2 months old already!
beaglesdoitbetter
4 years ago
Time is flying by. Cannot believe Bastian is two months old already and cannot believe what an easy, good baby he has been! Thought it was time to update his Auntie's with his latest pictures.
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LynnNM
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Horse manure 2-3 months old
Comments (15)Pic helps a bunch. Your raised beds look good, and looking at the far one it looks like you used the plastic only on the sides where the wood is. So I don't see a problem with the plastic. You simply have raised beds, not containers. At 8" depth the cardboard is unnecessary. You can just pile the dirt into the beds on the grass, on the grass will be smothered. At 8" in the near term it will limit your root depth, and may cause problems with deeper rooting plants and roots veg's. If it were mine, I'd take it out. With the soil on top of the underlying turf, it will settle over time as the grass underneath decomposes. My experience with St. Augustine is that settling will be ~ 1". With the cardboard the settling will be a bit more, maybe 1.5". Now, the grass -- it looks like you're in Cocoa Beach (zip code), and the turf looks like a very decent stand of St. Augustine. Your problem with the grass won't be the stuff in the beds that gets smothered, it will be the stuff on the outside that comes right up to the edges. It will try to find a way into those beds, and usually St. Augustine is successful (if there's any Bermuda in there it tends to be even more invasive). I would encourage to develop a turf-free zone around those beds. There are many options. On the soil - since you're dealing with uncomposted horse manure, I would suggest no more than 1" of that per bed. Add it on top of a base soil fill in the beds, then mix in in well, trying to get it distributed through the entire 8" depth. The base soil in those beds would ideally be a loam or sandy loam, if you can get it. Being in Cocoa Beach I suspect your base soil is rather sandy. You could use that (if you have some to move) along with some compost and the horse manure, but you'll probably have better luck with bringing in new soil. Check landscape supplies in your yellow pages. Final point - exposure. Don't know when that picture was taken, but the beds are in complete shade. Where do those beds sit relative to the fence -- west side, east side, etc, and what is the direction of the fence line (N/E/S/W)? The good news is you're in the beginning so with just a bit of work you can get it right and enjoy some great growing. Since you are using raw manure I would encourage you to heed to 90/120 day before harvest recommendations. Someone getting sick because you were in a hurry just isn't worth it. Be patient. Since we're already into May, and you're way down there in south FL, your timing is really good for fall planting. This post was edited by TXEB on Sun, May 12, 13 at 15:23...See More1-2 month old seedling already branching?
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Comments (9)Thanks jfcwood. The color and finish are gorgeous. The color is a custom stain that he did for us on-site. We love it. The wood was acclimated for 16 days (wood delivered and set in that exact room on 2 May, he started the install on that room on 18 May; I have all this marked on my calendar). I should say, I am 95% sure it was this wood that was used. Long story short: our installer was going to spike in new flooring in our old wood floor in our kitchen and dining room, but when he started the project, he discovered very shoddy workmanship on the current wood floors we had (T&G going to wrong way, two types of wood used, etc), and urged us to pull up our current wood and install new, vs. refinish it. So that added $$$ and time, and led to a sort of emergency supply of wood that wasn't well acclimated. I think that was only used in the kitchen and dining room though. That's a big part of the reason our budget doubled too. I don't know anything about the moisture readings. :( I had no idea about how risky crawlspaces were for wood floors until two days ago when I started poking around online as to why this could be an issue in this room only. He for sure knew there was a crawlspace, because he was the first installer we got a bid from and was the one who told me how nice it was that we didn't have to put a subfloor over concrete because OF the crawlspace. I feel like I do my research and am borderline anal on these types of things, but I just had no idea of any of this until a few days ago. I ask questions, take notes, research, I try to learn as much as I can about things before I make decisions. I'm just sick about it. It was such a big thing for us. :( Anyway, thanks for the response....See More7 month old Rowenta iron Kaputt already :( !!!
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