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6 Oct ’15
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We have many pines, especially white pines. Since we rotate our plantings each season I don't want to make one too acidic...and we have been having good luck. One other thing I do is mix in a bucket of sand from our sand pit. It helps keep drainage good and really helps with the carrots.
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Speedfunk
16 Feb ’16
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Thanks guys, great advice. The plant themselves do great, the pumpkins get about basketball size then they rot out. Do you all prop your pumpkins up on anything to avoid rot where it touches the ground? The ones I did hanging turned out great n looked pretty cool also.
Thanks boys... Appreciate the input.
15 Feb ’12
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Don't let them sit on the ground, a overturned coffee can works great for this
3 Nov ’12
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You can try these too. I've put pumpkins, watermelons and cantaloupes on them to prevent rotting.
http://www.gardeners.....l#start=19
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Gravel Road, K6 Feb ’13
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Gotta lay down round bails out to make raised beds then get some potatoes in them. I think If i can just grow potatoes this year..plus we ordered some blue berry bushes. .....i'd like to also do some sunflowers for the oil mostly. My wife is doing a bunch of varities of stuff...we need a sun room or something to get things started and grow in through winter...hardy greens.
6 Oct ’15
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Hey Speed...I know you have that area over to your East side that is flat...what about putting what dirt you have over there and planting legumes to fix some nitrogen in the soil.
...and don't remember if I told you; take a tub/wheel barrow and head into your woods there and scrape up that good rotted leaf compost on the floor of the woods and mix that in your garden bed...at times I have found good black dirt along rotted deadfalls too.
You can always tool up here with your trailer and get a load of rotted silage!
15 Feb ’12
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groinkick said
You can try these too. I've put pumpkins, watermelons and cantaloupes on them to prevent rotting.http://www.gardeners.....l#start=19
that's pretty slick
3 Nov ’12
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Gravel Road said
Hey Speed...I know you have that area over to your East side that is flat...what about putting what dirt you have over there and planting legumes to fix some nitrogen in the soil....and don't remember if I told you; take a tub/wheel barrow and head into your woods there and scrape up that good rotted leaf compost on the floor of the woods and mix that in your garden bed...at times I have found good black dirt along rotted deadfalls too.
You can always tool up here with your trailer and get a load of rotted silage!
This is the best way to get healthy fungal hyphae and good biodiversity into your garden soil.
Great tip GR!
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