Thekla McDaniels

Joseph Lofthouse wrote:

mark carter wrote:Takes longer to explain than do.

Yup. Takes about 4 seconds each to plant tomatoes. So a flat of 72 can be planted in less than 5 minutes. Takes longer than that to water them after planting.

Joseph, are you saying you drop the plant down the tube?

What’s the width of the seedling?  Is it round or squarish?

What’s the inside diameter of your planting stick?

And questions for everybody:  how much does the planting stick weigh if it’s steel pipe?

Thanks

Yes, thanks, I DO use the bedding and manure, very much as you describe, Michael.

The question here is what to do with incubated eggs that didn’t hatch, and other questionable eggs.

Yeah, I am growing them, but the OP said she can’t use them because her mother (I think) has an allergy…

My thinking is that aside from a few days of caffeine withdrawal, if this situation came to pass, there would be far more difficult adjustments to make.

Thanks for your thoughts everybody.😊

If I leave whole eggs around, one of my dogs will eat them!  I suspect her of stealing eggs from the nests if and when she can.🤣

I have a guinea hen who has been setting on a raft of eggs for almost 40 days.  Incubation is normally 25-28 days.  I suspect they aren’t going to hatch.  The hen hasn’t abandoned them but eventually she will.  Then what will I do with all those eggs?—— that’s what got me thinking about use as fertilizer/soil amendments.  I expect they won’t smell very good to me which is what gave me the idea of diluting with water.  And then possibly I will soak some fresh wood chips with the liquid to boost their decomposition… which might smell pretty bad to me but not to the dogs, which brings me right back to attracting unwanted wildlife…..

I have a lot of wind, though not as hard as tou, but I find that the wind is hard on the young plants.  I have been trying to think of physical structures that would slow the wind, shelter the plants.  

So far all I have come up with is pallets joined at the edges in zigzag.  And long “berms” of stacked corkwood.  And T posts pounded in and upright poles and branches sort of woven in to parallel horizontal wires attached to the T posts.  I guess a giant brush heap might work.

Sounds about like corvids!

They recognize individual humans, and hold grudges!

Tim, do you add the eggs to your compost whole?  What makes them “bad”?  Are they rotten, or what?

Crows are really smart!  True of all the corvids!  They might just know your compost pile as part of their food route.

I’m thinking of using eggs as “fertilizer”.

I want something to help my plants at the same time I am building soil.

I have seem recommendations to bury a whole egg when you plant a tomato plant, and reasons not to.

I am thinking more along the lines of getting a watering can, breaking and stirring the eggs then diluting with water and pouring onto the ground.  Maybe dry then crunch up the shells, feed them back to the chickens or use in the soil in the no chicken areas.

I’m starting new ground, formerly rabbit hutches and accompanying weeds.  

High desert, alkaline soil, windy. Last year I had sheep on it and big bales of self service alfalfa.  It seems that should have provided some benefit, but things aren’t doing that well.  I left several large clumps of perennial grasses.  Chop and dropped annuals.

The parent material is clay and rock that may be limestone or sandstone.  Varying depths below the surface.  It’s canyon country.  The land that erodes to canyons is beneath a layer of soil.

Has anyone ever experimented with eggs as fertilizer?  And absent experimentation, what are your musings?

Thanks

How would lilacs do there?

And viburnum?