Well the time has come (as many of you already know) for me to finally build the wonderful outdoor veggy garden I've long awaited. Last time I had an outdoor veggy garden was back in the mid 90's and I was still married to my um.....ex. :icon_confused: Since then I've just not had the place to do so....until now. The plan is for a 8' x 24', fully enclosed, raised bed, organic garden including fruit trees and compost bin. I've been collecting scrap building material from my place in order to keep costs down, but some things I'll just have to break down and buy. First thing I got going was the composter. There's two horses here and BOY do they shit.....I know....I shoveled a LOT of it into the composter! I wanted a bin big enough to meet 'demand' so I made it with 3 chambers. Each chamber is 42" x 42" x 42" with dual removable gates in front. This allows for easy turning and removal when the time comes to add the compost to the garden beds. Pretty soon there'll be goat shit, rabbit shit, and chicken shit to add in too. Should be quite the mix. :laughing5: In this next picture you can see in the upper right corner the new chicken coop I'm putting together. Chickens will be forth coming this week. We'll have both laying hens and meat chickens. Gonna be working on building um a roosting box soon. Yup.......that's ALLoop: This is a shot looking down at the various levels. Kinda hard to see but there's one level just below the composter that will be used for the tractor to get thru to the horse pen (adjacent to the compost bin and out of frame) and garden. Pretty much where you see the wire rolls below. The next landing below that is where the garden will be. Going down one more step (where the green grass is just above the fence line) is where we'll be placing our fruit trees. I hope to get working on the garden structure this week. It's going to be nice weather so if all goes well I'll have it all layed out and ready for the verticle posts to go in. I'll be adding updates as I go along so stay tuned. :icon_bounce:
Been workin the land herb! Hey cool... like the look of the land herb...:icon_thumleft: A herbsparky show and tell thread???IM TUNED IN!:jj:
Nice place Herb I guess your getting ready for all hell to break lose. Sounds like a good idea the way prices on everything are going up Good luck-Bud
looks liks plenty of good land herb, say, can i come stay at the sparky compound when the shit hits fan?i can work hard and shoot like a pro.i'll even bring smoke:qbluewacko: we just got our new place today and it has a large yard so i'll be starting a garden myself when the snow melts. i'm curious as to how much it'll take to feed a family of 6,probably a whole lot more than i can grow in 1 season,but the way things are headed it sure won't hurt to hone my vegetable gardening skills a little. looks like you got the property to set yourself up right herb,great to see someone really walking it instead of just talking it.good luck brother, at least some of us see what lies ahead.
Well, I can tell by the fences and the trail lines, and the fact that the grass is well shorn down, even if it is a tad arid, you got critters, or more like shitters, per the compost box. You, and my brother both, are preparing for, "The End." :evil4: Well, YOU'RE prepping, and he talk's about it. Lets just say I am no doubter that sooner or later, bad things are going to go down. Anyhoodles, it is clear, that that compost will VASTLY improve the qualities of the arid soil at your elevation. I can't blame people from jumping to assume your all into this for,"Herb's Herb." From what I've read, your attempting to pull yourself from the grid.
Nice layout! Nice, Herb! ,...What kinda fruit trees are you going with? Looks like you have your work cut out! Got a couple of teenage hired hands around?, lol...
Interesting! Ive not seen or witnessed a post from YOU "Herb" for a long time now bro... This will be very interesting indeed to tune into n see all thats to be done to ctreate such an aim for you GARDEN! :thumbsup: Nice size land ya got there, and plenty spaces for MANY MANY different thing in general to! UBB......... :thumbsup: bro....... Keep it up Herb my good fellow GKer!
Hey Herb, You got a beautiful place out there. I love the country. I grew up on a farm in the south working in tobacco and cattle and riding horses. I love riding horses. Great animals...So when all us Mods get together at your place for that party we are going to have someday we can go riding! YeHa!!! LOL
Interesting. It looks like a three stage composter but then you have two bins full with what looks to be fresh materials. A reference I just looked up. http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC1600.htm Horse (fresh ) is a 25 to 1 nitrogen to carbon material. In compost terms "it's hot." Also, it was a "green" in the first pile I ever made. Brings back memories. Anyway is that a three stage bin system? I think I see double sliders in each access. That I like. Looks nice and square.
Let me be clear....this is a VEGGY garden...not an outdoor garden for growing 'herb'. The G-friend's parents aren't what you would call 'MJ friendly' so much. There's 14 acres here, but most of it is cleared and not real good for hiding plants on I'm afraid. Sucks too because it's THE perfect pace to grow....ah well. Yes Randy it is a 3 stage compost bin, but I had to adapt to what was already going on here. Originally we were gonna go with planting right in the ground so the g-friend's dad spread a bunch of horse manure on the spot where the garden will be. We later decided to go with raised beds so I had him scoop the poop and dump it next to the composter. I then shoveled it in. Had to do what I had to do. I have mature compost at my place that I will be bringing over to mix into the beds while we wait for the horse crap to mature. This is my 4th compost bin in fact so it'll be fine...no worries. Not sure what trees she wants Smilez. I know her parents have some of their own so we're gonna get something different for more variety. And no...the only teen around here is a lazy ass.....I'm working on that though. :laughing5: Master...I'm not preparing for 'the end'...I'm just preparing for rough times is all. I've always enjoyed being one with the land anyway so it suits me. I was working gardens as a kid with my grandparents and loved it then. As for pulling off the grid....I'd love to but it's not that easy. In fact....I'm doing my best to plan for a time when there is no power at all. Funny huh...being a sparky and all. I figure people lived without power for a long long time....it's not impossible to do now....we just have to adapt back to a way of living that humans once had. I guess that's another reason to have chickens...no alarm clocks. :icon_confused: Hygrade...you're more than welcome if you can find me. Can always use a few good hands to work the land. Good thing is...the g-friend's dad has all the toys we need....if we have fuel for them. More to come...I've been setting up an area to cure firewood and helping build a fence today. We'll be getting a milking goat this week to go in with the pigmy goats we already have, but as of now they are at my place.....the fence will give them a place of their own here. Gotta set up the chicken coop too. It's all good though...I love doingthis stuff.
hell yeah herb,though you may have to give a hint or 2 as to the coordinates,as far as fuel for the toys,give me a good supply of bat guano and i can make all we'll ever need!:qright6: i have to say i envy the hell out of your situation bro(the good kind of envy),again i wish you luck
Get some peaches! Herb, you gotta convince her that she needs 2 New Haven peach trees,....:love4: You won't be sorry, the BEST peaches you will EVER eat in your entire life....Stella cherries are excellent, as well, and they grow really fast, you'd have cherries in one year....:love4: Lol, sorry, I get all excited at spring projects,.... I was looking at my yard today, where I can see yard, lol...and as soon as the snow is gone, I have lots of ideas.... Have a wonderful time digging and stirring poo, lucky you have "toys" to help out.........:laughing5:
Whatta bunch of crap!!!....literally Is that offer open to anybody, because I see some very subtle clues in those pics that I think I could find you. Of course you'd probably put me to work diggin' holes if I did.
ORGANIC growing in general..... You did alreadt mention that in your "FIRST" post on this thread, iff im NOT misstaken, or the second.... "A Vegg GARDEN, not to cultivate ANY herb..." But ya gotta dmit, it would be LOVELY to have such room! Lucky man in that respet anhow,lol.... Anyway, great, as ive got my GARDEN up n running too, But its in a small-ish Greenhouse at my mothers house, and all i do, is grow tomatoes and Blackberries!!!:love4: :thumbsup: I ALSO use that GEL2ROOT gelling agent, that ya sit yer Cuttings in, and leave em, and just watch the Roots Build infront of you... inside a gel-filled container (see through), and each container holds me easily three TOMATOE cuttings at a time! Right now, Ive ONLY got TWO huge Mother Plants for my tomatoes, and a Blackberry mother too, and around 7-8 TOMATOE plants at around 1 meter and a HALF tall, and very bushy, as i Keep them all in my Bio-Bizz Soil, and that Helps to MAKE the Production that bit sweeter and nicer all in all in PRODUCTION... Also helps to Up the size of my usual tomatoe sized fruits too! Thanks for sharing this thread HERB, Great to Watch, UBB.........:thumbsup:
You're living my dream Herb.....except for the lack of naked tambourine girls rolling and lighting blunts for me while I work the land.... ("BITCH, put that blunt down and pick up a ho! Not her!") But seriously....farming is in my future I hope, and it is good to see people still doing it and loving it!
Nah Joe.........I'd just put ya to work scoopin' shit. ottytrain1: Did the clues give me away? Damnit! :eusa_shifty: Hygrade....I'm near Yosemite...that help? Smilez...I'll mention those trees to her. I do believe her mom has cherrys and peaches already..not sure 100% though. UBB....I just wanted to be sure I was clear on the 'contents' of this garden. Didn't wanna make people think I was gonna have a huge MJ garden going just to leave them hanging later. I'd LOVE to be able to do so...don't get me wrong. Who knows....if the economy goes to shit I just may grow some herb here after all....the gov won't have the funds to come bust me. Lion...I like your way of thinking. While I don't have naked tambourine girls rolling blunts for me I do have a wonderful woman that brings me sun tea and joins me for a bowl every now and then. She likes gardening too so she's right there in it with me.
...down here on the farm... ...'Erb... ...Bravo...nice work...as is par the course with you, sir... ...I am lookin' forward to you sharing with us here yer' projects n' progress thru pixs...seems eerily familiar...nudge nudge wink wink...jokin' of course... ...If you need any pointers with yer' veggy garden...I trust you will not be afraid to ask me...I'm no garden god...but I have had many a learnin' experience in veg gardens...and perhaps I could save you some time or money with an answer some time...so keep that in mind...I'm only a pm away... ...Very nice compost bin... ...best of times with yer' efforts...Sparkster...cheers!... DC:XXsunsmile::new_scatter: