DAPNET Forums Archive › Forums › Sustainable Living and Land use › Sustainable Farming › Planting Season
- This topic has 6 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 15 years, 7 months ago by
near horse.
- AuthorPosts
- April 23, 2009 at 4:27 pm #40479
Andre
ParticipantIts planting season again! Barn Swallows are back!
April 23, 2009 at 6:12 pm #51906john plowden
ParticipantBlack flies are gonna be here soon!
April 24, 2009 at 1:41 am #51908jen judkins
Participant@john plowden 8241 wrote:
Black flies are gonna be here soon!
Buzz killer :p
April 24, 2009 at 2:25 pm #51905Howie
ParticipantI have three bat houses, sixteen houses for the tree swallows and blue birds and a lot of barn swallows. Bring on the black flies and mosquitos, they make good feed and I see very few of them.
April 24, 2009 at 2:28 pm #51909near horse
ParticipantBlack flies have a purpose too but not what you may think. They help us appreciate cold miserable weather.
April 24, 2009 at 4:45 pm #51907Participantyes – and help feed the barn swallows
April 30, 2009 at 12:04 pm #51904Gabe Ayers
KeymasterWell, I know this isn’t a big deal, but we put our old garden into the fallow part of it’s rotation yesterday, just in front of the rain. Having hauled literally tons of food out of this garden, there was something special about planting it into oats, grass and legumes for a few years resting time. It now becomes part of the stallions paddock again (mid season) and will one day be the main garden again. It was just really hard to give it up as a convenient garden spot between the house and barn, which keeps the deer out of it mostly, but this is what’s needed to exhaust the weed seeds on the surface and give it time to build itself back up as sod.
Now it is on to working the new garden spot, that was once the old spot and into the fields for reseeding and some commercial veggies too.
Hope everyone is finding the seed they need and the energy and inspiration to plant plenty this spring.
- AuthorPosts
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.