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Post by jack on May 9, 2010 3:57:10 GMT -6
Gidday I guess I should show you some of my garden, ready for winter, apart from the weeds that is.   These two were taken looking east accross my root crop garden towards an old row of corn.  Looking back over the same plot. Parsips, then swedes(I think you jokers call them ratabuggers or something) then celeriac, broad beans, beet root, carrots, celeriac, carrots,broad beans, beetroot, salsify, parsnips, and more swedes, and of course weeds.  Compost bins. On the left is normal compost mixed with cow poop. The centre seaweed and cow poop, last week this was over 5 foot high and has settled down at least 16 inches, and the one on the right is just starting off with food scraps and cow poop. All 3 are also full of worms.  Drums of seaweed brewing into tea.  The other gardens growing mainly greens. On the near left a row of old dwarf beans then under a bit of straw are about 4 dozen very small brassicas then some leeks. |
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Post by jerseycub on May 9, 2010 5:49:23 GMT -6
Nice set up Jack. I like the stages of drums you have set up for making compost tea....I wish I had access to seaweed like you do, that stuff is real expensive to buy in concentrate. Ya say yer garden is ready for winter? Did I get that rite? Everything looks nice and healthy. OH ya we call them weeds here to and have lots of verities as well, I spent the day pulling weeds from the edges of the garlic rows. Be glad to send some yer way ifin ya run short.   |
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Post by Rita on May 9, 2010 5:53:59 GMT -6
Nice set up Jack! And WOW what a view you have ... Very Beautiful!! I like how the cow had to get in the shot as well .. almost like Ummm your using my poo for What  I should really go pick up some seaweed from the beach but in this high boat traffic area I am not sure what would be in there .. I am sure a lot of petroleum ect  |
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Post by Penny on May 9, 2010 6:02:16 GMT -6
Thats an incredible space you have there Jack.....wow, and like Rita said, the view is so nice.
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Post by spuds on May 9, 2010 11:13:40 GMT -6
Very very nice Jack,you live in a beautiful place!
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Post by jack on May 11, 2010 2:38:48 GMT -6
Gidday Nice set up Jack. I like the stages of drums you have set up for making compost tea....I wish I had access to seaweed like you do, that stuff is real expensive to buy in concentrate. Ya say yer garden is ready for winter? Did I get that rite? Everything looks nice and healthy. After a bit of rough sea it washes up on the beach and it will take me less than half an hour to go get a drum full. Lucky Eh! And sure as hell I am hoping I have gotten it right this year. We have only been here for just over a couple of years and it's only a matter of months since the garden has been really starting to look good. It was a new garden and grew bloody poorly till the seaweed started to get things going. And yes, at this stage anyway, things are looking really good and healthy. |
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Post by Penny on May 11, 2010 5:10:07 GMT -6
Again, what a great space Jack.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2010 13:38:20 GMT -6
Ya got a nice setup goin on there Jack and it's great that your winters are mild enough to have nice crops year round   A little karma for ya |
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Post by Axeman on May 13, 2010 15:07:03 GMT -6
Very nice setup ya got there Jack. I really like your compost bins, simple but effective. That's something we need to work on here but we won't be gettin much seaweed in Iowa |
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Post by jack on May 14, 2010 2:40:00 GMT -6
Gidday
Methinks there would be a few people more than a bit worried iffin you did get some seaweed was up near your place.
The compost bins are real simple. Just 4 bits of 6x1 nailed to 4 bits of 2x2 7 inches long so that the top of the 2x2 is 1 inch below the top of the 6x1. Then these are just added to or taken off the stack as needed.
Does that make sense?
Oh I forgot, ewe jokers say it the other way round I think, like 1x6 don't you?
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Post by Pharmer Phil on May 14, 2010 4:54:15 GMT -6
Great set up there Jack...wish we could get seaweed here to brew... very nice pics |
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Post by Wrennie on May 14, 2010 6:03:14 GMT -6
I love me a good rutabaga! wiki>The rutabaga, swede (from Swedish turnip), or yellow turnip (Brassica napobrassica, or Brassica napus var. napobrassica, or Brassica napus subsp. rapifera) is a root vegetable that originated as a cross between the cabbage and the turnip. The roots are prepared for food in a variety of ways, and its leaves can also be eaten as a leaf vegetable. Love the compost bins. No seaweed here either.  |
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Post by jerseycub on May 14, 2010 7:19:45 GMT -6
So Jack when I get some fresh sea weed what do I do next. I mean do I have to soak it and rinse it to get the salt out?
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Post by Christy on May 14, 2010 18:41:37 GMT -6
WOW! good lookin garden Jack. Beauitful view!!
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Post by jack on May 15, 2010 4:52:59 GMT -6
Gidday So Jack when I get some fresh sea weed what do I do next. I mean do I have to soak it and rinse it to get the salt out? You don't need to worry about the salt at all because it is mineral salts containing almost every mineral and trace ellement there is. Just don't put it directly onto any good plants. I either mix it into my compost bin. Seaweed actually seems to totally disolve down into nothing so in the compost it needs something to obsorb it all. Or just simply half fill a drum then fill with water and leave it till it disolves. Actually I normally fill the drum but that is too strong to all break down so when I have taken some concentrate out I top it up with water again till it can all disolve. I have been pouring the concentrated stuff straight from the drum onto my garden, then giving it a squirt with the hose to hose it off the plants. Works great and is EZ. |
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Post by jerseycub on May 15, 2010 5:59:05 GMT -6
That sounds easy enough. Thank You.
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Post by Compost Pharmer on May 15, 2010 21:28:33 GMT -6
I don't add the sea weed directly to my garden either. I add it to my compost heaps, as I am turning the piles. Jack is right, it completely breaks down so you don't recognize it. The salt hasn't seemed to negatively effected the plants in the garden. In fact I think it may even help them. I do hot composting, so it breaks down pretty fast.
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Post by jerseycub on May 16, 2010 17:36:06 GMT -6
Ruth and I plan on going surf fishing for strippers at night with my brother so we will be bringing home some seaweed as well. As everyone is suggesting I will just put it in the composter to cook and then add it to the compost pile. Buying maxi crop seaweed for my garden is getting to expensive so Ive decided to try and make my own combination tea and us it for foliar feeding.
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