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  • South

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    June 22, 2023 at 3:33 pm in reply to: Trouble in the garden

    How did you fill your beds?

    What have you planted in them?

    How much sun does the area get?

    Photos?

    Yes you should be able to still either turn it around or start over. There’s a lot you can still plant right now.

    • This reply was modified 11 months ago by  South.
  • South

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    June 14, 2023 at 3:21 am in reply to: Bio-char!!! The dark underbelly of the garden.

    My peppers this year in beds I mixed biochar into last year. I have never had peppers look like this in June! They are fruiting already.

  • South

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    May 18, 2023 at 1:52 pm in reply to: Comfrey

    If you can’t source any here, I know where you can get some. They only have crowns though. Pm me if you need it.

  • South

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    December 27, 2022 at 3:46 am in reply to: Goats! If A Cow Is Just Too Much

    Yes I raised ADGA purebred Nubians for about 10 years. I then got married and we moved out on 40 acres and I switched gears and got a very high quality Boer buck and I have been breeding towards a goat that can work the land for us and not require all the labor my dairy herd did. In a couple years, they really went from pampered goats to hard workers. They browse almost all their own food and our pyrs do a great job keeping them safe.

    Ultimately, I want a heavy weight of the boers on a taller goat like my Nubians that I can still steal some milk off of if I want to. All of this in an animal that takes as much advantage of the land as possible.

    We have horses, a few cows and goats. The goats are far and away the best users of our land here in the Ozark hills. They continue to find forage in the winter keeping their feed costs easily the lowest of the three.

  • South

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    December 14, 2022 at 9:44 pm in reply to: Where are you buying your seeds?

    Pine tree garden seeds is a good place I never see mentioned. Their prices are good.

  • South

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    December 14, 2022 at 9:32 pm in reply to: What is the best Homesteading fiction book

    One I loved was The Yearling

  • South

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    July 12, 2023 at 3:58 am in reply to: Transplant tomatoes, or start again from suckers?

    I see you are in Arkansas also. Yeah, I say go for it 🙂

  • South

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    July 12, 2023 at 3:57 am in reply to: Transplant tomatoes, or start again from suckers?

    Not sure where you are located but I would say for most of the US it is not too late. I would do it here in north Arkansas. We have 3 months until frost.

  • South

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    May 18, 2023 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Comfrey

    I think you may have to connect with them first? I haven’t done that here yet either.