Cardboard with 6 inches to 12 inches of wood chips or mulch will work well unless that grass spreads by roots as long as all the grass is covered so it cannot see sunlight.
My biggest misconception was that after talking about this and owning land for over 20 years, building a place to live ... dear hubby just could not adapt and pull the plug on TV ...
Transform that material into hugelkultur, rocket mass heater fuel, mulch (but without a chipper), junk pole fence ...
How do you use brush as mulch without chipping it first?
Are you just using it as mulch for trees? (I have done that.)
Are you using grasses as mulch for smaller growies?
I believe that was explained really well here:
Paul said, Sometimes I want wood to be smaller. Loppers and pruners seem be all I need most of the time. Sometimes I might use a saw.
If I want mulch, I prefer the brushiness of whatever it is. All the branches and twigs help to hold other mulches on the hugelkultur.
Totally wondrous, thanks for sharing those yummy mushrooms, pretty Christmas flowers and that load of wood chips.
I was just looking at Christmas Cactus at the store today. I wish that store would put the flower shop in a location where I see treasures before I pay for the groceries ...
Maybe the reason I did not have problems was that the Bermuda grass was planted after the beds were made and the Bermuda was Coastal Bermuda if that makes a difference, I don't know.
If those beds were planted on top of Bermuda that might make a difference, even if dead.
I am not sure exactly what operations management is because I never worked where that was a thing???
In 2025, I was scheduled to have surgery that was cancel because the hospital could not get IV bags. Was that the problem of Operations Management?
You mention purchasing in small town stores so I want to comment that I always believe in buying local though since the pandemic my small town store have such a limited inventory that they have lost my business.
Erika House wrote:I'm a little unclear on how I plan to do this too. That's what my questions are for/about.
Would it make more sense to do it as walls like a house, or as solid earthbags? Depending on which answer makes more sense, I'd then figure out how many earthbags it would take.
Could the steps be made with earthbags? Would earthbags work to make the steps?
I'm in the very preliminary stage of planning this as I wouldn't be able to start work on it until May at the earliest.
I have read that doing earth bag structure is labor intensive.
For years I have read about earth bag and cob and for many years I wanted to do cob because it is so pretty.
Here is a post where they were doing a double wall earth bag construction so doing a solid earth bag deck might be possible:
Here is a topic about how this has been done by Permaculturist Toby Hemenway:
Rachel said, Permaculturist Toby Hemenway left his rural acreage to move back to the city. Then he wrote a book called "Permaculture City" to show the many benefits that living in the city provides to those with a self-sufficiency mindset.
Jason said, for Ryan Mitchell, Time and time again people geek out over various contraptions for washing your clothes. I’ve seen them all, the plunger looking things, fancy peddle powered spinning ball gyros, and hand crank counter top tumblers. ... You can always spot the people who’ve never actually done it because they talk about washing clothes while true off gridders talk about drying clothes.
If folks are hand washing and hanging clothes out on a drying rack, why is solar needed?
In several of these recipes, our recommended spatchcocking method is used, which guarantees the most evenly cooked meat, the crispest skin, and the quickest cooking time
I am not familiar with this method, what I liked was some of the bold flavors:
Ned Harr wrote:In my opinion, the best possible way to learn DIY electrical is to follow a journeyman* service** electrician around for a couple weeks and learn on the job. After that amount of time as an electrical apprentice, I felt ready to take on a simple side job that would have been equivalent 1.5 points toward Paul's Straw Badge for electrical.
This is great advice.
I would add my suggestion of getting a job that works with electricity. Not necessarily as an electrician.
Dear hubby started out working with Product Refrigeration like the big walkin coolers in grocery store. That is where he learned about electricity as those coolers had to be hooked up to electricity without power cords and outlets,
Air Conditioning might be another place to learn about electricity. I am sure there are many more.
When we built our house, Dear hubby did all the wiring. The property had electricity mounted on a pole. Dear hubby and I pulled the wring from there into the house where there already was a panel. He did not like that panel so we replaced it.
If I had to I might change out a wall outlet or a light switch though that is all I am ever going to do.
I recently watched a show where the guy used youtube videos to install an expensive stainless steel double oven. That was three years ago and they have not had an oven since that one blew up or didn't work.
He and his family were scared to do any more so they hired a profession.
It turns out that the whole house had to be rewired to make it safe which cost him a lot of extra money.
Eric Hanson wrote:Anne-was that picture a video capture from a YouTube video? I am certain that I have seen the casserole lid heater on a YouTube video. And the lid was the work of genius for its pure simplicity. Also, I just love the beauty of that stove.
You could cut it up like you would a chicken then have smaller meal out of the beast, legs, thighs, etc. This could be done before cooking or after cooking.
Make bone broth out of what ever is left over.
At 29 cents a pound I would have bought two turkeys.
