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MsCwick
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cristine
Farmville
Virginia
USA
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 Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 6:06:54 PM
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I moved some on my electric fencing and started getting an area ready to make some raised beds for next year. I have plenty manure, and 'garden garbage' to add to them before I plant!! My dad has had a garden my whole life, and now it's finally my turn! I'm so excited!
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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vintagechica
True Blue Farmgirl
438 Posts
Eren
Poolville
TX
USA
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Posted - Nov 29 2006 : 7:21:22 PM
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Oh, that is so exciting. I would love a huge area with nothing but raised beds. I wanted to ask...how far away are you from Va. Beach? We are moving back there the end of next summer.
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 07:42:03 AM
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we're going to do 'lasagne' layering gardens next year too! we don't have critters .. so i have to find a farm (can HORSE manure be used???) we are getting neighbors up over the hill that are bringing FOUR horses with them .. and would probably love it if we shovelled it and brought it home!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
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Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 08:09:29 AM
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Raised bed are great. Only use well aged horse manure. I use raised beds for my herb garden and after I threw my old pumpkins on the compost pile last year, this year I had a great crop of pumpkins right beside the compost pile. It cracked me up.
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MsCwick
True Blue Farmgirl
775 Posts
Cristine
Farmville
Virginia
USA
775 Posts |
Posted - Nov 30 2006 : 2:19:13 PM
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The manure I will be using is from last year, and if I need a bit more, what is coming out of the barn now will be about 6 months old by the time I need it. Over the summer I keep a little pail with a top on the counter for what I call 'garden garbage' It's great in the summer b/c it keeps the fruit flies from getting into the trash can, but now I have a great place to dump my garden garbage bucket all winter too!!!
I am about 3.5 hours from VA Beach. |
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
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Posted - Dec 02 2006 : 4:33:15 PM
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I think I am going to use a combination of the lasagna/square foot gardening myself next year - along with the "regular" ol' rows-in-the-dirt method. I'm excited to try some new things, and it sounds like the raised beds are the way to go. Has anyone tried the "vertical" aspect (trellises) of the square foot gardening?
XOXO, Libbie
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