Comments on: Composting…I’m Impressed! http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693 Coverin the bases in Miz Judi's Kitchen Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:51:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: jwlrymkr http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-815 jwlrymkr Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:21:16 +0000 http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-815 Those are some mighty tough worms ya got there mister! LOL I need to get busy on making myself a compost pile. I did start a worm composter this year and I must say, that worm poo is excellent for making compost tea. Now if I can just get my wife to stop feeding the chickens all the worms, I'll be in good shape. Happy composting my friend and Deb, you hang in there! Keeping you guys in my prayers. Those are some mighty tough worms ya got there mister! LOL
I need to get busy on making myself a compost pile. I did start a worm composter this year and I must say, that worm poo is excellent for making compost tea. Now if I can just get my wife to stop feeding the chickens all the worms, I’ll be in good shape.
Happy composting my friend and Deb, you hang in there! Keeping you guys in my prayers.

]]> By: susan elaine http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-798 susan elaine Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:20:34 +0000 http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-798 http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37812 Here's a link for you on the Rural Council. And if you really want to have your mind blown, google Agenda 21. Best to you and Deb. Love your site and you guys are my prayers. http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37812

Here’s a link for you on the Rural Council. And if you really want to have your mind blown, google Agenda 21.

Best to you and Deb. Love your site and you guys are my prayers.

]]> By: Sandra http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-796 Sandra Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:47:56 +0000 http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-796 To Texas Gal. Daughter called all excited coupla weeks ago about some earth boxes. Could get them off the net for 39.95+s&h. Looked them up and laughed. Plastic, little grid in bottom with a piece of PVC for watering. Kids, just don't know about them. It does not work unless they pay big bucks for something. Told her dig a hole for flowers, recycle some pots, use some old lumber from somewhere. Think I will direct her to the Texas Gals comments on "ridin" so she can get some pointers on how to do stuff. Nothing like the East and West Texas Folks. Oops. Gotta go water leak at the kitchen sink and my expertise is needed. Laughing! To Texas Gal. Daughter called all excited coupla weeks ago about some earth boxes. Could get them off the net for 39.95+s&h. Looked them up and laughed. Plastic, little grid in bottom with a piece of PVC for watering. Kids, just don’t know about them. It does not work unless they pay big bucks for something. Told her dig a hole for flowers, recycle some pots, use some old lumber from somewhere. Think I will direct her to the Texas Gals comments on “ridin” so she can get some pointers on how to do stuff. Nothing like the East and West Texas Folks. Oops. Gotta go water leak at the kitchen sink and my expertise is needed. Laughing!

]]> By: Sandra http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-795 Sandra Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:28:17 +0000 http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-795 Yes indeed, that juicing thing really works, everyone should give it a shot ill or not. Impressed about your compost heap. You know the heap is official when earthworms move in. To new heapers just starting out, to help your heap get started buy a little box of fishing worms and throw them in. Makes a difference. Gonna plant okra? Gumbo! My Aunt Ida that passed away in the seventies at age 95 gave me a secret to planting okra. She soaked it in bleach for a little while and rinsed them before planting. They came up in no time. My alternative is to soak in warm water overnight. Works just as well. Gee I sure do miss gardening but not the hard work. Texas Gal looks like a keeper. Excellent post Dub&Deb. Kudos to Deb on her test and scores. Yes indeed, that juicing thing really works, everyone should give it a shot ill or not.
Impressed about your compost heap. You know the heap is official when earthworms move in. To new heapers just starting out, to help your heap get started buy a little box of fishing worms and throw them in. Makes a difference.
Gonna plant okra? Gumbo! My Aunt Ida that passed away in the seventies at age 95 gave me a secret to planting okra. She soaked it in bleach for a little while and rinsed them before planting. They came up in no time. My alternative is to soak in warm water overnight. Works just as well. Gee I sure do miss gardening but not the hard work.
Texas Gal looks like a keeper.
Excellent post Dub&Deb. Kudos to Deb on her test and scores.

]]> By: Texas Gal http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-794 Texas Gal Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:41:26 +0000 http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-794 GOOD GOING ON THAT JUICING! You keep that up, using those fresh veggies, and you'll both get a clean bill of health before long... Been there 'n done that! (You think maybe our Creator is smart enough to design the PERFECT fuel for our body?) GOOD GOING on the COMPOST... You'll be glad you did! DEB, I'm so glad you have a DUB to hold you up when you're pert near down... ...and to do all that labor intensive gardening. Many of us have dreamed of the successes you are experiencing. And the rewards for all that WORK! I was real careful not to learn about farming while growing up... and it showed when I've tried off and on, to have a decent garden through the years. But in between growing up on the farm, and returning to said farm in my "Golden Years," I began studying Mel Bartholemew's Square Foot Gardening, and knew in my Knower, I could one day, finally taste gardening success... Now, Mel's latest book -- after some 27 or so years of perfecting his system -- ALL NEW SQUARE FOOT GARDEN, has set me up for success! For me -- by now an old lady with no tractor and no Dub -- the only labor concerned in this system, has been to build my boxes (mostly waist-high) from scrap lumber, drag from the barn, an old leaky water trough, a dilapidated pickup tool box, and a bull panel to support energetic vine veggies... then the mixing of a bunch of compost, and Sphagnum moss and vermiculite. THE EXPENSE? Buying the "dirt contents," and watering just the PLANTS -- not the whole dang however many acres of ground it would take to produce a similar crop! NEXT YEAR'S WORK? Year after year, all I'll have to do to said "dirt" is add one scoop of compost per square foot, and poke in some more seeds, remembering to rotate my crops! Oh! And reap the harvest promises to be the major 'labor intensive' ! Even starting this late in the season, (mid-June) and with all this oppressive three-digit heat in West Texas, those little buggers are green and growing! No tilling, no thinning, no weeds, little stooping and bending... The Start-up Costs are a pittance compared to buying a tractor and hiring a DUB! 'Course, DEB, if you'd hire out your DUB and his tractor, I'd look around the place, and find something I could barter with! Keep up the good work -- and keep updating us on all your concerns and victories. Love and Shalom from "the South Forty" -- Texas Gal GOOD GOING ON THAT JUICING! You keep that up, using those fresh veggies, and you’ll both get a clean bill of health before long… Been there ‘n done that! (You think maybe our Creator is smart enough to design the PERFECT fuel for our body?)

GOOD GOING on the COMPOST… You’ll be glad you did!

DEB, I’m so glad you have a DUB to hold you up when you’re pert near down…

…and to do all that labor intensive gardening. Many of us have dreamed of the successes you are experiencing. And the rewards for all that WORK!

I was real careful not to learn about farming while growing up… and it showed when I’ve tried off and on, to have a decent garden through the years. But in between growing up on the farm, and returning to said farm in my “Golden Years,” I began studying Mel Bartholemew’s Square Foot Gardening, and knew in my Knower, I could one day, finally taste gardening success… Now, Mel’s latest book — after some 27 or so years of perfecting his system — ALL NEW SQUARE FOOT GARDEN, has set me up for success!

For me — by now an old lady with no tractor and no Dub — the only labor concerned in this system, has been to build my boxes (mostly waist-high) from scrap lumber, drag from the barn, an old leaky water trough, a dilapidated pickup tool box, and a bull panel to support energetic vine veggies… then the mixing of a bunch of compost, and Sphagnum moss and vermiculite.

THE EXPENSE? Buying the “dirt contents,” and watering just the PLANTS — not the whole dang however many acres of ground it would take to produce a similar crop!

NEXT YEAR’S WORK? Year after year, all I’ll have to do to said “dirt” is add one scoop of compost per square foot, and poke in some more seeds, remembering to rotate my crops!

Oh! And reap the harvest promises to be the major ‘labor intensive’ ! Even starting this late in the season, (mid-June) and with all this oppressive three-digit heat in West Texas, those little buggers are green and growing!

No tilling, no thinning, no weeds, little stooping and bending… The Start-up Costs are a pittance compared to buying a tractor and hiring a DUB!

‘Course, DEB, if you’d hire out your DUB and his tractor, I’d look around the place, and find something I could barter with!

Keep up the good work — and keep updating us on all your concerns and victories.

Love and Shalom from “the South Forty” — Texas Gal

]]> By: admin http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-793 admin Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:41:05 +0000 http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-793 We live in Central Florida "Tea Patriot," not Canada, but we have many good, good friends who do live in Canada! How bout a link to Obama's Rural Council...I'd like to read on it. Thanks for reading, and taking the time to comment. We appreciate both! Dub We live in Central Florida “Tea Patriot,” not Canada, but we have many good, good friends who do live in Canada! How bout a link to Obama’s Rural Council…I’d like to read on it. Thanks for reading, and taking the time to comment. We appreciate both!
Dub

]]> By: EndtheFED&IMF http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-792 EndtheFED&IMF Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:07:23 +0000 http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=693#comment-792 I'm starting my own gardening too. Unfortunately, composting will probably be taxed or, made illegal; due to the carbon footprint of a natural process. Obama just created a White House Rural Council, to regulate all usage of rural property. So home gardens will soon be outlawed.. GMO's will also be the only food source soon. I hope you don't let that happen in Canada. Good luck! I’m starting my own gardening too. Unfortunately, composting will probably be taxed or, made illegal; due to the carbon footprint of a natural process. Obama just created a White House Rural Council, to regulate all usage of rural property. So home gardens will soon be outlawed.. GMO’s will also be the only food source soon. I hope you don’t let that happen in Canada. Good luck!

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