50% rabbit manure, 50% clay
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Comments (5)Well, I'll tell you what. One of my best garden years was when I got a 5 gal bucket of rabbit poop/urine/bedding about once a month. I had bags of leaves from the neighbors, and UCGs from the store I wasworking at!! I had a steaming HOT couple of piles that year without doing much work! Just forked everything on each bed and tilled it in! This year my compost bin is sitting on the bed that will not be planted for the winter. Hopefully, I'll have enough compost to just rake it out in the spring! Then I'll do it again next year on another bed! I found out a neighbor raises rabbits and am going to talk to her about getting a bucket every once in awhile! In the past, I've put straight bunny poo straight in the garden and have never been sick! Maybe good luck? I don't know! Happy Gardening! Nancy...See More50 containers.
Comments (34)I'm not making any promises to keep it under 200 containers mainly because I never found time to sow a lot of the newbie seeds I got from all of the wonderful folks on this forum. I tried a number of new things that I'm not all that impressed with so I won't bother with those again. I want lots more of what's on Token's & Pam's lists plus/including: Columbine Tall phlox Coreopsis Rudbeckia Echinacea Hollyhocks Hibiscus Monarda Dianthus Gaillardia Lobelia Ornamental grass Blackberry lily I'm right there with you Token--if it doesn't thrive on neglect, it doesn't belong in my garden. The plant nannies have helped a few WS seedlings survive the drought but I want plants that can handle either bone dry or sopping wet soil. There's good drainage here so nothing sits in standing water even in monsoon season. I WS chelone/turtlehead this year and planted some good-sized, healthy seedlings last weekend. They won't get any supplemental moisture beyond what Mother Nature provides where they're planted so we'll see how they do next season. I'm trying to keep my list of "must haves" in check and only allow 5 containers of each. It's going to be close....See MoreRabbit Manure - Tampa or St. Pete?
Comments (50)Tina, This problem is always possible for ANY crops hugging the ground when ANY animal fertilizer is used, bacteria freely colonize soil.... If you have concerns about appropriately washing your root crops, leafy edibles or ground bearing veggies/fruit I would not use ANY animal fertilizer on crops not kept well off the ground. Tom...See MoreCity offering 50/50 on tree planting
Comments (37)loris and garden4wildlife, I've bought alot of things from Forest farm. I've always been satistified with my plants. I guess I didn't pay that much attention to what all they sell. I've always looked for the native stuff or viburnams. I can't remember now how I stumbled upon Possibility Place, but I do have it bookmarked. It's pretty far from me, I can't tell from the directions, but it looks like north of Chicago. Would be a nice drive...I don't like how they sell items. Meaning, you order in the spring and pick it up (I was not aware they did mailorder?). It's not your typical nursery, where you can go and look, pick out what you like the best (which plant looks the best) and go from there. There's another nursery, the kind where you look around and pick out what you like, that's in St. Charles. Again, the Chicago area, but I like the set-up better. I realize you can't do that with forest farm, but I've always been happy with what they sent me. G4W, you do make a very valid point of them selling exotics and invasives. I'm thinking in my head, not really trying to excuse them, but do you think they sell the invasive stuff because it's not invasive in some areas? Pipe dream? I like to give people the benefit of the doubt....:) I've seen nurseries around here that sell barberry, porcelian vine, hall's honeysuckle (and lots of other jap honeysuckles), english ivy...you get the picture. Somebody sold privet and purple loosestrife, because I've got them here! Loosestrife is coming out....I've got monarchs and some other butterfly/moths that are attracted to it...if I pull it up now, I won't have them...I know, I know....pretty stupid of me. The yard here was not taken care of at all, and if this thing reseeded, I'd have them all over. I was told it was sterile. Yes? Gosh I hope so....it's hard starting over and not having flowers or shrubs big enough to bring in any wildlife...do I make sense? The privets also will come out when the other stuff gets bigger...or should I do it now? Again thinking in my head...I'd love them gone now and the 4 we took out were really easy to pull/dig up. Same with the spireas....I want them gone soon..I've got 2 vib. ready to plant. What kills me is I can't find the "weed" plants...sneezeweed, butterfly weed, ironweed, the straight joe pye weed...I bought a joe pye, even though he's not the "wild" one. Maybe he'll revert like the chocolate one I had years ago did?..... I'm getting a personal tour of a greenhouse and the main headquarters building in a couple weeks (burbs of Chicago). I'm going to ask opinons on coffeetree or tulip tree....I've been wanting both....had tulip tree in TN, planned on getting coffeetree....boy I ramble....lol...not feeling good today....:)...See Morecalifornian
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