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A place for people to pool their knowledge about organic gardening -- tips and tricks for the novice and expert alike. 1 Jan 70 Re: Butter Making ... 1 Jan 70 Butter Making Jayson I recently started a blog on farming and homesteading, and in one of the first articles I did a piece on how to make butter... 1 Jan 70 Re: decomp oak leaves Chri... To make the oak leaf compost more alkaline, since it is so acidic, I'd also add lime to the compost pile... 1 Jan 70 Re: decomp oak leaves Chri... 10 years ago I lived on an acre of land with several Oak trees and a Pine. I had a compost pile I would put the leaves and needles in along with cut grass, because we had a lawn in front, too... 1 Jan 70 Re: decomp oak leaves Janet Great stuff here--although I'm way late to the party! :) Anyway, I have about 4 acres of oak trees and there's no way I can get a mower on that hilly, rocky land... 1 Jan 70 Re: Winter Garden in South Texas Chri... I think it would be fine. I used to live in Mobile, AL and would plant things year round... 1 Jan 70 Re: Winter Garden in South Texas ... 1 Jan 70 Re: Wood ash uses and dangers Unsu... interesting, thanks Brian ... 1 Jan 70 Re: Wood ash uses and dangers Brian With the recent radioactivity increase from the Japanese accident, I would not use wood ash for anything you might later eat... 1 Jan 70 Re: Planting in the rain? Max Hello everyone, My friends Robert and Terese have a few hundred acres up the river. They have an irigation licence and can irrigate whenever they like... 1 Jan 70 Re: Snails! Max Hi everyone Where I live there are no snails Some slugs but zero snails Maybe because I live in the countryside... 1 Jan 70 Re: Wood ash uses and dangers Chili certainly the ash I put on gets washed off into the soil around the roses, but I've never seen any harm come to them at all and I only apply a handful once or twice a year... 1 Jan 70 Re: Wood ash uses and dangers will maybe the concern is lye? isn't lye made by leaching ashes? ... 1 Jan 70 Re: Wood ash uses and dangers Frau... hm, interesting. My trusty gardening book from the 50's warns destinctly against it. Maybe they mean roots and stem etc... 1 Jan 70 Re: Wood ash uses and dangers Chili >Dont let the ash touch plants directly< hm. I have used wood ash (not paper ash) to remove aphids from my roses for decades... 1 Jan 70 Re: Wood ash uses and dangers Frau... it so depends on the type of soil you have and also how well you mix it. leaving it on the surface causes it to change chemically and it becomes caustic... 1 Jan 70 Re: Wood ash uses and dangers will we use ashes on the driveway in winter as an alternative to salt. (make sure there are no nails in the ashes!)... 1 Jan 70 Re: Wood ash uses and dangers Unsu... I mix it in my mulch pile, seems to add a nice touch, not too much where the water runs off or clogs up ... 1 Jan 70 Re: Raccoon deterrent jeza... I read through the advertisement but couldn't tell if it works at night. That's when my pond gets destroyed by the racoons... 1 Jan 70 Re: menstrual blood as fertilizer? Kayem This is a great thread. I was actually looking up if Menstrual Blood was ever used for tests and if not why...
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