Recent content by Kentucky~Momma

I figured I would post this here, This was last March, getting ready for the first time mowing of the season: Here are pics of the garden as DH is tilling, this is after it has already been disced and plowed, gotta love clay. Where you see the reflection that is about halfway down the...

I know that coffee grounds are good for getting rid of snails and slugs. The caffeine in the grounds is harmful to them. Here that is our biggest problem. Brewed coffee has more caffeine then say instant coffee, and is therefore more effective as well.

What we do is throughout the planting and growing season we mix it into our regular compost pile. We treat it like anything else we put in there. After the growing season is complete we start putting piles into our garden and just keep doing this all winter long until planting time comes. We...

We get along with our neighbors quite well, and we have put down grass and weed killer, a broad spectrum, to eliminate all grass and weeds on both sides of the fences, and at all property lines that would interfere with both gardens and flower beds. Benefits that might help your neighbor agree...

That sounds really interesting. I would really like to know how that turns out and what you learn.

We just add our compost to our yard. Usually for filling holes and divots. Where we are we have a lot of sink holes and places the ground is sinking. We just mix our stuff from the runs and coops in with our compost each time we clean. Stir it around a bit and let it do it's job.

We don't use our chickens mainly because they don't want to go back that far! :lau . Our garden is on the very back of our property so it is just not somewhere they have ventured, yet.... (We get to the garden by riding in a golf cart or driving a car back) We instead barter with a guy at church...

How about something about preserving what you have grown, whether it be canning or freezing, everyone has questions and tips and tricks. I know that it could be put into the Everything else forum, but they might get lost there. I also really like the idea of the garden pests. I know it took a...

I was thinking the same thing, I keep jumping between both of them with my tabs....