The Endzone Garden Thread

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I wish I had tge know how to do chow chow, and tomato soup
 
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well Exie, we close on the new place next week. I'm thinking about compost piles, card board and renting a sod cutter to make the patches. Also, thinking about landscaping timbers as edging. I figure you can add 8' sections and then start raising the beds as needed. Thoughts?
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
well Exie, we close on the new place next week. I'm thinking about compost piles, card board and renting a sod cutter to make the patches. Also, thinking about landscaping timbers as edging. I figure you can add 8' sections and then start raising the beds as needed. Thoughts?
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Where u moving to
 
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VolNExile said:
Only if you tell me about your farm or garden or whatever it is!
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I have 6 and a half acres mostly wooded with hard woods. Approximately an acre and a half cleared around my home. I have a sixteen by twenty shed with a 12'×20' open side shed that half has been made into a hen house. I have a 40' by 25' run on my hen house. I have the run with approximately six to eight inches of wood chips over 3/4's of the run. That is making my compost for the garden.
I have a 80'×50' garden spot with hay and wood chips for a no dig garden on half of it. The other half has had cow manure that we are going to plow in this week Lord willing. We are just going to see which side does better...
I also have two lots for my Holstein milk cow that we recently traded for. She will calve in a few months and will start producing shortly after.
Also we have three small blueberry plants, blackberry plants, two muscadine vines, two Concord grape and two of the white grapes planted last year. We also planted six elder berry trees and two moranga trees as well. I plan on adding some apple and pear trees too.
I have eight adult beagles and five puppies. Two pigs and quail and rabbits as well. Over 100 laying hens and a lot of work to do...😂
I hope that I didn't leave anything out...😁
 
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BigO95 said:
I have 6 and a half acres mostly wooded with hard woods. Approximately an acre and a half cleared around my home. I have a sixteen by twenty she'd with a 12'×20' open side shed that half has been made into a hen house. I have a 40' by 25' run on my hen house. I have the run with approximately six to eight inches of wood chips over 3/4's of the run. That is making my compost for the garden.
I have a 80'×50' garden spot with hay and wood chips for a no dig garden on half of it. The other half has had cow manure that we are going to plow in this week Lord willing. We are just going to see which side does better...
I also have two lots for my Holstein milk cow that we recently traded for. She will calve in a few months and will start producing shortly after.
Also we have three small blueberry plants, blackberry plants, two muscadine vines, two Concord grape and two of the white grapes planted last year. We also planted six elder berry trees and two moranga trees as well. I plan on adding some apple and pear trees too.
I have eight adult beagles and five puppies. Two pigs and quail and rabbits as well. Over 100 laying hens and a lot of work to do...😂
I hope that I didn't leave anything out...😁
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Way too long
 
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BigO95 said:
I have 6 and a half acres mostly wooded with hard woods. Approximately an acre and a half cleared around my home. I have a sixteen by twenty she'd with a 12'×20' open side shed that half has been made into a hen house. I have a 40' by 25' run on my hen house. I have the run with approximately six to eight inches of wood chips over 3/4's of the run. That is making my compost for the garden.
I have a 80'×50' garden spot with hay and wood chips for a no dig garden on half of it. The other half has had cow manure that we are going to plow in this week Lord willing. We are just going to see which side does better...
I also have two lots for my Holstein milk cow that we recently traded for. She will calve in a few months and will start producing shortly after.
Also we have three small blueberry plants, blackberry plants, two muscadine vines, two Concord grape and two of the white grapes planted last year. We also planted six elder berry trees and two moranga trees as well. I plan on adding some apple and pear trees too.
I have eight adult beagles and five puppies. Two pigs and quail and rabbits as well. Over 100 laying hens and a lot of work to do...😂
I hope that I didn't leave anything out...😁
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Sounds like heaven! Maybe not quite so many hens, ha ha. How long have you lived there?

I’m jealous of your chicken composting machine. I watched a great video from a college in Arkansas (?) that had monster chicken-tractors-on-steroids starting the initial restoration of run-down pastures. Scratching and pooping, pooping and scratching.

Did you grow up in the country, or are you learning all this the hard way?
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
well Exie, we close on the new place next week. I'm thinking about compost piles, card board and renting a sod cutter to make the patches. Also, thinking about landscaping timbers as edging. I figure you can add 8' sections and then start raising the beds as needed. Thoughts?
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What are you planting on the cardboard? Supposedly, you don’t even need to have edging if you leave a six-inch border of exposed cardboard. We’re trying this this year, although my back would greatly prefer raised beds.

I can see landscape timbers, although the last time we used them, many Really Bad Words were loosed on the universe as we tried to stack them and keep them stacked. And upright. A nail gun would have helped. But if that had been solved, it sounds like a good way of gradually increasing the height of the beds. Hmmm.
 
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We have been here for two years now. I grew up on 11 acres with pigs and dogs and chickens and hogs. The cow and rabbits and quail are new to me though. I figured if others can do it I can too...😁
We really enjoy our little homestead. To us it's a wonderful Life. I just wish I'd had picked a little bit flatter ground...😂 Hopefully we can get a barn built and our pasture cleared soon. We have much to do and little time to work on it. Sometimes I have to work a lot of overtime. Not complaining, just explaining. Between work and ministry and farming, there isn't enough hours in the day.
 
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BigO95 said:
We have been here for two years now. I grew up on 11 acres with pigs and dogs and chickens and hogs. The cow and rabbits and quail are new to me though. I figured if others can do it I can too...😁
We really enjoy our little homestead. To us it's a wonderful Life. I just wish I'd had picked a little bit flatter ground...😂 Hopefully we can get a barn built and our pasture cleared soon. We have much to do and little time to work on it. Sometimes I have to work a lot of overtime. Not complaining, just explaining. Between work and ministry and farming, there isn't enough hours in the day.
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Was it a ketchup farm?
 
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BigO95 said:
We have been here for two years now. I grew up on 11 acres with pigs and dogs and chickens and hogs. The cow and rabbits and quail are new to me though. I figured if others can do it I can too...😁
We really enjoy our little homestead. To us it's a wonderful Life. I just wish I'd had picked a little bit flatter ground...😂 Hopefully we can get a barn built and our pasture cleared soon. We have much to do and little time to work on it. Sometimes I have to work a lot of overtime. Not complaining, just explaining. Between work and ministry and farming, there isn't enough hours in the day.
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I was going to say that it keeps you out of trouble, and yet, here you are!

—That’s great, though. I really admire people who jump into something like that.

As opposed to our 0.15 acre of happiness! 🤪
 
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VolNExile said:
What are you planting on the cardboard? Supposedly, you don’t even need to have edging if you leave a six-inch border of exposed cardboard. We’re trying this this year, although my back would greatly prefer raised beds.

I can see landscape timbers, although the last time we used them, many Really Bad Words were loosed on the universe as we tried to stack them and keep them stacked. And upright. A nail gun would have helped. But if that had been solved, it sounds like a good way of gradually increasing the height of the beds. Hmmm.
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I was thinking a spade bit and maybe some scrap/salvaged rebar? I was the landscaping timber king in FL.
 
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VolNExile said:
I was going to say that it keeps you out of trouble, and yet, here you are!

—That’s great, though. I really admire people who jump into something like that.

As opposed to out 0.15 acre of happiness! 🤪
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Home is where the family is! Anywhere the wife and kids are and the good Lord, it's home and happy at that. No matter what material things I have or don't have. The less you have, the less you have to take care of...😁
 
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