Coming from east coast of nl its great to have a like minded channel, keep it simple, use what you have and add what you can aquire from friends....happy gardening 2023...
No cost use the soil ya got. Gardening doesn't have to break the bank. It does take a few seasons of adding organic material to the soil surface to see results, but it works. Thanks for sharing.
I like to use the old bedding from the horse farm around the corner from me since it's so coinvent but I keep hearing about these persistent pesticides being used on hay fields and it makes me nervous. So far I haven't noticed any problems but things can change when you don't know the source. Is there an easy test to tell if it's compromised? I was thinking of just mixing some into a pot and trying to grow a bean plant to see if there is an ill affects. Thanks Greg.
Is your plan to have the pond kind of uphill from most of your garden so the moisture just seeps downhill to keep the plants watered? Paani Foundation did similar, I think, with some water harvesting trenches and said the plants downhill from those grew better during the dry season. This is giving me ideas...Right now I keep my compost on the uphill side of the garden so rain washes the nutrients down into the garden (that works very well) but last year we had a pretty bad drought...
Not really. I generally don't have a water shortage problem here. I'm just trying to control water flow on the garden because it's on a slope, and make a nice goldfish pond, and to use that pond for watering when necessary - that's it
Awesome, thank for sharing. 👍❤️😊
Coming from east coast of nl its great to have a like minded channel, keep it simple, use what you have and add what you can aquire from friends....happy gardening 2023...
You got it :)
No cost use the soil ya got. Gardening doesn't have to break the bank. It does take a few seasons of adding organic material to the soil surface to see results, but it works. Thanks for sharing.
We are in Hants county
I like to use the old bedding from the horse farm around the corner from me since it's so coinvent but I keep hearing about these persistent pesticides being used on hay fields and it makes me nervous. So far I haven't noticed any problems but things can change when you don't know the source. Is there an easy test to tell if it's compromised? I was thinking of just mixing some into a pot and trying to grow a bean plant to see if there is an ill affects. Thanks Greg.
That's exactly what the test is man - of course make sure to have another bean growing in good soil for comparison
Is your plan to have the pond kind of uphill from most of your garden so the moisture just seeps downhill to keep the plants watered? Paani Foundation did similar, I think, with some water harvesting trenches and said the plants downhill from those grew better during the dry season. This is giving me ideas...Right now I keep my compost on the uphill side of the garden so rain washes the nutrients down into the garden (that works very well) but last year we had a pretty bad drought...
Not really. I generally don't have a water shortage problem here. I'm just trying to control water flow on the garden because it's on a slope, and make a nice goldfish pond, and to use that pond for watering when necessary - that's it