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Got it plumbed, taped, tested, mulched, and ready for plants and only checks bare wrist three weeks left til Frost Date.
Hugel got the same treatment, but I was a bit shy on the mulch. I usually use crushed leaves from my backyard for this, but I didn't have near enough to do everything I'm laying down. This Fall I'm definitely gonna drive through the neighborhood snatching the leaf bags folks put out.
Suckers. Just giving away free brown
whos bodies did you burry?
Lol, my one neighbor said never saw the bodies go in (it was a hole in the ground for about two weeks). I just told him he didn't stay up late enough
Great distro /linuxjoke
I run Squash Arch btw
You know, you can probably just go to the transfer station where they collect the yard waste and take as much as you want, instead of taking bags off the street one at a time.
Our town dumps (fairly) finished compost in the corner of one of our park's parking lot. The stuff is convenient, but absolutely full of all kinds of seeds. Grabbing leaf bags during leaf season, especially after watching people take them, is somewhat tempting.
The county I live in takes it to a station and turns it into compost, bags it, and resells it. It's pretty good stuff, too, but I need it a little less along for mulch.
Plus, why would I give up the opportunity to pretend I'm a pirate?
The squash arch is an interesting idea. Now I just need to figure out where to put one in my garden.
Going vertical saves a ton of space and makes harvest easy. Squash, gords, pumpkins, cucumbers, beans, peas will happily grow up if you get the right varieties. Trombettas make a decent zucchini substitute, have a very amusing shape, and climb/grow like crazy.
TIL about trombettas...
https://www.fairfaxgardening.org/wp-content/webdocs/pdf/TrombettaSquash.pdf
They're easy to grow, pretty tasty, and there's nothing walking under an arch of them dangling for a bit of amusement.
I pulled my inspiration from Self-Sufficient Me. Love Mark's huge tunnels. The excuse you can use is "it saves so much space!"
“it saves so much space!”
This maaay work with my wife.
Have you done a metal arc before? The only thing that's keeping me away is having to get all the dead stuff off at the end of the season. On the other hand, I'm getting tired of having to replace all my twine every year and don't want to go plastic.
Nope. First swing at it. I'm already pulling a lot of vines at the end of the year and I've been using the thin gauge wire trellises until now. I'm hoping something with less give will be easier to clean
The Hugel with just a little cheek showing