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Home Garden Thread


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2022 Jul 30, 6:33pm   8,334 views  99 comments

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How many of you all have gardens at home? We have a planter box with some tomatoes, arugula, peppers, and random other things that sprout from the compost we add. We compost the scraps from everything edible, and that seems to include a lot of seeds. Even parts of potatoes have grown into full potato plants. We got a few beets somehow as well.

We used to have chickens and enjoyed their eggs, but the need to let them out and put them in again each day makes it hard to go on vacations.



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92   WookieMan   2024 Mar 29, 8:50am  

Patrick says

RWSGFY says


Carbon footprint of homegrown food


Carbon shmarbon.

Carbon is a trace element. I worry more about an ice age than anything. Warming would open up vast swaths of land that could grow enormous amounts of food that already is unpopulated, as in unusable land currently. Warming would be good.

The rise in temperature would be trivial in places that already grow crops. I'm in the 10# camp on this, we have gravity and the oceans don't have a pool liner. The crust is porous at the ocean floor. Added water from ice is added pressure and is pushed into the crust. Was just down in FL and nothing has changed water level wise since I was 5 about 35 years ago. Zilch. We're talking hurricanes and barrier islands that are basically sand bars above sea level. According the climate idiots these islands should be gone by now. They're not.
99   krc   2024 May 2, 8:17pm  

Patrick says

it's work to put them in the coop each night

Automatic door opener with a light sensor. Opens up a couple of hours after sun up, closes at dark.
There are several kits out there and pretty easy to install.

Still - can be a hassle. Had to put a fence around garden to keep chickens out, and another one because they
got into the main back yard and were pooping on the pool deck. Then you need to build a run, with a coop for laying
inside as well... And... And... LOL

Plus where there are chicken coops there are rats.

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