07-17-2024, 01:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-17-2024, 01:41 AM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
do you have any tips or tricks for maintaining yields in the garden without the use of synthetic fertilizers
It’s a long story, but here are a few details along the way:
* I grew up on a dairy farm, all of the manure from the barn was applied to the field crops with a manure spreader.
* I grew vegetables commercially, with cow manure and soil on the mainland.
* Moved to Hawaii, grew herbs commercially, fortunate enough to find a field that had been well fertilized as a former cattle pasture.
* Present day I have raised beds that started as cinder and cinder-soil. I have two ponds and use the sediment and excess floating plants as fertilizer. All of the tree branches, palm fronds, clippings, cuttings, etc from my yard are piled up and eventually used in the garden. I have access to some good dried chicken manure when available.
Is it more work? Yep.
Is it lower carbon? Me and the wheel barrow are most of the transportation energy input.
sent the stock price down for several major solar companies
In early June my First Solar stock topped $300 a share. Bought it 12-15 years ago, watched it sink, then tread water. Finally it’s been climbing and for a moment I thought “sell?”
Coulda shoulda woulda.
Still ahead now, still feel it was a good investment. Charge baby charge.
It’s a long story, but here are a few details along the way:
* I grew up on a dairy farm, all of the manure from the barn was applied to the field crops with a manure spreader.
* I grew vegetables commercially, with cow manure and soil on the mainland.
* Moved to Hawaii, grew herbs commercially, fortunate enough to find a field that had been well fertilized as a former cattle pasture.
* Present day I have raised beds that started as cinder and cinder-soil. I have two ponds and use the sediment and excess floating plants as fertilizer. All of the tree branches, palm fronds, clippings, cuttings, etc from my yard are piled up and eventually used in the garden. I have access to some good dried chicken manure when available.
Is it more work? Yep.
Is it lower carbon? Me and the wheel barrow are most of the transportation energy input.
sent the stock price down for several major solar companies
In early June my First Solar stock topped $300 a share. Bought it 12-15 years ago, watched it sink, then tread water. Finally it’s been climbing and for a moment I thought “sell?”
Coulda shoulda woulda.
Still ahead now, still feel it was a good investment. Charge baby charge.