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Originally posted by GLM View PostLoved you video on your garden! You mentioned you put celery in your breakfast smoothies - what else do you put in it? I like making smoothies but usually just add fruit. I would like to try a vegetable smoothie!
It starts with what is fresh in the garden. I go out every morning picking ingredients. Today:
spinach, couple different kinds of kale, few beet leaves, few Italian dandelion leaves, few broccoli sprouts with leaves, couple carrots of different colors, couple celery stalks, a few skinny asparagus stalks, large handful of blueberries, handful of raspberries, handful of blackberries and a banana.
Now the powders:
teaspoon chlorella, teaspoon Moringa leaf powder, teaspoon maca powder, and a scoop of fermented dried green drink powder from Organixx.
All goes into a Vitamix with a glass of water and a glass of ice. Nectar of the Gods! Drink a couple of glassfuls of that every morning and good things happen.
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Originally posted by BlakeJ View Posthow is your compost pile set up? and do you have a watering system for your garden?
Every row of my garden has water available but I have found using heavy mulch I don't have to water much. Hardly ever actually. I'll water to get seeds sprouted mostly. When I do have to water I just use a wand on the end of a hose. I used to have drip irrigation on every row but I have taken that out. Just don't need it.
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Originally posted by HappyM View PostElgato when you started with the notill method did you fertilize your fields the first few years?
2 of my fields are in need of a boost. I will be planting the other half of one of them and I am considering adding fertilizer to my seed mix and drilling it in with seed. This may break every rule of farming and be a real bad idea but I have not read or seen anything that addresses the issue in the first year before a biomass Foundation is obtained.
Any assistance or advice by the notillers would be appreciated.
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As always thx for the info and videos. You sharing is saving us a few years on our learning curve. I started with 23 acres with a mix of sun hemp, sorghum, peas, sunflowers , millet, and okra drilled into 3 different fields that I terminated winter weeds with roundup. They are all now up and 2 are doing well and the other is up but looks to be struggling competing with the emerging Bermuda.
My next step us 15 acres I am going to divide into 3 segments. 1) will be 3 acres of sorghum Sudan . This part has heavy Bermuda that I have sprayed but want the shading of the Sudan to win out and begin to bui,d it back. Next is 6 acres of soybeans . I am again worried about the Bermuda but we will see how it goes. Finally 6 acres of dove field. Mostly sunflowers with some millet and sorghum. I sprayed all of it. I think I am going to add 100 lbs per acre of 0-24-24 to the soybeans to give them a boost.
Fingers crossed and thx again.
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Appreciate the videos. Good stuff. Early returns on my maiden voyage are looking ok but lots of weeds. I think I started a little early and did not get a good kill on spring green up. Put that one in lessons learned column. Pics of 2 different fields and the next project which will be soybeans.
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