On Sunday 17 May 2015 02:47:58 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 16.05.15 12:16, Gene Heskett wrote: > > All I have here is yellow clay gumbo thats darned near sterile, > > growing only weeds. Last garden I planted had 35 feet of woven wire > > holding up the peas, and another 35 feet holding up some > > half-runners. I got 1, 5 qt saucepan of peas and beans combined. 10 > > lb bag of seed taters gave maybe 5 lbs of marbles. A dozen hills of > > sweet corn grew one ear. > > Needs more than a roll pin to fix that, Gene - a ton of gypsum to > break up the clay, plus a couple of tons of rotted straw/hay, and a > ton or two of cow manure (not too fresh). Plough it all in deep, and > let sit over autumn/winter. May need to repeat after a couple of > years. Mixing in quite a few tons of sand helps too, but is more work. > It's done on farms here, shifting from one part of the farm to > another, and boosts production measurably. > > Mind you, the potatoes are more easily grown in a straw-covered mix of > straw and old cow manure, laid on a layer of newspapers, even over > concrete. A foot-thick layer is good. Lift a handful of straw, harvest > a tater or two, rub 'em spotless on your shirtsleeve if you can see a > speck on 'em. Just don't let the chooks in, whatever you do. > > Erik
I came to the conclusion at about the same time my tiller died, that it was gonna grow weeds & grass the rest of my life. The only thing that really grew is a couple Peonies Dee put out 30 some years ago, and which I had a heck of a time trying not to kill them when I laid up the retaining wall that 2 walls of the garage are now sitting on. This year its blossums were over 3 feet tall till the last rain weighed them down, and what was 2 bulbs is now covering a 4'x6' patch of this gumbo. 2 roses, one a shoot from one her aunt had, about 150 years old grows 3 feet a day so the clippers are never parked too far away, and another up by the west fence is showing signs of life. I cut the obviously dead stuff out of it 2 weeks ago. So I expect it will get 4 feet tall & bloom several times before the next frost. I have my burn pit setup where the garden was a decade back. Thanks Erik. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
