Breaking New Ground

[so lucky]

@so lucky probably should but don't keep track who is organic vs. Non-GMO, vs all chemicals are good crowds.

I know from experience how impossible it is to stop grass from taking over a garden when starting from scratch. I'd rather have clean garden with use of chemicals I consider safer than detergent. Even killing the grasses, all gardens will still have weeds-which are a plant in wrong place.

Some consider dandelions a good thing. To me, noxious weed.

Look out, seedcorn, you may have Bay on your case if you disrespect dandelions!

 

[seedcorn]

I'm safe as she's too busy with new house and sick. By the time she gets healthy, this thread will be buried..... Plus I'm thousands of miles away!

 

[baymule]

I'm safe as she's too busy with new house and sick. By the time she gets healthy, this thread will be buried..... Plus I'm thousands of miles away!

But I am watching you!!!!

 

[baymule]

Haha, @so lucky and @seedcorn I already scattered a quart zip loc baggie of dandelion seeds on the new place!

So lucky, too bad you can't just fence it off good, plant it thickly in turnips and radishes and turn a couple of feeder pigs out in it. They would dig up the root vegetables and all the weeds too. After a summer of being plowed by pigs, that garden space would be ready for a good thick mulch for the winter and ready to plant the next spring. And you would have meat in the freezer! Hmmmm....... I might need to take my own advice!

 

[canesisters]

The key there is 'fence it off good' ...

 

[baymule]

The key there is 'fence it off good' ...

Hot wire run along the inside..... ZAP!! PIGGY!!!! ZAP!!!

 

[thistlebloom]

I LOVE hot wire.

 

[bobm]

Hot wire run along the inside..... ZAP!! PIGGY!!!! ZAP!!!

Mud covered piggy backs into hot wire... ZAP !!! OOOOOOOOOHH!! AAAAAHH !! a little to the left AAAAAAAAHHH !!!! I had a yearling filly that just LOVED to have a good ZAP on her posterior several times a day ... every day !

 

[thistlebloom]

Our new neighbors, a cute young couple, bought a pair of piglets to raise for meat.
I saw the pen they made and suggested they run some hotwire around the inside....don't think they did because the wife can be heard chasing them through the woods regularly. I hope they are in the freezer before I put in my front garden.