to turn them all with the garden fork and rake them relatively flat. All together, about 4 hours of manual labor. I'll sow lettuce and spinach seeds on Monday.
Decided I won't start seeds anymore inside for tomatoes, peppers, etc. I'm just buying seedlings at good garden centers. Not a whole lot more expensive and saves many hours of watering, messing with lights, hardening, etc.
Thinking about adding a 4th bed outside the fence and trying some squash and zucchinis. They take up too much space and I've heard deer don't like them. No big loss if they do get hungry.
I did the same. My neighbor and I split a rototiller rental from Depot. I dug up my compost pile (most of it not even ready), sifted out the driest and least broken down sticks, poured it into my raised bed and went to town with the rototiller. After I was done, I pulled out big stuff again. It still kind of looks like a garbage dump, but I think it will be just fine.
It's been pretty nice weather for you flatlanders. You have to be doing something. :)
Tying all our shit down so it don't blow away.Quote:
Originally Posted by GilpinGuy
Can't till the soil, too dry, wind blows it away.
Just getting started with our first garden this year, since we moved into a bigger place last Summer. There are four, large raised beds in the yard, where I'm going to put the broccoli, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, and lettuce I started inside from seed. There's some lattice with ivy at the bottom near the back patio that I think I'm going to replace with raspberries and strawberries, but I'll start those in hanging baskets on the deck for now.
We also tilled under the large flower beds in the backyard (just irises and such), and planted some fruit trees with some ugly fencing to keep the deer from eating them. I'm going to try to plant some melons and garlic near the trees, but I need to come up with some better fencing to keep the rabbits out of it.
I'm very interested to learn some more about composting, after all the talk in here about it.
Engaging in a war with weeds. I'm very grateful that last years' Devastation of Thistles went so well, but now theres a new weed in town, and it's into everything.
I'm not ready to befriend it yet.
Doing beans, peppers, tomatoes and some other things this year. Weed control has a whole new meaning here. I have resorted to bootleg methods because the learning curve and time to do what we take for granted in the states here in Germany is frustrating at best. Damn moles are even protected and heaven help you if you want to kill anything. I think the rabbits are bigger than the deer here. [panic][Flower]
Doubled depth today, which was much of my afternoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffrey Lebowski
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