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5:58 am
August 1, 2011
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Crab Apple
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Post edited 6:00 am – August 1, 2011 by Crab Apple
Justin Case said:
Something to consider is the solar greenhouse as a way to extend the growing season in colder climates. Thermal curtains inside the greenhouse might be a way to keep excessive heat out during the summer months also.
As an enclosed building, a greenhouse might be a good way to keep the larger critters away (although smaller critters such as rats and mice will probably figure out a way to get in because they always do).
A greenhouse banked into a hill will help to maintain a more even temperature. I am considering a greenhouse for construction next year….. along the lines of 12 x14 or so, for starting seedlings and rooting berry bush sprigs growing herbs year round (don't get excited MW  by herbs I mean cooking and medicinal herbals) and maybe wintering over potted plants and my bee hives.
Justin Case, the linked design you posted would be ideal for the back and sides being banked into a hill, with the door being towards the front of one side.
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7:59 am
August 1, 2011
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MW
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(don't get excited MW by herbs I mean cooking and medicinal herbals)
Marijuana is a medicinal herb!
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11:03 pm
August 4, 2011
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appleblossom
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We actually had a much better year with the garden (Crab Apple & I) than last year. Adding the top soil, lime & mushroom soil really made a BIG improvement. You can see the difference in the one quarter of the garden that didn't get as much soil improvements. Next year hopefully the whole garden will be soil enhanced!
I hope to make a lot of Salsa with the tomatoes, green peppers and hot peppers we planted.
Every time we have the vegetables from the garden we have to point out during the meal what all we grew ourselves – a great feeling!
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9:05 am
August 5, 2011
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Jarhead
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Post edited 9:06 am – August 5, 2011 by Jarhead
Glad to hear your garden is doing well. Mine has been going down hill as have my live stock. I had to butcher most of my rabbits , they were dying from the heat. I had fans for them plenty of water and shade but they were still dying. The chickens have dropped their egg production but so far I haven't lost any hens. I did have a feeder pig get caught in the fence and die of heat exhaustion. The pasture for the goats is almost gone. We got the first rain in weeks today…..about .2 of an inch. The temperature was 106 yesterday. All in all, not a good year. The one good thing is that it has awakened me to the dangers of depending on substance farming. To much depends on the whelms of mother nature to bet your life on it.
Think I'll go buy some more LTS right now.
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3:00 pm
September 11, 2011
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Boru
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Our meager city garden has produced a bumber crop of cucumbers, anaheim peppers, and sweet basil. Tomatoes and zuchinni have been sparse, still waiting on jalapenos. Admittedly we planted late, but it's looking like an indian summer here so maybe we'll get a late harvest. It's not subsistance gardening for sure, but we do use every last bit of what we grow.
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11:00 am
September 21, 2011
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Crab Apple
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The Garden didn't finish as well as it started… we would be hungry and eating acorns if we were on our own.
This morning Mrs. Crabby told me our son woke her during the night and thought something was outside …. and her course of action was to go back to sleep ( she was up late polyethylening a room).
The something my son heard was a bear eating 2 rabbits and 2 beehives and really crushing a few rabbit cages….. GRRRRRRR. I guess we will be keeping the dog outside from now on.
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2:47 pm
September 21, 2011
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pm97
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What is polyethylening a room?
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4:16 pm
September 21, 2011
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Pete
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Crab Apple said:
The Garden didn't finish as well as it started… we would be hungry and eating acorns if we were on our own.
This morning Mrs. Crabby told me our son woke her during the night and thought something was outside …. and her course of action was to go back to sleep ( she was up late polyethylening a room).
The something my son heard was a bear eating 2 rabbits and 2 beehives and really crushing a few rabbit cages….. GRRRRRRR. I guess we will be keeping the dog outside from now on.
Now, how in the hell do you prepare for that?!! My dogs bark at everything, so we now keep them in the house at night (so stupid). Anyway, I tore down my 4 raised garden beds: they were 3 boards high but the soil wasn't mixed well with the amendments so nothing grew well at all; so not only am I tearing them down to remix but instead of having 4 smaller beds, I'm going to have one big one (60 x 30 to start and only 2 boards high) and then a bunch of container gardening for tomatoes and such. All this will fit in well inside the deer fence but not too sure it's going to keep out bears  (doesn't Sourdough eat these things?).
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5:40 pm
September 21, 2011
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Jarhead
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Post edited 5:41 pm – September 21, 2011 by Jarhead
Crab Apple said:
The Garden didn't finish as well as it started… we would be hungry and eating acorns if we were on our own.
This morning Mrs. Crabby told me our son woke her during the night and thought something was outside …. and her course of action was to go back to sleep ( she was up late polyethylening a room).
The something my son heard was a bear eating 2 rabbits and 2 beehives and really crushing a few rabbit cages….. GRRRRRRR. I guess we will be keeping the dog outside from now on.
Are you allowed to shoot nuisance bears?
My garden didn't do well either, semi drought and more grass hoppers than I've ever seen.
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" When a well packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and it's speaker a raving lunatic." Dresden James
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9:16 pm
September 21, 2011
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Crab Apple
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OPPPS I meant she was polyurethane-ing a room…. my daughter-in-law is coming to visit for about 2 weeks and I did a little construction in the room she will be using. I have a log cabin and my interior walls are sheathed in 1x6 tongue n groove to better match the exterior walls. She was "painting" the walls and door I made around a bathroom area in a room designed for my invalid Mother-in-law.
As far as nuisance bears I think I can actually get some reimbursement from my state for first time damage ….. I am looking into that. If it were after SHTF someone would have eaten the bear allready or my night watch would have gotten it….. but for now I will install an electric fence with bacon hung on the wire … a friend says that worked for him (zaps the bear on the nose or tongue). As far as shooting the critter it is strictly an SSS (Shoot Shovel Shut-up) deal in these parts or more correctly SES (Shoot Eat Shut-up).
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