Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

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Re: Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

Post by Hastur » Fri May 01, 2020 1:50 am

Hanarchy Montanarchy wrote:
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Daddy Warbucks over here, too good for beans.
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Re: Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

Post by SuburbanFarmer » Fri May 01, 2020 12:26 pm

C-Mag wrote:
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50 lbs of seed potatoes...……….. You're going full on Irish sustenance there.

Tell me about Blood meal. What is your application rate, how do you use it ?
It’s dried blood from the slaughterhouse, and very high in nitrogen. That, and alkalinity have been my bane in this garden. Too much damn clay, and I’d have to mix in a dump truck of soil to really fix it.
I’ve been working it for about 5 years, and it’s improving slowly.

I worked out that I’ve got roughly 5,000 sq ft of garden, so that came to 100lbs of it. Planning to just spread it out along with the compost before I till.
Cool. I might give it a try.

I got my tiller for my tractor. Did a little work on it so I could use it this Spring, but the price was right.
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Re: Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

Post by SuburbanFarmer » Fri May 01, 2020 12:28 pm

Dude fuck beans, they’re useless. Green beans are as far as I go, and they have to be picked early.
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Re: Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

Post by C-Mag » Sat May 02, 2020 11:31 am

What are you planting in that 5000 sf ?
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Re: Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

Post by SuburbanFarmer » Sat May 02, 2020 11:58 am

C-Mag wrote:
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What are you planting in that 5000 acres ?
Potatoes, carrots, onions, pumpkins, lettuce, peppers, and green beans.

Winter wheat is finally taking off, it’ll be a shame to plow it all under, but hopefully it did it’s job and loosened up the soil some more. I spread my composted manure today, and realized that I need about 3x more of it to make an impact. Neighbors are already complaining of the smell tho. #ClaySucks

Personally, I like it. Reminds me of Texas.
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Re: Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

Post by TheReal_ND » Sat May 02, 2020 2:11 pm

SuburbanFarmer wrote:
Sat May 02, 2020 11:58 am
C-Mag wrote:
Sat May 02, 2020 11:31 am
What are you planting in that 5000 acres ?
Potatoes, carrots, onions, pumpkins, lettuce, peppers, and green beans.

Winter wheat is finally taking off, it’ll be a shame to plow it all under, but hopefully it did it’s job and loosened up the soil some more. I spread my composted manure today, and realized that I need about 3x more of it to make an impact. Neighbors are already complaining of the smell tho. #ClaySucks

Personally, I like it. Reminds me of Texas.
My grandpa said it smells like perfume and would joke that he dabs it behind his ears.

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Re: Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

Post by Hastur » Sun May 03, 2020 12:02 am

SuburbanFarmer wrote:
Sat May 02, 2020 11:58 am
C-Mag wrote:
Sat May 02, 2020 11:31 am
What are you planting in that 5000 acres ?
Potatoes, carrots, onions, pumpkins, lettuce, peppers, and green beans.

Winter wheat is finally taking off, it’ll be a shame to plow it all under, but hopefully it did it’s job and loosened up the soil some more. I spread my composted manure today, and realized that I need about 3x more of it to make an impact. Neighbors are already complaining of the smell tho. #ClaySucks

Personally, I like it. Reminds me of Texas.
Have you tried No dig gardening? It’s supposed to work well with clay.
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Re: Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

Post by SuburbanFarmer » Sun May 03, 2020 7:21 am

Hastur wrote:
Sun May 03, 2020 12:02 am
SuburbanFarmer wrote:
Sat May 02, 2020 11:58 am
C-Mag wrote:
Sat May 02, 2020 11:31 am
What are you planting in that 5000 acres ?
Potatoes, carrots, onions, pumpkins, lettuce, peppers, and green beans.

Winter wheat is finally taking off, it’ll be a shame to plow it all under, but hopefully it did it’s job and loosened up the soil some more. I spread my composted manure today, and realized that I need about 3x more of it to make an impact. Neighbors are already complaining of the smell tho. #ClaySucks

Personally, I like it. Reminds me of Texas.
Have you tried No dig gardening? It’s supposed to work well with clay.
The gardens a bit large for that :)

Adding 6” of compost to 5000sqft would be 2500cuft of material. I just added 30cuft and the neighbors don’t like it lol. That’s like 3-4 dump trucks worth.
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Re: Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

Post by C-Mag » Sun May 03, 2020 7:56 am

I have the opposite problem, sandy gravel soils.

I just found a source for old hay, and I'm adding a foot to my garden. Pretty easy to handle.

Reportedly works well with clay soils too
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Re: Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

Post by SuburbanFarmer » Sun May 03, 2020 8:09 am

C-Mag wrote:
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I have the opposite problem, sandy gravel soils.

I just found a source for old hay, and I'm adding a foot to my garden. Pretty easy to handle.

Reportedly works well with clay soils too
Yeah we typically add 10 bales of straw or so after planting, for weed control. It’s completely disappeared by the next year.

Haven’t really considered hay, but there’s quite a bit of grass out there by now. It all gets tilled back in each spring.
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