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Ninny:
DR is just a company that has all kind of yard and garden equipment for home use, they advertise on tv all the time. If you decide to buy a tiller get a rear-tine one the ones with the tines in the front with vibrate you to death!! I saw some at Home Depot the other day the rear tine ones are almost $500.00 but I guess if you use it a lot it would be ok. The front tine ones are a lot cheaper. Those are walk behind tillers, the one I saw on tv you pull behind your garden tractor...I can imagine they are probably $1000.00 how rude! In desperate times I have dug my garden with a shovel..hard work! I had raised beds once they were a lot easier to make in one way and then in another way they are a pain..my husband griped at me for years when I abandoned my back-yard raised beds for a big patch my neighbor disked up with his tractor for me! I didn't really smooth out the beds so my hubby hated mowing over those lumps in the yard!! ;D ;D
Dig, Ya'll!!
Kathy ;)
EKnight:
I live near Pine Island NY and they have what is called the black dirt region. You should see how dark and rich looking this soil is. They grow mostly onions there but I had sod done in a small section of fenced-in yard and they said it was grown in the black dirt. After they till it, it's just beautiful....ha ha imagine beautiful DIRT.
Eileen
Ninny:
Are you kidding I LOVE beautiful dirt!! I am not so fond of all the red clay stuff here. My yard has a lot of red clay, but there is some good places in it where it's not so bad. In Hawaii, though...there was red dirt everywhere! You don't wear your shoes into the house there! No carpet can hold up under the red clay!
Rich black dirt would be cool! 8)
Kathy ;)
Kat:
Well I think this is a great time to get out there and get your hands dirty :)
It does take work and of course the bigger your garden spot the more work it will be. So go smaller and just make a salad garden or a herb garden, any little bit you get is better than nothing. I think mine will be much better this year, as last year I was kind of getting started.
Eileen I'm putting up a short fence (only 3 ft.) to keep the dogs out, that would work on the little critters for you. But deer are a different story, I found this site where there are a lot of people proven methods, here's the link http://www.carolinacountry.com/StoryPages/howtos/deeroutofgarden.htm
Kathy, I planted taters last year and they didn't do well, so I'm skipping them this year. I don't have a tiller, I don't think I need one for the little spots I'm working up. I don't have rich black dirt, but it's not red clay either. So I'm thinking mulch is a key factor in keeping weeds down and holding moisture in. So I plan to go heavier on the mulch this year.
Here's hoping we all have success in the up coming gardening season :D
mercy, peace and love
Kat
Ninny:
Hey Kat, mulch is definitely the answer to the soil problem! Yeah, I guess I'd better start with just a little spot myself! Something that I can do alone! I have thought about doing planters, too. Some tomatoes grow well in containers. I have seen people grow some kind of strawberries in pots, too. Maybe I will check that out, too. I go to dig me a little patch o' dirt! Oh, I just remembered I have a little area on the south side of my house that would be a good place to start! :D I'd probably have to fence it a little to keep the wandering dogs out of it! People just let their dogs ramble around at night. I lock my dogs up tight at night so they don't bark at the roamers! I can't understand why people let their dogs run all over the countryside! We have always kept our dogs fenced in the yard, what is so hard about that? (that's for another subject though!!) ;D
Kathy :)
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