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  1. southern28chick

    My garden now

    (this was posted on BYC too) I finally found some time to work on my garden and now that all dangers of a late frost has past ( :fl ) I planted some corn. I'll get more planted in the next few days. I'm going to buy some started plant too. Like tomatoes and herbs. Everything else I think...
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    Spinach seedlings

    OMG! Spinach seeds grow FAST! I just started them about 4 days ago! Cool link about Spinach: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/spinach1.html Is it true that you can get kidney stones from eating to much Spinach? I think I saw that on an episode of Reba. :D
  3. southern28chick

    WOO HOO new garden! FINALLY

    It's about 20'x40' Tilling was finished today. We added to the soil mushroom compost and our chicken poo and pine shavings from last summer. I took the pictures so you don't see that I actually did any work but I did a lot of it. We're both very sore and tired. I'm thinking about a nice hot...
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    Composting and soil amendment

    I have 2 compost piles that consist of AGED chicken poo, veggie scraps, wheat straw and pine shavings. I'm thinking about burning leaves in my old veggie garden site (now that the fire ban has been lifted in my area). Then I want to mix in egg shells and the contents of my compost pile. That...
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    Rose question

    I have 3 rose bushes (red, pink and yellow) and a running rose bush (pink if I remember correctly) that has tiny roses and grows/runs on my wooden fence in my backyard. I'll get a picture later. 1st qusetion: How can I make new plants out of clippings? I think I've heard that you can clip a...
  6. southern28chick

    Cutting a new garden

    Hi y'all! My first post here. :D I have an old garden next to the chicken yard but the trees are growing up around it and not much sunlight gets to it anymore. That garden was about 20'x25'. = I want to cut a new garden for this Spring in my backyard since there's more room and less...
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