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IF you can get them to work........most just stand there with their thumb up their __________ .
What Did You Do In The Garden?
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The secret is to pay by the job (done well) not by the hour.
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The ones that are lazy I pay and say thank you. The ones who work hard I pay a little extra and say I call you again.
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if you have a good enough location you don't have to haul stuff. the hard part of running a veggie/fruit stand is just being there and dealing with people. the guy we used to get things from just could not find good workers - he ended up quitting running his own stand down the road from us and switched to a market, but i'm not sure how he's done since then since i don't see him any more.
running a tiller is hot and heavy work if it is the walk behind kind. i did my last bout of that 7 yrs ago or so and i hope i don't have to do it ever again. i'll dig by hand first.
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seedcorn
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Today planted okra, green beans, cabbages, eggplants and a new type of Roma for me. Trying Super Italian paste-write up says sweet as well as large yields. Have a bunch of volunteer San Marzano that I will transplant.
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I turned dirt for a bed. It is about 20 feet like and 3 feet wide and a foot wide walk path. It took about an hour, but I still have some raking and adding manure. I may get my whole garden turned. I am thinking of doing something like the picture. Are these rows in the picture 2 feet or 3 feet wide? Would 3 feet be a better choice?
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digitS'
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If they are 3', it looks like the paths are 2'.
I'm not sure who would need or much appreciate a bed smaller than 3'. 5' is a real stretch for me - nothing I'm interested in doing.
In one garden I had, it worked out that I could have my usual 4' beds if the paths were only 18". Beds with no frames -- I could layout those measurements, then I'd walk on the edges of the beds all summer. I just could not keep my feet confined to an 18" path.
Steve
I'm not sure who would need or much appreciate a bed smaller than 3'. 5' is a real stretch for me - nothing I'm interested in doing.
In one garden I had, it worked out that I could have my usual 4' beds if the paths were only 18". Beds with no frames -- I could layout those measurements, then I'd walk on the edges of the beds all summer. I just could not keep my feet confined to an 18" path.
Steve
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Between phone calls and picking up a couple more loan signings AND kitten-sitting--they are demanding more soft food, now!!--didn't get out to do ANYTHING until 4PM today! 
I tilled up some stall waste from last winter, and tilled it into the first bed. I am having push mower problems, so I used my spade to dig up weeds, mostly chickgrass, including some garden dirt, put it all in a wheelbarrow and dumped it in the chicken run. They LOVED it and decided that the new dirt would be good to bathe in. Honestly, the first time you see a chicken take a dirt bath, you think that they are in their death throes!
I went beyond the edges of the bed an promised t-storm came this evening. Tommorow I am covering it in plastic while it is still soaking wet and try to kill the seeds in it. I think I will direct plant cabbage there.
I also finished cleaning the stalls that my horses are no longer using since they are out to pasture full time now. THAT is a first. Usually I look at the mess in the 3 stalls come July and have a talk with my past self about cleanliness is next to Godliness...or something like that, and why did I wait?
SOMEtime this Spring I will strip their shelter. I hope the tiller can help me...
I tilled up some stall waste from last winter, and tilled it into the first bed. I am having push mower problems, so I used my spade to dig up weeds, mostly chickgrass, including some garden dirt, put it all in a wheelbarrow and dumped it in the chicken run. They LOVED it and decided that the new dirt would be good to bathe in. Honestly, the first time you see a chicken take a dirt bath, you think that they are in their death throes!
I went beyond the edges of the bed an promised t-storm came this evening. Tommorow I am covering it in plastic while it is still soaking wet and try to kill the seeds in it. I think I will direct plant cabbage there.
I also finished cleaning the stalls that my horses are no longer using since they are out to pasture full time now. THAT is a first. Usually I look at the mess in the 3 stalls come July and have a talk with my past self about cleanliness is next to Godliness...or something like that, and why did I wait?
SOMEtime this Spring I will strip their shelter. I hope the tiller can help me...
