I've got carrots, spinach, radishes, brussel sprouts, kale, collards mustard, sweet peas and lettuce in the ground. not much has come up yet but should be soon. Cover crop of food crop seeds + winter rye coming through. Just waitin on grub now!
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Originally posted by locolobo View PostI've tried for years many different ways to make compost and they all have ended up with fire ants. your piles ( and mine) were not getting hot enough to deter ants.
Last year I acquired one of the tall, heavy duty trash cans, the type used by Waste Management etc. I drilled myriads of holes for air, the lowest about a foot from the bottom, and sat it on top of a pallet to keep it off the ground and started building my pile inside. Turned it every once in a while. Took a while but I made my first decent compost with that.
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I've googled and read this thread a few times...
What's the conscious of safety of using a water trough for a raised bed wether it be Rubbermaid (Plastic) or Galvanized? We have a big garden in the yard going but momma wants some peppers and tomatoes by the porch in the spring. I don't really want to build something permanent.
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Originally posted by TreyRo View PostI've googled and read this thread a few times...
What's the conscious of safety of using a water trough for a raised bed wether it be Rubbermaid (Plastic) or Galvanized? We have a big garden in the yard going but momma wants some peppers and tomatoes by the porch in the spring. I don't really want to build something permanent.
Theve been using plastic and galvanized pipe for water for years and years.
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Galv? maybe get a dose of zinc in the vegis. And once a little rust makes it through even adding some iron. Jokes aside and might even be true, I would not worry about plastic or galv. Natural wood would always be better like western cedar my fav for garden container but crazy cost so its out for a while. Consider the mass of cedar fence freebies where folks replace fence and give it away. I will prolong the misery of a long repsonse to say no chemical treated woods allowed in my home containers. Some of that is really yuk.
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Originally posted by TreyRo View PostI've googled and read this thread a few times...
What's the conscious of safety of using a water trough for a raised bed wether it be Rubbermaid (Plastic) or Galvanized? We have a big garden in the yard going but momma wants some peppers and tomatoes by the porch in the spring. I don't really want to build something permanent.
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