Greg 9 to 10 pounds of calcitic lime is not going to do a darn thing for your soil PH. Your soil test report will indicate the lime requirement in pounds of PURE calcium carbonate per 1000 square feet. Since the liming product that you use is not pure calcium carbonate, you will have to calculate how much product to apply. To do this, first find the number on the bag label which is called the CALCIUM CARBONATE EQUIVALENT - it will be stated as a percentage. Next find the liming requirement stated in the soil test report. Using these two numbers, perform the following calculation: FROM SOIL TEST X 100 = AMOUNT OF PRODUCT1000 SQUARE FEET If the amount exceeds 50 lbs/Kft2 divide into two applications at two different times in the year. So 9 or 10 pounds of Calcitic lime would only be about 6% of what is actually needed. Calcitic lime is not pure CALCIUM CARBONATE. Your test told you need 136 lbs/Kft2 of pure Calcium Carbonate. To determine which lime to use the answer lies in the calcium to magnesium ratio. If your Calcium is LESS THAN 7 times your Magnesium you need to use Calcitic lime. Otherwise use Dolomitic

Hi Tim, I liked your posting, you sound like an all or nothing kind of guy! One thing that I sell at the market, that no one here has mentioned (that I saw), is goat milk soap. Mine was made from a glycerin base that I bought, but then added my own goat's milk to it as well as herbs that I grew from my garden. They were a pretty big seller, and I sold the large bars for 4.00 ea. Most days, I made more money from soap than produce! I also had pictures of my goats with a blurb about how it is great for your skin because of the high fat content in the milk, and no detergents. As far as the egg question goes, yeah, you won't get rich on the sales, but they do sell and people up here will pay 2-2.50 doz. for them. This year I will charge 2.50 because the grain is now about 10$ per 50# bag!! You do need to like chickens, which you do, so you will get enjoyment from them and have the fresh eggs for yourself and your fiancee as well. IN NH, if we sell them as "not sized", we don't have to grade them, but we do need to make sure that they are kept refrigerated until they are sold. We just can't say that they're grade A or charge different prices for different sizes. It sounds like you are going to be the hit of the market this year. If you're up against grizzly old men with dirty pick ups full of yams and oversized zuchini's, all you need to do is have a table with a decent selection of produce and a few unique things, they'll be flocking to your booth!! Maybe your fiancee can make some soaps or some beaded jewelry as something different. Will she want to go with you to the market to sell??

Thanks Chad Yea,I think there is a basketball under the trunk of the Washy.(-; The Agaves are really amazing,I think the last time I counted the A.Havardiana had put out 12 leaves and that may have been a month ago. The center of it is like a telephone pole its so thick.

Thank you very much, Kris. I've had some health problems, but they haven't caused more than minor reductions in what I can do, and thankful every day for that. Good genes, I think. Started to smoke at 15, after a few months liked neither the taste nor the cost - so had sense enough to quit. Daughter, who has dual citizenship, her mother being from Iowa, has spent most of the last 20 years or so in the U.S., most of it in Phoenix, recently moved to the Atlanta area, her husband being from there. She comes up for a few days every few years and said summer of '18 that they'd have to celebrate my 90th during her trip up in Aug.: flew me to Phoenix for my 8oth, ten years ago. At the party, when I said that I'd been rather worried after the announcement, as birthday wasn't till Jan, so figured I didn't dare die in between, or wouldn't be keeping up my end of the bargain, there was some laughter. The old guys at the village church that I attend had a group called "Senior Mens' Coffee Hour" on Thursday mornings, that they renamed the "ROMEOs", as in "Retired Old Men Eating Out", (and wouldn't touch my suggestion that it should be"ROMDOs", as in "Retired Old Men Drinking Out" with a 10-foot pole) give each guy with a birthday that month a cupcake with a candle on top at the meeting. I hold mine at arm's length: if I blow it out, called "blowhard", if not, "bit off more than you could chew, huh?", and laughter whichever way. When the cake came out at the party, the numbers were facing me, but the cameras were on the other side. I was holding the cake at arm's length, and turned it around to have the numbers "89.5" facing the cameras ... ... and gave a sigh of relief: happy to be off the hook! Hope you're having aq good year. I spend uite a bi of time over on Kitchen Table. ole joyful