Are we lucky or what?
The cost of compost is quite cheap here and as such is not sterilized or
cooked just mixed and left for the worms and nature with some mechanical
help. Good compost most times.
Have used some local and some of my own compost to grow grape vines, 8
vines, of different sorts.
If you get rotted horse manure next year (rotted being a word that
covers a host of sins) use it to make compost.
We used to have a nice local farmer who used straw to bed the horses down in
and he just piled the old bedding up in one long 25 ton heap so the old end
was about 5 years old.
To all the members of the list,I am new to the list, and new also to the area of biofuels.I hope to receive answers to my following queries.1. How raw vegetable oil (non- edible like Jatropha or Pongamia) can be stored for long time. I heard that these oils cannot be stored for more than a
I have to agree here. I kept an organic lawn for 10 years. I used a mulching
mower to put the clippings back into the lawn and used the mower on its
tallest setting. The rare time I watered (which wasn't often even though I
lived in Dallas with its 100F avg temps in the summer), I watered
Jim, Instead of ammonia, get a pack of chewing tobacco. Soak it in a gallon of water for a day in the sun. Strain the tobacco out and then add the dish soap. Spray it on the buggies. The nicotine is absorbed into the little critters and they die. The plants don't care either way about the stuff. I
Will this kill the bugs busy eating away my
precious grape vines and shade area without harming the vine. That is used
tobacco and some soap liquid mixed with water and pump it from a hand sprayer?
Got sunlight soap here for the dishes, lemon scent even.
Summary.
1/ 1 gallon of water/juice
Maybe out of line/subject here.
Would like to know where to find the Pros and Cons about Silage as an animal
feed in comparison to dry hay and non processed fodder.
Seems some silage makes for a bad smell once the heap is opened, not savory
at all, and yet cows will eat it okay. How does this
lres1 wrote:
Will this kill the bugs busy eating
away my precious grape vines and shade area without harming the vine.
That is used tobacco and some soap liquid mixed with water and pump it
from a hand sprayer? Got sunlight soap here for the dishes, lemon scent
even.
Summary.
Hello Doug
Maybe out of line/subject here.
Why so?
Would like to know where to find the Pros and Cons about Silage as an animal
feed in comparison to dry hay and non processed fodder.
Seems some silage makes for a bad smell once the heap is opened, not savory
at all, and yet cows will eat it
Hello jdnt
how do you tell the difference between soap and unreacted oil.. we
are using used beef tallow for our base stock and having problems
with a third layer forming in our settling tank...we are using the
two stage base base method any help would be great.
What's the titration of the
Will this kill the bugs busy eating away my precious grape vines and
shade area without harming the vine. That is used tobacco and some
soap liquid mixed with water and pump it from a hand sprayer? Got
sunlight soap here for the dishes, lemon scent even.
Summary.
1/ 1 gallon of water/juice
Keith Addison wrote:
Nicotine will kill everything else too, including the bugs that eat
the bugs eating your grapevines. It won't kill the vines though.
Best
Keith
This is why the whole pest management approach is fundamentally
flawed. Plants should be able to tolerate mild
Charles,
I think you would get a split, whether your chemicals were pure or
somewhat contaminated. The problem would be more a matter of achieving a
complete reaction.
i.e. You would get biodiesel, but it might not pass quality tests.
I admit to being as perplexed as you
Jim,
Robert and Keith had a great exchange earlier in the year about
gardening and composting. It really got me going. I've gone back to
vegetables/fruits. Flowers had been taking over.
A neighbor dropped off a load of horse manure just yesterday and
promised another today. I was out
I live in Virginia and my yard is infested with small red bugs - about
the size of a lentil. Any idea what they are?
Or, can someone point to a good resource for looking them up?
robert and benita rabello wrote:
Keith Addison wrote:
Nicotine will kill everything else too, including the
THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
"When someone asked
Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about
his enemies, he replied, 'I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my
friends.' "
- Abraham
Lincoln
Hi Mike;
I taught a course over the weekend at a local organic farm and we built
one of my 90 litre vacuum processors. I would have liked to have a CD
like that to hand out. I couldn't get into process much as it took the
whole weekend for us to build a system. I will teach a second course
Hi
Doug,
I've
used amixture of soap and isopropanol (rubbing alcohol) with good
results. This mixture is a contact poison that only works while wet.
That means you actually have to get the spray on to the beasties and repeated
applications are usually necessary.I would suggest is that you
Mike,
Sounds like 'Red Bugs' or Chiggers to me. We have those here in
South Carolina, too.
Google either for many results.
Red bug bites itch worse than flea or mosquito (skeeter) bites. They
are a mite.
This site has a picture:
Hi Paul,
I come from chigger country and these guys are bigger. Believe me, I
know a chigger! Are there more than one kind of chigger?
-Mike
Paul S Cantrell wrote:
Mike,
Sounds like 'Red Bugs' or Chiggers to me. We have those here in
South Carolina, too.
Google either for many results.
Ha-HAH! Same post, new title. This is a fantastic interview, guys, to
which there has been no response at all~! Read! Or else let's talk about
our lawns. (Lawns are important too, don't get all biofuelly on me..)
Al Gore interview, last month, about his global warming platform and movie.
I
Howdy Mike, I agree. I have lived most of my life in chigger country,
Oklahoma and Arkansas, and the chiggers here are essentially invisible.
nothing but nothing itches more or lasts as long as a chigger bite,
which are invariably in embarassing locations on ones body. It is the
larval
Hi Tom
Right, feel I'm making some progress. After a very cold night (-6C) I
can now see three layers in my 1l test batch of creamy canola if I
shine a light behind it. Bottom layer (20%) is solid and dark redy-
brown (glycerine I hope) then thin layer (5%) what looks like
unreacted oil,
There is an oblique reference to this in the archives. I have just
finished reading the book, and recommend that people put it on their
reading lists. (No time like the present to get on your public
library's waiting list.)
I thoroughly enjoyed the book, even learned a thing or two. I was
Darryl McMahon wrote:
There is an oblique reference to this in the archives. I have just
finished reading the book, and recommend that people put it on their
reading lists. (No time like the present to get on your public
library's waiting list.)
Yes, I think I'm the one who
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