If you've constructed large pastures with a lot of fencing, you know that erecting a fence can be a difficult and time-consuming task, and you also know that making repairs and keeping your fencing in good shape can be equally challenging.
They started by selecting about six bines, but they have found that selecting only two produces more vegetative growth and a better balance of hops to leaves. “What we have learned is that more is not better,” Paino says.
At 50 inches wide and 102.5 inches long, it will take up less room in the garage, barn or shed (whatever it is you have available), fits on a full-sized pickup truck for easy towing, and easily maneuvers through tight spaces.
Biggest Challenges Weed pressure—the constant concern of every grower, especially in organics, where our best defense against weeds is time and labor. On the business side, bureaucratic red tape and paperwork grow just as quickly and constantly.
As many gardeners do, I have a growing collection of less than beautiful plastic flowerpots. Make sure that the paint will end below the soil line.I was wanting a custom look for this project, but for those who simply want to give the old pots a face-lift,...
They picked about 4,000 pounds at $10 per gallon from the young field. Once you're broken in, you'll have a better understanding of itor how you'll want to expand and can move forward with experience under your belt.
For individuals, it was a record of the various things one pondered and experienced—recipes, quotes, questions, moments of inspiration. Gratitude is an important skill to teach our children, and it is a skill that needs practice to develop—especially...
The organization's co-director, Will Fantle, says there are several reasons to be concerned about weed-control-product suites, like Enlist. The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is considering a petition by Dow Agrosciences to deregulate...
With these holes, you can use hooks, chains, ropes or wires to attach the board to the hitch of your tractor. Fortunately, a simple piece of wood can save the day! By wrestling or rolling heavy objects onto a large, flat piece of wood, you can easily...
Mid-summer sometimes brings an over-grown vegetable garden. But there are also some plants I never deadhead, mostly because I know the songbirds enjoy eating the seeds or because they are plants I want to encourage to re-seed throughout my garden.
So far, my carrots and beets are still wonderful fresh additions to the dinner table. Time of year, I usually have ended my walks out to the garden. I'm sure they are as thrilled as I am to see these plants thriving.
It's like a bookshelf divided into compartments, with each compartment containing materials like bricks, wood, pinecones and hollow natural tubes, such as reeds. Piles Of Small Sticks: Ladybugs Kevin C/Flickr Ladybugs overwinter in leaf and stick deadfall...
They occur mainly during the spring and summer months, most frequently east of the Rocky Mountains. Remove objects from your barnyard and pastures that might become flying debris. But our Port-a-Hut is firmly pinned to the ground so we're safe.
Hopefully you are keeping your pond in good health and can minimize algae's impact, but in case you have a bloom this summer use these tips to stay ahead of the pea soup. Then why on earth do you have impenetrable pea soup!?!?
No baby pumpkins yet though, just male flowers. I admit that I have no idea what I am doing with them in the kitchen so they were nearly too tough to eat. A few of my gardening friends and my mother are all having the same issues this year.
Tea is bursting with anti-oxidants and healthful flavinoids. Study after study has shown tea to be protective against Parkinson's disease, effective at lowering blood pressure, or helpful with losing weight.
Still, that's just half the story for me. I suppose every trade has its tools and every person in the trade has a favorite tool. But even the brightest, cutest plastic instrument couldn't mean much to me.
Actually, I didn't have to do much pulling, because the pups released with a gentle twist. Colors have intensified in the brighter, outdoor light. Most of my bromeliads are epiphytes (air plants) and flourish in my yard where I mount them on cypress knee...
Due to all of the rain, water had seeped in between the concrete and the post, and the mud was holding the post in place with suction like a vacuum. While this works well in many cases, the three-point hitch can be stronger, and there is always the risk...
Those long-awaited harbingers of the spring garden are beginning to make their appearance here at Cottage-in-the-Meadow-Gardens: snowdrops nodding their greetings as I pass by, early species crocuses lifting their tiny yellow chalices in a toast to the...
Follow the application instructions when adding the crystals to your potting mix–more is not better!Don't get overwhelmed by that wonderful abundance of greenery in your winter sowing containers.
By John & Sue Weaver Readily available water is a luxury many of us take for granted on the farm. The simplest of these are shallow-well pump heads like Oasis Pumps' no-frills Model No. W1 and Lehman's cast-iron hand pumps.
Hook a pulley to the roof with a rope through it, and you are able to lift up by pulling down with your full weight. It was a steal … and I walked away. That's the danger of our local summer celebration.
Break up the clumps and separate the bulbs, allowing them to dry out some before storing, usually about a week or two in a cool, dry area.Then, clip off foliage, shake off any remaining soil and pack the bulbs in dry peat moss or wood shavings in a brown...
Even though the flowers are long gone, waiting until foliage is yellow and dying allows the plant to continue to collect solar energy to fuel the next season.Dig around the patch carefully to prevent cutting or damaging the corms.
A few hours after dark came the biggest boom of all. Mom and Dad thought their electricity would be back on soon but boy, were they wrong! « More Mondays with Martok » Part of the great, huge oak that drops our acorns fell on Mom's office and a limb...
With the two properties separated by about 5 miles, I also needed something easy to transport, and in my southeastern corner of Minnesota, also known as “bluff country,” it needed to be able to handle rough, steep terrain.
