Organic gardening 2025

[Marie2020]

Using a reciprocating saw you can cut the nails off and dismantle the pallets and then just start making raised beds. I'm thinking about making some into stair type beds and hexagon. There's a ton of information and videos on how to make raised beds from pallets on YouTube. If you get on Backyard Chickens look up Hugelkultre Raised Beds. The person that started it is @gtaus.

You're welcome. I love knowing that if I have the knowledge that I can pass it on to someone else that can use it for their own things. I know that you can also make outdoor furniture with pallets. My husband's brother left a pallet bench here when he moved to Montana. I'm turning it into either a potting bench or a compost bin. Either way I win.

excellent

 

[akroberts]

Went out and looked at the garden bed but nothing is coming up yet. I want this danged rain to stop so that I can get the rest of the garden going. I want to start my squash and pumpkin seeds because not last year but the year before I found a big bunch of different squash and pumpkin plants coming up. I dug them out and took them to my daughter in law to give to a friend of hers and she let them die. I would really like to get some coming up to dig out for the daughter in laws friend.

 

[digitS']

it's supposed to rain for a week starting tomorrow

That was Friday — three day weeks? And Sunday was Ground Hog's Day so it's patience, patience, patience .

Squash, pumpkins and cucumbers are difficult to move. Transplanting needs to happen earlier than for any other common, garden plants. Great care in handling fragile roots required and then it's just a do-the-best you can process.

For plants with such seed hardiness and robust looking seedlings, they really are fragile. Some new variety of white fruited cucurbit should be named Snowflake.

Steve

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

My aunt, uncle and a cousin lived in Cresent City during the '62 Anchorage Earthquake and Tsunami. The cousin had recently married and moved to a house not far from the harbor. He and his wife were awakened by their house rocking. They waded out the front door after pushing a log away from it. The house was carried some distance and ended up in the pool at "Sea Wonders Alive." They walked some distance to his parents' home. Several people were swept out to sea.

My hubs was born and raised there. He was in 5th grade for the Tsunami in CC. He was amazed and remembers soooo much of the damage and how "wonderful" it was (to a kid)

 

[ducks4you]

Pallets now that's interesting. I have a lot our back and I was thinking of burning them

It is a LOT of sweat equity to take a pallet and make it into something. SOMETIMES, it's best to just burn them.
I burn Any wood with screws or nails in my fire pit, bc I move the ashes to beds where the horses never tread on them.

 

[ducks4you]

Went out and looked at the garden bed but nothing is coming up yet. I want this danged rain to stop so that I can get the rest of the garden going. I want to start my squash and pumpkin seeds because not last year but the year before I found a big bunch of different squash and pumpkin plants coming up. I dug them out and took them to my daughter in law to give to a friend of hers and she let them die. I would really like to get some coming up to dig out for the daughter in laws friend.

I did the same with a neighbor a few years back. I was dividing my tulips in the front beds. I gave her some very nice and large bulbs. She, NOT a gardener, wanted to "force them" and never got around to it, so they dried out and died.
UNLess I transplant them for DD's or my very close friend, who Also gardens, I figure that it's never a good idea to give away any valuable plants.
BTW, my tulips need dividing again this year, so no Real loss for me!