paul wheaton wrote:
Containers: tell me more about what you have in mind?
Used and old plastic pots—not ideal but I also don’t want to make more garbage when I can still use them. egg cartons, plastic yogurt containers, newspaper cups..
Tell me more about your fencing stuff.
Option 1: Existing chainlink fence on property. Build next to it and use as possible trellis and definitely animal barrier. Option 2: t posts and salvaged chicken wire. Option 3: wattle fence, materials on site in the form of buckthorn trees and saplings/fallen branches and brush piles. I like this idea but I do worry doing wattle+hugul will be pretty time and labor intensive. I’m just unsure if I should go for less cost and more self sufficient vs what people would actually find doable. (Hand digging and wattle fence for a month or two, or just spend 700 on a rental and fencing supplies).
But I am positive anyone near oak woods will have buckthorn or find buckthorn removal parties where they can harvest it. Someone might even pay you to remove some for them.
I think if three people do 1 hour of stuff on the garden, you do need to count that as 3 hours.
My helpers are my kids so I might track but tally it separate.. they are 11 and younger. Bonus! It’s a homeschool curriculum!
Tell me more.
(About Divisions) plants from neighbors garden, raspberry, blackberry, waking onion. Also from my own property its in an unmanaged forest. I have wild aronia, elderberry, black raspberry, mayapple, possibly hazelnut. I’d like to transplant that stuff from the dense wildwoods onthe back of my property to my garden near my house. It’s locally grown and naturally occurring. Bonus it can bring awareness to wild edibles freely available.