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04-20-2009, 07:00 AM
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Clowns Galore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
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He could use a little hard work. He seems to want to get a "small" farm job this summer. Is he in for a surprise!
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04-20-2009, 06:58 PM
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Clowns Galore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Sedalia, Mo
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Originally Posted by jenglish
We have standing water everytime it rains. This Missouri soil is just clay and water runs off or sits... there is very little soaking in.
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Originally Posted by ScruffyRubicon
The soil is a bit better here than it was in St. Louis. I'm still only about 2 or 3 hours north of you here in Sedalia.
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I dug up a test hole a bit ago with a post hole digger (12" deep)and the soil is great! Very black and silty feeling. It drained about 8 inches of water in about 90 minutes.
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04-21-2009, 12:47 AM
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Ghost of reefers past
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ScruffyRubicon
I dug up a test hole a bit ago with a post hole digger (12" deep)and the soil is great! Very black and silty feeling. It drained about 8 inches of water in about 90 minutes.
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Nice 
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04-23-2009, 05:04 PM
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Clowns Galore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Sedalia, Mo
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First garden is dug and leveled! Pics tomorrow! |
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04-23-2009, 05:07 PM
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Son of Jor El
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Springfield MO
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ScruffyRubicon
I dug up a test hole a bit ago with a post hole digger (12" deep)and the soil is great! Very black and silty feeling. It drained about 8 inches of water in about 90 minutes.
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It may be different there. Here it is clay and rocks the size of your head. I am used to loam soil back home
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Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Well anyway, Brasky decides he's gonna hunt down all four members of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all beg for their lives, except Fleagul.
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04-25-2009, 09:55 AM
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kid impersonator
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: in the cheap seats
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eric, here is the place we use to get our native plants
http://www.prairienursery.com/store/
search for rain garden and they have seed packs
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04-27-2009, 10:29 PM
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80,000+ Christmas Lights
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: South of Boston, MA
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I started a greenhouse instead
I have (3) 55g drums that will save rain water
It was 60's outside, close to 100 in the greenhouse
I've had to vent the greenhouse as it was over 107 at ground level!!
I'm installing a sealed solar heater in the greenhouse in early fall to circulate house air, heat it up, then return the same air to the house
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125g FOWLR, (3) 27w CFL's, 75g + 40g sump
$100 325g ready to go to...just need more house
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04-27-2009, 10:33 PM
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Ghost of reefers past
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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Very Nice Dave
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04-27-2009, 10:43 PM
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Clowns Galore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Cool on the green house!
The rain garden did it's job perfectly today. We had around 3" of rain and it was holding water for absorption up to it's max!
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04-28-2009, 06:48 PM
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Quo vadis, Domini.
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Texas, USA
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Just a suggestion : you might want to put in a bunch of peat and create a bog for carnivorous plants . I'm experimenting this year with a few sunken planters and pitcher plants, venus fly traps , etc.
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05-03-2009, 09:06 PM
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Clowns Galore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Sedalia, Mo
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Originally Posted by Siberman
Just a suggestion : you might want to put in a bunch of peat and create a bog for carnivorous plants . I'm experimenting this year with a few sunken planters and pitcher plants, venus fly traps , etc.
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That might be something to look into. Natural bug control!
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05-03-2009, 09:08 PM
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Clowns Galore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Sedalia, Mo
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I have all the mulch in finally! Now I have one more little item to put in, the stream bed for the sump output. I have to make a channel to get the water off the 5 or so feet of yard to the garden. Hopefully I can find time this week.
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05-11-2009, 09:36 PM
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Clowns Galore!
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Rock is all in now. Didn't get to the pics yet but everything is just like I wanted. Looks like a few of the plants are going to be flowering soon.
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05-11-2009, 11:01 PM
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Son of Jor El
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Springfield MO
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Originally Posted by ScruffyRubicon
That might be something to look into. Natural bug control!
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I don't know that the carniverous plants would handle a MO winter. Peat does have excellent moisture retention though, it could certainly help keep it moist.
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Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Well anyway, Brasky decides he's gonna hunt down all four members of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machete. They all beg for their lives, except Fleagul.
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05-12-2009, 02:19 AM
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Ghost of reefers past
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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Originally Posted by jenglish
I don't know that the carniverous plants would handle a MO winter. Peat does have excellent moisture retention though, it could certainly help keep it moist.
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How bad do MO winters get where you are Jeremy?, We have an area close by athat is a refuge for rare Cobra Lilies in the Eastern Coastal Range
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