A new journey into homesteading "pic heavy"

[Chic Rustler]

Our only fall crop, the black eyed peas, isn't doing very well in the wood chips. I may need to mix up a batch of rabbit poo tea for them.

 

[milkmansdaughter]

Yep, our Okra's still growing strong. I pulled the tomatoes today. Nothing else is left except our pepper plants.

 

[Mini Horses]

Next year those chips will have rotted into a finer composite and the seeds will do far better. Just be sure you get the seeds into that layer. Then grass clippings, then more mulch. Add some chicken & rabbit manure to it all. Come Spring you should have even more success in that garden. You had a good run this yr!!

I pick up my tiller from the shop in AM. Yippee......want to turn an area so it can be used. Gotta get the grass out of that little round pen. Collards, Kale, Cabbage, Peas....all that stuff still has time to grow here. Should have 3 days to work it next week.

 

[Chic Rustler]

Next year those chips will have rotted into a finer composite and the seeds will do far better. Just be sure you get the seeds into that layer. Then grass clippings, then more mulch. Add some chicken & rabbit manure to it all. Come Spring you should have even more success in that garden. You had a good run this yr!!

I pick up my tiller from the shop in AM. Yippee......want to turn an area so it can be used. Gotta get the grass out of that little round pen. Collards, Kale, Cabbage, Peas....all that stuff still has time to grow here. Should have 3 days to work it next week.

I was planning on doing a big fall garden. But I'm just sick of pulling weeds and grass. I'm trying to choke it all out. And as you can see my garden is surrounded by giant weeds that block sunlight part of the day. I'm going to kill them all, even the ones on the neighbors side

 

[milkmansdaughter]

We just cut around ours with a mower and weed eater, but I can see how hard that would be with your fence. The critters eating my garden this summer were too small to be deterred by a fence.
We got two inches of rain yesterday and as soon as that soil loosened, I was out there pulling grass. It grows so high and thick so fast! I was reading on easy gardens (?) last night about people who cover their whole garden with black plastic to speed decomposition and to choke out the weeds but too many of them had snakes show up for me to be comfortable with trying it.
We're going to use some of those crates we got to try raised beds. Or maybe I'll do a whole garden of okra and peppers and supply restaurants or something. Nothing seems to slow them down...

 

[Mini Horses]

You can do plastic solarization with just a couple months of sun. So, if you hold plastic until Jan/Feb/Mar (depends where you live) the snakes should already be in their holes. & you only have short time to wait. The edges, yep MOW.

I have my tiller in the truck bed Work next 4 days but if weather good, will get it used in late day. Then 3 days of next week. So long as things go well. Rain for wknd. So??? Will see.

 

[baymule]

Niiiice on that pile of wood chips! Your garden ought to break records next year!

 

[Chic Rustler]

My broody hen with her chicks. They are coming along nicely. They will be getting the boot from the little house in a couple weeks tho. Another hen went broody and she's sitting on 11.

 

[Chic Rustler]

The black eyed peas perked up some. Rabbit poo and a heavy watering did them well

 

[Chic Rustler]

The okra is stretching toward eight feet. It's kind of a pain to pick and the wife is sick of canning it. She got upset at me for watering it. Haha