Member BiggKidd
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The clay is going to have to be broken down and mixed with organic material. Whether you do it by hand or with deep root penetration or animals such as pigs or a tractor doesn’t matter it has to have organic material for long term healthy use. Sure you can make clay grow with chemicals but that’s bad on so many levels.
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I don’t know this but it seems to me when you just make a comment on the main page it just adds the text when you make a comment on a forum it loads the page. There is the issue of it not going to the post that needs worked out. That’s my .02 anyway.
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Hi ya,
I’ve been dealing with clay mostly orange / red clay here in VA for 15 years now and I’ve learned a few tricks. Organic material is your new best friend! How you are going to get it is the question. There are lots and lots of ways. But to me free is the best and for free contact your county and local tree services and tell them they can dump loads of tree chips at your place for free. You need a place to let them rot down AKA compost. Next get all the manure of any and all you can. You can also grow organic material and turn it in. If your soil is compacted like most clay is I highly recommend Daikon radishes, buckwheat, clover, alfalfa, hairy vetch, sun hemp, triticale things of that nature interplanted. The first three in that list are almost a MUST have to get clay soil working well.
Check out Gabe Brown’s videos on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gabe+brown+regenerative+farming
Good LUCK
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Please remove me from the drawing there are a lot of people who need this more than I do.
Thank you!
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Thanks! Hopefully I’ll get my sawmill built and get three sides closed in one day. The north side will stay open I think.
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She found it for me, but I will be happy to let everyone know how it does once I find a place to hook it up. She’s only 17 so not much interest in cooking especially on a relic. lol
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Thanks, I think so too. Very thankful my daughter just happened upon it last Saturday.
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The best I’ve ever seen on an antique stove. I don’t think it’s seen much use. Even the ash pan is in perfect condition.
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Might want to do a little research they do best as a cool season crop. I’ve had them grow all winter long and into summer here in VA during mild winters.
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Plant some daikon radishes they will help that drainage issue a lot. Better yet you can probably plant them now where you are.
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Good that you don’t want chemicals, they are no good especially for long term.
For a good start use every resource you have. Trash is your friend, all your cardboard and paper, all leftover food everything that will rot down to compost USE IT ALL. You have got to use the resources you have available or spend a ton of cash. Have the boys pee in the garden and the girls can use a bucket and do the same it all adds up or Dump the pee over the material being composted to speed up the process and it adds Nitrogen. Wood stove ashes are a great add unless you live somewhere with high PH.
Charcoal or bio-char is one of the very best things you can add BUT it HAS to be charged first or it will pull nutrients out instead of putting them in. In my experience a combination of everything yields the best results the fastest. The better you get your ground the better everything you grow will be. The cover crops I mentioned in my first post will do wonders for getting the soil started in the right direction.
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That’s why I have such aggressive tires too!
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Rodger that, I’m here pretty much all the time while my youngest only sleeps here at this point. lol It’s just the two of us living here now.
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Yep same with my golf cart. Wow those tires are even more aggressive than mine!
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Probably be another year before I finish building my pond. I am not fast at anything anymore. lol Trying to build a half acre pond by myself probably wasn’t the brightest move!
I’m trying to find fun things to do that are NOT related to work in anyway.