Outdoor Garden 2022
The only real spot I have so far because of tall ancient oaks and hickories is about a 10'x15' area that has a giant oak stump about 6' diameter ground down to the previous ground level in the lower right corner. That's the low side, so I am using the upper part by the bird feeder to compost stuff. Lots of bird and squirrel shit in the compost pile
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I'll pull that stuff down to the stump corner and get about a foot of dirt above it when everything's level. All the furry oak branches that fall get stuffed in. I get oak and hickory leaves about 2" thick everywhere but they take a year or more to break down. I have a huge maple that drops the leaves early, and they all got mowed up and dumped in before the other stuff fell.
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The greenage is the buildasoil cover crop blend. I chucked a handfull a few months ago to see if anything would make me some seeds before I chop it. I mowed a strip down to see what happened. I'll definitely be using a cover crop around the garden this time instead of weeding.
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One thng I did for feeding this is get a bag of "deer corn". $5.99 for a 50lb bag of generic seed-corn with no coatings or treatments. I test sprouted a jar full and it had a high germ rate, so I think it is for planting as well as feeders. After about 4 days it has tails and is soft enough for a blender. 2oz of seeds will make a 5-gal bucket worth of food. And you can strain it and feed the pulp to the worms inside or out.