2025 gardens

[roony]

I might plant some lettuce soon.

[glenn57]

I might plant some lettuce soon.

you get the seeds from  boar?,

[roony]

No devil's lettuce in my garden Glenn.

[Dotch]

I don't understand...

[glenn57]

No devil's lettuce in my garden Glenn.

yea Dotch said you really dont need any!!!!!!

[roony]

True Fact. I'm high on life.

[Dotch]

Same here. Organic matter in thawing soil is starting to emanate nitrous oxide. Wheeeeee!!! 

All 6 daffodil clumps are emerging as are several spring bulb assortments. Nothing seen poking thru on the rhubarb as it was still under the tree leaves yet.   

[Rookie]

 Dotch.....you use that sheep poop in your gardens???

[Dotch]

I do occasionally but not as much since I soil tested. The vegetable garden area was old cattle pasture or feed lot. The small garden gets the wife's planters dumped on it in the fall. They're loaded with leftover fertilizer. I need to pile the manure so it breaks up better going through the spreader for the vegetable garden. Our sheep manure pack tends to come out in slabs otherwise. More potential issues too when using fresh manure straight out of the barn for veggies as far as listeria, e. coli, salmonella, & other pathogens. Best applied in the fall with fresh manure & worked in. I have some small piles that have been sitting for years. I give that to friends looking for a 5 gallon bucket or two. I use it for flower beds & around the rhubarb. Most of our fresh stuff gets spread on the neighbor's field.   

https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/safely-using-manure-garden/

[glenn57]

I do occasionally but not as much since I soil tested. The vegetable garden area was old cattle pasture or feed lot. The small garden gets the wife's planters dumped on it in the fall. They're loaded with leftover fertilizer. I need to pile the manure so it breaks up better going through the spreader for the vegetable garden. Our sheep manure pack tends to come out in slabs otherwise. More potential issues too when using fresh manure straight out of the barn for veggies as far as listeria, e. coli, salmonella, & other pathogens. Best applied in the fall with fresh manure & worked in. I have some small piles that have been sitting for years. I give that to friends looking for a 5 gallon bucket or two. I use it for flower beds & around the rhubarb. Most of our fresh stuff gets spread on the neighbor's field.   

https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/safely-using-manure-garden/

you sure know your poop!!!!!!!

seriously though that was a great article!!!!!!!!!

[Rookie]

To bad I don't live close enough to get a few pails full.

[LPS]

Same with horse manure Dotch?  An old guy used to come and get horse manure from me every year.  Doesn't it have more weed seed that is still good in it?  Cattle having more stomachs I thought ruined the seeds of weeds.  ????   

[roony]

To bad I don't live close enough to get a few pails full.

You need to get on Dotch's mailing list.

[glenn57]

To bad I don't live close enough to get a few pails full.

You need to get on Dotch's mailing list.

and you don't even need to request it