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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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 Posted - Apr 19 2008 : 06:43:57 AM
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I found a 5 year old pile of horse manure here and dh and I shoveled up a trailer full for our Farm girl community garden and took it over to the garden. While barrowing it in to the beds, I realized that this stuff would make the perfect potting soil. It's soft and loose, spongy to walk on and has the most wonderful earthy smell. Judy, the honorary farm girl who donated the space to us, said it was such wonderful stuff, she could just sit in it! So I bagged some up and brought it home to transplant my seedlings. It is, by far, better than anything I have ever gotten in the store.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
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Posted - Apr 20 2008 : 8:42:10 PM
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Dont you just love "unexpected" finds???? I am eager to get out in the garden and yard, but we will have couple nice days, then back to freezing - we had a little of everything today....
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl
" Plant goodness, harvest the fruit of loyalty, plow the new ground of knowledge. Hosea 10:12 |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Apr 21 2008 : 04:28:42 AM
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You bet I do, Rene'. Our weather here has not been very cooperative, either. Warm for a couple days, then goes right back to winter! But during one of our warm spells, I had dug up my over crowded strawberry patch and HAD to get them replanted SOMEWHERE before the roots all dried up and died. I didn't have anywhere here to plant so many (couple hundred). So, finding that pile on Friday (only nice day of the weekend) was perfect. Our community garden needed serious amendments. Around here, almost every garden is built on top of dredge piles!
I've already transplanted all of the seedlings that needed it and top dressed the rest of them. Now, just waiting to see them show their happiness.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/
My Website:
http://www.freewebs.com/lisamariesbasketry/index.htm |
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