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Date: April 12, 2017 at 11:23:34
From: Leslie, [DNS_Address]
Subject: It's garden time ! |
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Getting beds ready and plants started and some actually in under hoops and doing fine. Cool weather plants will grow just fine now days and if you have freezing yet like I do, it was down to 18 Sunday into Monday, the hoops provide good protection. I do put jugs of water in between the plants to help hold the heat. I may loose a few but most are making it so I am harvesting radish, lettuce, spinach, assorted salad greens, and beet leaves. The beets will be ready in a couple more weeks and by then I should be able to get other plants out under the hoops in other beds with the tomatoes most likely in mid-May.
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Date: April 12, 2017 at 14:43:04
From: Leslie, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's garden time ! |
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Forgot to mention that potatoes are in and also onions with some I missed in the old bed coming up now and little spikes in the new beds. Potatoes will be a few more days before they get brave enough to poke their heads up.
Russet, Yukon Gold, Red potatoes and Adirondack Blue are in the ground this year. All organic stock from years before except the Blue which I got this year to try as I have not grown them for over 40 years when I lived back around those mountains to the east.
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Date: April 13, 2017 at 10:42:46
From: sheila, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's garden time ! |
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hubby just called, said he could get enough 2X10 pieces of wood to make 2 raised beds that would be 4ft by 8 ft for 50 bucks! That would at least be enough raised beds to get our vegie garden started in our new, huge backyard. I have onion sets, fingerling potatoes, all sorts of vegie seeds awaiting a new home.
Only problem here in Oregon is all that darned rain and cold temps. Don't mind the cold but can't garden in pouring rain. It's going to be a late season this year and am not going to do very many tomato plants since we can get heritage tomatoes for 50 cents a lb. from a grower in Mt. Angel, a town nearby.
String beans, lots of onions (getting pricey in stores) and everything else I can fit in!
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Date: April 13, 2017 at 12:29:42
From: Mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's garden time ! |
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Would those strawbale beds help?
The rain would help keep them moist and
Not combustible....
Not this year for me, I'll fight the
Bunny wars with chicken wire.
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Date: April 15, 2017 at 10:28:40
From: sheila, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's garden time ! |
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hi Mitra, once we get the raised beds built, I'll order up a load or 2 of garden soil to fill them and hoping it won't cost too much. Straw bale gardens are great for desert gardens, the Israelis used to use them to build gardens in dry areas as I remember reading. Here in Oregon, the trick is to get enough compost into the soil to loosen it up so it doesn't get compacted by all this rain.
You must have a problem with rabbits? I've done squirrel wars before but so far, no rabbits - yet!
Hoping to get a few chickens along the way, love home grown eggs, they taste so much better than store bought.
Happy trails, Sheila
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Date: April 16, 2017 at 05:37:32
From: Mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's garden time ! |
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I worked the numbers on chickens,
With feed and store bought coop
You break even in less than a year
counting organic eggs. Also,
depending on the quality of feed
you can get the flavor of eggs
You like. Such a deal.
I don't mind the bunnies, but I
like my rainbow chard as much as
they Do!
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Date: April 17, 2017 at 00:37:27
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's garden time ! |
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plus the bonus...chickenshit! and if you let them run around a fenced in garden they eat all the snails before they croos the fenceline...plus, they're just cool...(they'll eat all your kitchen waste too...even eggshells...)
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Date: April 23, 2017 at 14:53:43
From: Mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Round and round - isn't Nature wonderful? |
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Imagine if we had understood
what we produce had to be used
as food for something. A
systems instead of economic
model.
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Date: May 03, 2017 at 17:08:44
From: chaskuchar@nebr, [DNS_Address]
Subject: folks existed for thousands of years doing that. |
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and we still could. we don't need humongous tractors that drink thousands of gallons of diesel. we need small farms with folks keeping busy. Nebraska was founded that was with a family to a quarter section of land and folks were happy doing that. sad to say I was a part of farmers going crazy and buying lots of land... I think I could still live on my 90 acres if I gave up a few benefits instead... chas
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Date: April 16, 2017 at 10:32:28
From: sheila, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's garden time ! |
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ha, yeah, know the feeling about rainbow chard. Last year, I bought a 6 pack of rainbow chard, planted them all in a container up high where the critters couldn't get to them. Much to my surprise, they flourished and I had chard throughout most of the winter. There's still 2 plants left in that container so try that, see if it works. Any sort of table, shelving, whatever will do for getting plants you love out of bunny's reach.
Before we moved, we bought eggs from our next door neighbors. She fed them really great feed, her own mixture and the eggs were the best ever.
Not sure where to buy the chickens but craigslist usually has some for sale. Or I can buy chicks and raise them myself, have done that several times before way back when. The Mexicans feed their chickens marigold flowers, makes the yolks very orange/yellow!
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Date: April 16, 2017 at 17:46:15
From: Mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's garden time ! |
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I was going to plant marigold around
the garden, feeding it to chickens is
a great idea. Old pioneers liked the
barred chickens, but I'm aways from
having the coop and yard ready. Good
luck on finding a good flock!
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Date: April 12, 2017 at 23:13:57
From: kemokae, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: It's garden time ! |
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Nice to hear from you Leslie and know your still out and about doing your usual things of the season.
I've been watching the shows late at night on survival. I think Sarah Palin got me into Alaska adnd then some, but doubt she lives an survival mode like the frontier people do. The
Alaskan Bush people are the newest to arrive up there, JohnL and I have been discussing them. Yes, he's into racket ball and not bears...might be an good thing. I have been hearing quite a bit about the bears up there and I wonder If Russia has such problems with them. Tonight was an learning episode. This man wants to trap over winter and he has an second cabin he went to check on for an weather retreat while trapping...and indeed an bear got into kind of...left an big fingernail mark in the ceiling which leaked since he was last there. But he mentioned tonight how bears
are so unusual because they destroy everything they get
their hands on...in this case an skidoo left at the cabin, it had done something to the ski on one side to be different and he said he'd have to call someone in to see what was damaged. They all carry rifles and side guns in Alaska for protection...mostly from the bears. It's an very serious necessity to life. But also watched tow others tonight building new log cabins, and you know how they have nitching between the logs...not this cabin so far, with his chain saw he made of stack of logs fall over the bottom stack in
an perfect log to log layer, fitting with out the need
to put the gooey stuff between layers...using his chain saw. Looks really nice and he[s not the only one
either and second kid up there built his cabin with now windows...just an very heavy log door. Toward the top they might have an thin nitch of light peeking through of heavy glass under the roof...but the walls
are really up high also. I see whre the bears will apparently even traverse the roofs to tear them to pieces if they get the chance also....so I feel realitively safe in saying that the "Bush People" need to put up an 20 foot high "stockade wall, with an closing door to it to keep the bears out, and they really trashed it the last time they broke in.....and they resortd like most people do if they can get solar panels to provide them electricity to electrocute them
away from breaking in the sides of the walls. With th eBush People they had used heavy wooden planks and the bear tore in it like it's long nails were the soda pop
opener to an drink. Pop,pop the planks were off the side of the building in no time. So you think only Alaskans are dealing with this problem, show "Off GRid"
these people built an fancy "yurt" two stories high...
upper story had decking around the outside...to that he
added and stell wire fence and hooked it t Solar Panels
and on the botton ground with it's upteen pols set in cement they were wired for electricity also...this yurt
was built on the edge of the Rocky Mountains....off Grid. They most always have lofts in these cabins to sleep at where if any animals do break in they can shoot them with their rifles. Most all of them have big dogs also....Huskies/German Shepards. Ok, this versus some of the information in historical stories, and many of them are usually quite dramatic...like the Riley's on Ohio. Here we find they built an hasty retreat to live in over winter with cracks between the
logs far enough apart, they could shoot out between them an the wolves in the area. I find that real hard to accept...and also, their animals meant their survival...you can bet they had an place for the animals inside with them somewhere. I don't know about the one in Ohio, but the one in Illinois was an brick layer from am message he left in an house he built
inside the wall. Something that caught my eye tonight was they just don't have to have their winter meat before it starts snowing, but they also have to have caught their Salmon for over winter cause everthing freezes up...also their geese/ducks and anything else they can make into jerky If possible....such as deer and moose. I have been watching Sue Akins take advantage of the "midnight sun" in 24 hour light for an green house she's growing....which she still heats with an small wood stove. But she has an interesting kind of self-watering thing going also...with PVC piping having rounds in it cut out to insert her herbals and greens in small pots through out several months time. She can water from underneath the small pots with very little water useage....and recycle the water. She uses barrels with straw and an organic dirt topping in it for her potatoes....keeps adding to it as they grow. To bad you couldn't take an tour...but it's pretty much airplane in and airplane out getting there and back. Many of those areas are like that and of course they are sparse communications once winter hits the area...except for Ham Radio's. Will be looking forward to seeing the Bush people next season, they ended the season this year with their own windmill generated electricity. No doubt an great help to them also...now they can light up their yards to see where to take pot shots at those bears....so far they been using flare guns...fireworks.
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Date: April 13, 2017 at 07:36:17
From: chaskuchar@nebr, [DNS_Address]
Subject: i am small gardening this year. |
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have to keep my thoughts on mary and the garden is in second place. I am planting peas today. moved some shallots from the sets coming up from last year. chas
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Date: April 13, 2017 at 09:05:09
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: i am small gardening this year. |
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Wishing i had space for a garden...when this company of Mike's
takes off we will get a home out side of this senior moble home park!
Hopefully with 1/2 -to an acher of land to do with as we wish. Time
will tell all. God's will is in place for all of us, DAILY! Kat
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