paul wheaton wrote:what have i left out?
William Schlegel wrote:"all of this is completed without imports (except seeds) from more than 500 feet away" Here is a quote from the second badge level. To do the second badge level with this requirement on my current property I would need to plant some poplars where I plan to do a future Hugel and wait! Or do it somewhere else.
Zone 5b/6a, alkaline soil, 12 inches of water per year. For now the goal is a water independent urban homestead with edible landscaping and food forest.
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Mike Jay wrote:That's where the PEL program could take over. Or the PEM program. That is, Lauren's version or Mike's version. Lauren's might be specifically for conditions in her area of Utah. Mine might be a really good program for cold forested areas. Mine wouldn't have any excavator use in it (since I don't have one) but it might focus more on things like cordwood construction, foraging, maple syrup, etc.
Zone 5b/6a, alkaline soil, 12 inches of water per year. For now the goal is a water independent urban homestead with edible landscaping and food forest.
paul wheaton wrote:
- at least three sunchokes
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Trace Oswald wrote:
paul wheaton wrote:
- at least three sunchokes
I think anyone that builds a hugelkultur with at least three sunchokes is soon going to have a hugelkultur with a monocrop of sunchokes :)
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Trace Oswald wrote:
paul wheaton wrote:
- at least three sunchokes
I think anyone that builds a hugelkultur with at least three sunchokes is soon going to have a hugelkultur with a monocrop of sunchokes :)
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Trace Oswald wrote:
paul wheaton wrote:
- at least three sunchokes
I think anyone that builds a hugelkultur with at least three sunchokes is soon going to have a hugelkultur with a monocrop of sunchokes :)
;-) Maybe not: If you have deer, they seem to relish the young sunchoke sprouts like I relish asparagus. I once [only once] had the great idea of growing Jerusalem artichoke in my garden. Thank goodness my soil is super sandy or I would still be chasing them outa there! It took me 3 years of really going after them to remove them from my garden.
But I really like sunchokes, so I planted them outside of the garden, thinking I could make a hedge of them on the west side of the orchard. Since they are in the sunflower family, I was dreaming that my bees would have sunchoke blossoms to work. The deer discovered the nascent hedge and they went methodically north to south and ate them all up. Later, they came back [the sunchokes] ...but so did the deer. The sunchokes eventually lost. :-(
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Well done Mike. I certify this badge.
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Rosie Carducci wrote:What about starting fruit/nut/soil-building trees/shrubs from cuttings? I just started 51 fruit tree cuttings. It'll be a few weeks before I know how many of them "took", but already quite a few are showing new growth, and at least one already had a small root on it when I potted it up.
For Texas, Texas mountain laurel, Texas redbud, and retama (palo verde) are good, native leguminous trees. I would like to propose a Texas version (maybe more than one--we have seven different climates in Texas) that includes growing one of those three, either from cuttings or seeds (Texas mountain laurel, in particular, is very slow-growing). I hesitate to include mesquite because of its invasiveness.
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what have i left out?
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Mike Haasl wrote:
As bad luck would have it, we happened to look at the gardening badge today. Paul's non-exact words were something along the lines of "I like the simplicity of the current Gardening badge".
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