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I was told we could have free 275 gallon water totes for aquaponics, by our local county agent. He said they would come from the water treatment plant. Well, when we had 12" of water in our crawl space & had to pump it out into the roadside ditch, I called the extension agent to see if we could...

Sorry @baymule , I just found this. Here is the info on the company. Organic Resource Co in Sulphur Springs Joey Baxter (903) 243-8296 http://www.myorcgroup.com/index.html That study, that you referenced was done by Our extension agent & this Joey Baxter (among others).

@thistlebloom - I checked with our local bio solids company. They are calling it "organic compost". The owner of the company told me minimum standards is 41ppm if heavy metals. Their compost tests at 3ppm. So, I would consider it safe. It turns out the compost isn't $10/TON. That is for 100...

I didn't know about planting them in a ditch. However, I am sure I could mound compost around them as they grow. I have never seen leeks that big, but I wouldn't complain if mine got that big. :thumbsup

Thanks Smart Red. I'm looking forward to getting Leeks. I tried growing them in PA, but they didn't do well. I am not sure they will take, since they are so tiny/thin. But, am really hoping they take off!

When we moved to our land a year ago last January. I had several false starts getting a garden in. The problem was we had so many projects going, with getting chickens going & learning about raising goats, as well as starting with puppy livestock guardian dogs, we just didn't have energy to...

Okay, I finally got to the grocery store & bought 3 SP. Many of them had ends that were starting to shrivel. So, I tried to find firm SP with lots of eyes & ends that hadn't been marfed when they were dug up. They look similar to yours, in size & shape, @Ridgerunner. I'll try to get a photo...

Were you talking to me, @ducks4you? If so, I didn't actually plant them in soggy soil. Yes, we have soggy clay under our sandy loam. However we haven't planted yet. We have 2X8X16' boards to build a 16" high planter box. I want to try a 4X4' vertical tower/planter box (as described in a previous...

Thanks @Ridgerunner, for talking about doing your slips. I have done that in the past. But, we have had major water issues, since last Dec., due to all the rain we have been getting here, in NE Texas. I wanted to get slips started, but it didn't register that I needed to get my slips started...

I know I'm joining the party a bit late. But, we are gearing up to get our first garden in, this year, since we moved to TX (zone 9a) & moved to our little farm in January of 2015. We grew a small plot of sweet potatoes, in PA with great success. We had very rocky soil, so dug 12" deep...

Woo Hooo! Bring her on!:weee:drool I've done something similar to what you're doing, to get the pigs in the trailer. Catching chickens (to butcher), after dark, is a lot easier than chasing them around in daylight. We snatch them off the roost & keep them in a dog kennel until next morning...

Very pretty! I bought seeds last year (before I knew Baymule would give me plants), but haven't tried planting them yet, because I have been too busy to keep an eye on them, so they don't dry out. In the next week I'm planning to start some seedlings for the garden, so might try starting some...

When we lived in PA, our HOA put herbicides on the grass, to kill Dandelions & Clover. :thI tried to stop them, because those chemicals make me very sick. But the neighbors (who didn't have children) were worried about bees, on the blossoms, would sting the bare fee of children playing on the...

We used screws, as well, but truth be told it would be a pain to take it apart. :eek: To keep the woven wire & welded wire ends from poking us & the animals, we wound the ends around the edges of the cattle panels. That would make it really hard to take it apart.

Yes, Smart Red's greenhouse is turning out nicely. However, it is attached to raised beds. So, is not moveable. The hoop house that DH & I built is two 16' cow panels slightly overlapping (held together with zip ties) and then attached to a box made with 8' 2X4s with 1-3/4" fencing staples. By...

Your greenhouse is looking good Red. We have a hoophouse, that we originally built to be a kennel to separate our LGDs when our Violet went into heat. When the time finally came, we put Deo in it, and they both went crazy being separated like that. We ended up putting Deo in the chicken yard...

Thanks @baymule. These look yummy. I might have to find a source for dandelions, though. I don't remember seeing dandelions on our land last year. Although last Spring & Summer were a blur of activity! I didn't have a lot of time to stop & look around much. :th

;) I hesitated to "like" your post @Poka_Doodle. All these years later, I still remember how painful having braces tightened was. Not fun at all!:thSoup & smoothies might be on the menu for a while. Back in my day. :old I didn't have smoothies to tide me over. :idunno

Sounds yummy! :drool Almost as good as @baymule's Sassafrass Tea! :thumbsup

Absolutely! We would have to have Baymule join us! :) What fun that would be! We would laugh out heads off! :lol: :gig