[TheForge] OT: My floor is poured: the saga OT:

[Bruce .]

Admit it, Pete:  You're just afraid that goats would eat up all your iron
scrap, just like they do in the cartoons!

Bruce
NJ

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <
artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:

> Goats wouldn't go well here...It's quite steep and the resulting erosion
> would be disastrous. We are hard up for flat space  and have lots of
> mountain lions around besides. All gardening has to be in raised  hard
> containers or surrounded 360* top and bottom by aviary wire and much of the
> top soil i carried up by the bucketful.
> Besides goats would cut into my treasured junkyard space!
> Jimsonweed...Colorful! Popular with the locals before the Spanish came who
> warned them about it. But didn't caution them that it was the white men
> themselves who would prove fatal.
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
>
> On 10/25/14, 3:54 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote: I envy your
> topsoil Andy.
>
> Get goats.  Bed pen with hay.  Clean in  6 month intervals.  By the time
> you need to clean, the compressed, pee and poo-laden hay is rank.  It is
> heavy.  It is difficult to fork.  But when put into a pile and given a
> couple of months to cook, the result is truly nonpareil.  ANYTHING will
> grow in this.  Unfortunately, that includes the weeds, so you will be very
> busy cultivating.  This year I had three absolutely humongous Jimson weeds
> sprout from the potato beds.  They disgorged tens of thousands of
> scopolamine-laden seeds into ground.  Next year should be interesting.
>
>
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