gift
3D Plans - Pebble Style Rocket Mass Heater
will be released to subscribers in: soon!

Dj Cox

pioneer
+ Follow
since Jun 25, 2019
Merit badge: bb list bbv list
For More
Apples and Likes
Apples
Total received
In last 30 days
0
Forums and Threads

Recent posts by Dj Cox

My tiny house idea is to have the bedroom, office, and clothes in one tiny house and everything else in another one near by. Has anyone covered this idea hear before?

We already have a tiny stand-alone bedroom/office. It is a nicely simple, quiet, and dry room because I’m not adding any water to the room. We have been sharing utilities with the people using our main house, but that’s not working for us anymore.

The alternative we are considering, is whether we just build a new and larger tiny/small house that contains all of those things in one spot.
1 year ago
There are so many tasks to keep us busy as we take care of the animals and plants at our homes. However, sometimes I just want to do some mindless physical activity just for the purpose of burning some energy. Do you do anything like that? Here are some of the tasks I'll do just for fun:

-Hew timbers with an adze or broad axe
-Cut logs with an axe instead of chain saw or hand saw
-Move wheelbarrows of wood chips to the highest part of our property
-Turn the compost pile even though it doesn't need it

In the past, I also use to dig this deep hole trying to find a water line; creatures were starting to fall in there so I filled it back up though.
2 years ago
Nancy, my first concern with using it as mulch is that root-chewing rodents would love it. It would make a nice warm layer for them to be under and the wool would not collapse in on itself so the rodents could have many tunnels. At my own place, the trees that I mulched with straw and rotten hay got hammered by rodents compared to the tree that got woodchips for mulch.
3 years ago
OMG. Thank you, for the heads up about the EDTA.
Paul, I pulled 37 baby slugs off a daikon plant last night. I also have a large patch of it that I think has been acting as a large breeding site for them. The slugs have been migrating from that patch into my young greens. I'm at my wits end on dealing with these slugs. Right now, I have been watering in the evening every other night to help draw them out of the ground and then I hunt them all for about 2 hours in the early night. I'm also using Sluggo. I live in the Pacific Northwest and I just can't catch a break with these things. I'm also putting out fresh crushed greens in the paths to help bait them for easier murdering. I haven't tried placing pots around the young plants yet. I'm hoping that the slugs will be less of a problem next year if I do some serious slug killing in the fall. Otherwise, I might just quit planting annuals all together.
Congrats on getting your new place (even if it's been a year now). I did the same thing as you with the scotch broom. I have a 2 1/2 acre place also. I don't even think of them as a nuisance anymore as I just pull them when I want to use their biomass or plant where they are. I also keep a big patch of them around because my honey bees love them and I have other places that are taking priority to develop first.
3 years ago
Nicole, it's been a while since I've been out there, but what about collecting clay from near moto-trails in capital state forest (Olympia)?
3 years ago
I wonder if the well established root system of the blackberry needs a year to start letting the fine roots break down and free up those nutrients that the raspberry needs.
3 years ago