It's all Jaymies Fault

ali_celt · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:16 pm

Hi everyone.

Sometimes I think the last thing I need is another forum, but me being here is entirely Jaymie's fault.

I kinda 'know' some of you from BYAP when I was there a LOOOOOOONG time ago, and from various other spots around the great interwebs of life.

I have no garden to speak of. I have a lot of dead grass, growing in a good foot and a half of sand over a hardpan clay base.

I have 4 chickens who used to free range until the foxes got wind of them so they are now barricaded into their chicken tractor with enough heavy duty wire to stop a mutant fox from mars getting in.

I have one rainwater tank that is full because I don't use it in the house (spray drift issues) and I have no garden to water.

I have a habit of killing off anything that I grow in pots.

On the up side, in a week or so I am getting a number of large fibreglass pipe offcuts (2 m diameter rounds, fibreglass 2 inches thick, walls about a foot and a half high) and I am DETERMINED that I will create a bunch of rotating wicking-bed style gardens that will NOT die and will grow me some veg. Damn it.

I love to preserve. I have a couple of standard Fowlers units and a pressure canner. A jar collection to rival all jar collections. And I make beer. And wine. Probably to help me through the death of assorted garden plants.

Ali

Jaymie · **Posted:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:47 pm

hahaha!!! good to see you here Ali! You will prevail!

chillidude · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:49 pm

Welcome Ali

Sounds like you have some challenges in front of you with that sort of soil profile - gunna want lots of organic material.

Good to have another home brewer :cheers:

and Vacola user on the site too.

Cheers

Nigel

saul · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:09 pm

This is a Test message. Please ignore.

dufflight · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:21 pm

saul wrote:

This is a Test message. Please ignore.

But what if we can't. :wave:

earthbound · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:41 pm

Some things are hard to ignore.

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