Jp Field

I have old gasoline that I can't use anymore. What could I do with it?

Do you pick a spot to "sacrifice" and dump it there? How do you pick a good spot where it will cause the least trouble?

I was wondering about dumping it on the driveway to kill the driveway weeds.

Is there some way I can restore it? My understanding is that it just gets too moist or something after sitting out all winter and that's why it won't run my weed whacker anymore, is there some way to dry it out?

Wondering what other people have come up with. Thanks.

We have a 25 acre plot. We're next to wetland and a beaver pond, with a forest for about 8 of our acres, with the rest being mostly open field with a few hedgerows. Zone 5ish in Ontario Canada.

We get tremendous wind here, especially in the spring.

It makes it unpleasant to be outside and threatens our greenhouse and infrastructure. I would love to plant some windbreaks. Deciduous trees have no leaves on here at the time when it's most windy, like now in march. But the windbreaks would have to be in areas where I'd much rather have fruit trees.

We also have lots of mosquitoes later in spring and summer. They can really suck too, for us and also they harass the rabbits we keep. It's very puddly, there's puddles everywhere throughout the forest.

So how do I handle it? Do I plant windbreaks and suck up having more mosquitoes? Can I make some windbreaks that don't increase mosquitoes? Like a wall/fence of some sort? How can I reduce the mosquitoes? Any ideas?

I still am buying most of my chicken's food from the store. My very rough math is that it costs me $2 in feed to produce a dozen eggs. That's cheaper than the store. I also sell them for $4 to people.

I am not counting the cost of buying the chickens, coop expenses, or my time. But I'm also not counting the fertility they produce, and that it will be better as the chicken's food forest and other improvements are established.

So just based on feed cost, I am making a bit of money from it plus getting 'free' eggs for my family.

For me I like to weed out plants that visually look like they're competing with a nearby crop, plants that are going to seed soon, or any grasses, from the garden beds.

If a lambsquarters is growing up by an onion, yeah gonna pull it out or the onion will get out competed easily. If it's growing by a kale that's 2 or 3 times bigger, that lambs quarter plant will not harm the kale in my opinion.

All plant roots will make the soil around them a little bit nicer, more wet, fertile, alive. So if you have a weed growing where it's not currently hurting any of your plants, you might as well leave it for later, as a mini cover crop

so far ive had success with seeds sown into a thin layer of compost (1 or 2 inches maybe) with no more than an inch of straw fluffed over them.