MAY 24 09

Corn is starting to come up

garden #2

MAY 20 09

Put grass on soil to prevent water evaporation

MAY 29 09

Spuds growing

Planted Garden seeing that these aredoing so good.

Spuds

Planted 6 Rows of potatoes, 5 red and 1 Russets .

Spuds

showing sprouts they have been in this pot for 4 months.

Spuds

Showing sprouts in the middle of February.

Closer view

I willl take a better pic. tomorrow

Lid open

This is a safety feature. the other method is to put a stick or something under the lid to holed it open. Knowing MURPHY'S LAW, Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. That stick will fall out and hurt someone, me.

2 Pulley sys.

lid closed

3 pully sys.

will be done shortly

Heating Manure

Fluff

This Video is of dried Horse Manure. Drying 1 1/2 5 gal. buckets of manure took 2 hour and 30 minuts and never exceeded 110 deg F.

Horse Dung

1 1/2 5 gal. buckets of horse dung not dried just tumbled till it was smaller pieces.

Horse Manure

5 each 5 gal. buckets of manure 2 more in mixer.

Garden #1

This is my first garden. It was a pit with a lot of trash in it and a big pile of ashes. so after 7 years and about 20 yards of compost added, its still my best garden.
This garden is 50' X 55' feet.

Garden #2

Still some cleaning up to do. Snap beans are still up because it contains some seed stock for next years planting or this years planting (2009).

This garden is 35 X 45 feet

Garden #3

Tilled and added some Chicken, Turkey and Horse manure to this garden.

This garden is 18 X 35 feet.

Garden #4

Tilled for start of 2009 Season.

This garden is 31 X 45 feet.