Thread: In the Garden 2016

Anyone put in any thought into or maybe even using a BTE or modified BTE system

Has it worked for you ???

I watched the vids & read the articles out there and it seems to almost too easy


Thoughts Ideas Negatives ?????

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Anyone put in any thought into or maybe even using a BTE or modified BTE system

Has it worked for you ???

I watched the vids & read the articles out there and it seems to almost too easy


Thoughts Ideas Negatives ?????

What's a BTE? Tc

Back to Eden

A system that utilizes Woodchips pretty cool reads and Vids

You can do the searches with just BTE also

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Back to Eden

A system that utilizes Woodchips pretty cool reads and Vids

You can do the searches with just BTE also

Interesting - I hadn't heard of that before. It looks similar in some ways to some of the permaculture techniques that a buddy is hoping to start using this year. The theory seems to me to make a great deal of sense (to me at least), and I'm game for trying anything that keeps things simple, low-maintenance, and pesticide-free. I think I'll give this some thought too. This will be my second growing season in my house, so I don't want to drop the garden ball like I did last year!

Automatic Fertilizer Dispensers were switched on tonight at sunset

Is it normal for Elk and Deer to hang out?

Originally Posted by rolodave

Is it normal for Elk and Deer to hang out?

No - BUT

There are spots that simply attract animals, we just happen to be one of them

There are two separate herds of Elk that visit us, this is the smaller of the two with about 20 members, the larger one has 50-60.
The Whitetail are part of the resident band, we also have a roaming band of Mule Deer that comes through mostly late night.
We have Moose year round

This is even a more Rare Occurrence and I was very lucky to catch it on camera Deer Moose and Elk all in the same shot




Pretty much explains why we HAVE to have fences around the garden too

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Anyone put in any thought into or maybe even using a BTE or modified BTE system

Has it worked for you ???

I watched the vids & read the articles out there and it seems to almost too easy


Thoughts Ideas Negatives ?????

I couldn't get the video to load well so only watched a few minutes but when I was younger we had a sawmill. I was warned about putting to many wood chips/sawdust on the ground to grow things in because as it rotted it took the nitrogen out of the soil. Does this get addressed in the video?

Last weekend and next I am helping a friend boil maple sap into syrup. He built a sugar shack with his neighbor last summer. Lots of fun learning the idiosyncrasies of his new stove. Based on watching the "old" guys of our youth and his experience with building manholes for a living. Maybe these trees aren't a traditional garden but

Back to the traditional garden I have the tobacco plants ordered and have to get off my rear to find some broom corn seed. I have to figure out where to grow enough on my small lot to make a broom! My son who tried gardening in the back corner of my lot wants to give it a go again this year. He didn't listen to me last year but I hope he does at least a little this year after the failures of last. Not that I know everything but I decided to offer what I know and let him fail. If I donate a small patch of my yard for him to dig up and he learns a lesson that is a small price to pay. My apple trees are getting bigger and this is the second year the rabbits didn't kill one. My cactus look terrible but then they always have this time of year.

As you can tell I don't rely on my garden for survival!

I forgot to add that I am going to try raising bees again this year after doing so in my youth. I wish that I could have a hive in town for my garden between the rules and my wife and the neighbor being allergic to them it is not an option. I will put them on my camping land and hope the can pollinate the neighbors gardens there!

I live in a neighborhood too , so not going to happen but my daughter lives in the country and has all the honey we could want, but if I could I would too, Tc