Vegetable Gardens

[denata]

 

[schiker]

Finally installed the Trellis for our box garden. Wife has been chomping at bit to plant. She has lots of little planters going. Going to try some potato bags this year. She is planting some Okra on top of potatoes in bag. Will spray weeds and mulch then place potato bags around perimeter of garden.

 

[schiker]

Going to try a worm farm to make worm casings for soil amendment.

 

[jrsavoie]

Going to try a worm farm to make worm casings for soil amendment.

Worm casings are great.

For a couple years in a row. Maybe still. Farm & Fleet had some 13 13 13 heat turned out to be worm.casings.
It stunk and didn't spread well. It wouldn't run.through a light duty spreader.

But it sure seemed to do the job

 

[ak diesel driver]

 

[jrsavoie]

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Greenhouse frame?

I saw 10 and 12" concrete drainage tile advertised on marketplace for planters./ raised bed

They actually didn't look to shabby.
I have some 18" or so diameter that I may try selling or giving away.

A lit of times I can't give things away.
Nobody wants my junk. But they're all over buying it cheap and getting a bargain

 

[MrMarty51]

Greenhouse frame?

I saw 10 and 12" concrete drainage tile advertised on marketplace for planters./ raised bed

They actually didn't look to shabby.
I have some 18" or so diameter that I may try selling or giving away.

A lit of times I can't give things away.
Nobody wants my junk. But they're all over buying it cheap and getting a bargain

Stuff I dont want to haul to the landfill.
Park it along the curb and hang a for sale sign onnit, includes price.
Give it about ten minits, BOOM ! ! ! ! GONE ! !

 

[jrsavoie]

Stuff I dont want to haul to the landfill.
Park it along the curb and hang a for sale sign onnit, includes price.
Give it about ten minits, BOOM ! ! ! ! GONE ! !

After I saw the planter Idea. I was interested in doing it at our house.

It doesn't look like we're even going to get much of a garden in this year.

But I'm on light duty for the next couple of months. These exceed my eight restrictions and the backhoe isn't going to be running until after I am.

 

[ak diesel driver]

 

[MrMarty51]

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Nice work.

 

[jrsavoie]

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Very nice. Anxious to see how it progresses

 

[ak diesel driver]

 

[MrMarty51]

Love the video.
If ever I were to move to an area with forest, a bandsaw mill would be my first purchase.

 

[Will L.]

@ak diesel driver

First- thats awesome!

Many years ago I helped an uncle chink a log cabin. He said that after many years pass the logs dry out and would need to rechink. He explained why window & door frames get slotted mounting instead of solid all the way around.

All the building here is kiln dried wood. How does that work out making your own lumber? Do you do a drying process for some of the lumber once milled or can you build right away with it?

 

[ak diesel driver]

This is all made from dead standing trees. Might shrink some but not much. Biggest reason for the "slotting" as you called it is to keep things from twisting. It shouldn't do much of that either but no kill like overkill. Lol

 

[Will L.]

Dead standing trees is normal here- forget to water them and POOF they are dead! Haha
I have a dead one in my front yard from a plugged water drip nozzle, but it’s barely enough to make a few splinters. Some decorative tree the wife wanted.

I have a dwarf grapefruit tree and a meyers lemon tree that we planted a few years back. I gotta search out trimming them the right way. I half expected them to just die honestly but since they are growing well & making fruit, guess I ought to learn how to do it the right way.

 

[schiker]

Good looking greenhouse. Dead trees here get eaten up with bugs and rot within a couple years. Except Cedar will last a good while and some others Black Locust, Cypress but I don't have any of those. I have heard a dead dry black walnut will stall a gang saw and are harder to process.

All planted and cleaned up and re-mulched/strawed. It will be over grown in a month. Wife packs it in tight. I am not sure how the double planting in the potato bags will go. She planted some beans in one and still have to suspend some string down to the bag from the trellis.

 

[schiker]

Heck it doesn’t have to be a dead tree. Lots of oaks die here of bugs. Black ants and other insects find wounds or Y’s if it holds water and can’t scab over it is doomed.

 

[schiker]

Anyone correct if I’m wrong. These River Birch are real fighters. They don’t go down easy to the insects and rot.

 

[schiker]

Oops the other side of the same River Birch.