Posted on 02/03/2012 6:59:49 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners! Red Devil here. JustaDumbBlonde and her husband are on their way up to Montana for a well deserved vacation. She should be able to post the thread from her remote Montana location next week. I am sure she will continue with her plans for a soil structure thread next week. Her Thread subjects are so informative and interesting. Although I have not been real active on the thread, I read each and every post. Y'all have been doing a great job!
I should be able to get some sort of a garden going this year, at our new location in the Marshall, Tx area. Crossed fingers on the garden! Peggy has done a super job of juggling her new job at a Shreveport Wal-Mart with all the running around to find a house, with a nice sized fenced in back yard, and getting the utilities turned on. It has been real hectic and energy draining for her. What a great Wife and partner! I am one lucky guy!
Lets get gardening!
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Nothing wrong with chicken poo.
Fertilizer as the Creator intended.
My Sister just delivered a box of rabbit droppings for my garden.
Beautiful.
Looks teriffic.
Using a nutrient mix or fish droppings?
Thanks
I am hoping it will be tasty. It needs aging and a mellowing out period. It has a tart and tangy cranberry taste at this stage.
Only younguns can drive straight through for 27 hours. WOW!
I remember when we did that, eons ago.
Have fun on the slopes. We don’t do that either, anymore. LOL.
We are not very young but we vowed never to grow up. The trip is not hard the way we do it. They will have to bury me before I quit skiing. There are a few much older than us at the resort. One guy is 85 and he snowboards! There are at least 15 in our group of ski buddies that are near 70 and older.
We are not very young but we vowed never to grow up. The trip is not hard the way we do it. They will have to bury me before I quit skiing. There are a few much older than us at the resort. One guy is 85 and he snowboards! There are at least 15 in our group of ski buddies that are near 70 and older.
It’s fun when the “oldies” get together like skiing. We did that well into our 70s, but with my hip replacement, and hubbies knees, we decided it was time for just pumping iron, and things like that. We were runners and he was a marithoner, including Greece Marathon, now that was an experience, going from Germany to Athens. He finished, but not number one...#3 in his age bracket. Until my hip went sour, I ran about 2/3 miles a day except the weekend. I skied, but would stop and take pictures, he did downhill. I’m the slow one, he loved the wind flying by. Of course in Europe, there were ski lifts to the top, and restaurant “stops” on the way down. Hubby could ski down 3 or 4 times, I’d ski down one with the best restaurants and the “warm glu wein” was wonderful. I’d meet him and friends for lunch and to the top we’d go again, I was always the last one to show up for the get together in the lounge...made all the “glu-wein” stops. I chose those that were not “bonded”. Wonderful hot mulled wines. I don’t think I made it through the various glu-wein menues, though.
It’s fun when the “oldies” get together like skiing. We did that well into our 70s, but with my hip replacement, and hubbies knees, we decided it was time for just pumping iron, and things like that. We were runners and he was a marithoner, including Greece Marathon, now that was an experience, going from Germany to Athens. He finished, but not number one...#3 in his age bracket. Until my hip went sour, I ran about 2/3 miles a day except the weekend. I skied, but would stop and take pictures, he did downhill. I’m the slow one, he loved the wind flying by. Of course in Europe, there were ski lifts to the top, and restaurant “stops” on the way down. Hubby could ski down 3 or 4 times, I’d ski down one with the best restaurants and the “warm glu wein” was wonderful. I’d meet him and friends for lunch and to the top we’d go again, I was always the last one to show up for the get together in the lounge...made all the “glu-wein” stops. I chose those that were not “bonded”. Wonderful hot mulled wines. I don’t think I made it through the various glu-wein menues, though. When I stand before St. Pete, he’s going to take a look and say “ole Girl, I see you’ve tried to do it all?, I’ll answer “yep”.
Loman, are your plants just in water with “the fertilizer”?
You are an eingineer, of course, to put all that contraption together. Are your plants give injections of 10-10-10, liquified? I’m curious. I’m just a beginner.
Sorry for the double. Senio moment?????
>>Loman, are your plants just in water with “the fertilizer”?
Water from the fish-trough (Rubbermaid 100 gallon stock tank) is pumped up through the grow tubes for 5 minutes every half hour.
It’s an adaptation of Nutrient Film technique that’s popular in hydroponics.
>>Are your plants give injections of 10-10-10, liquified?
Nope, no injections. Just fish poop and water so far.
>>You are an eingineer, of course, to put all that contraption together.
I’ve worked with a few, but not one myself.
Thanks FRiend.
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