http://www.gardeningtrip.com Learn How To Do Gardening The Easy Way Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:00:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There’s a town, not too far away from me, called Satsuma. I thought I’d start off by mentioning that. It’s a pretty lame town, and I guess I don’t really want to talk about it. So. Satsumas are pretty popular in most areas of the country right now, in fact, I ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2011/12/%e2%80%9cwhy-i-am-sad%e2%80%9d-or-%e2%80%9csatsumas-are-nearly-finished%e2%80%9d/ A long time ago we build a brooder box out of 2×2′s and plywood. It was simple; I believe we got the plans from an extension service pamphlet, and it didn’t cost very much to build. We started by using it outdoors;  it had a plywood top with hinges. We build an ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2011/12/deciding-between-a-homemade-and-commercial-brooder-box/ So we’ve been making a pile of chicken feathers for about two years. Yah, out of context it does sound kinda weird. You see, Feather meal is a rather expense, but very good organic fertilizer. It’s like 12-0-0 or something like that (to lazy to Google it, that’s your job now).  My ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2011/12/composted-feathers-for-fertilizer/ It all started two years ago, in the late summer. We have an acre of blueberry plants, and an acre of grass is quite a lot of grass to cut. Especially in the summer, when the bahia grass decides for a few months span to devote it’s energy to taking ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2011/12/my-complicated-relationship-with-geese/   I run into a lot of people lately who are interested in raising their own chickens for meat. I think this trend is really neat, and in this article I will show you how easy it is to get started raising your own broilers! There’s a lot of distrust in industrial ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2011/12/a-brief-no-nonsense-guide-to-raising-meat-chickens-at-home/ …So I took an hour this week to go ahead and a finally make use of those bags of spawn i was sent. I made the outdoor patches near an old oak tree out in our woods. Morels can stand a little bit of filtered sunlight, but I wasn’t taking ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2011/11/morel-patches-finished-2/ So the past few weeks we’ve been working on cross-fencing the property. With several hundred broiler chickens running around, good fencing becomes very crucial to keep out the multitude of foxes, coyotes, dogs, possums, and possibly swamp monsters (you can never completely rule out swamp monsters….anywhere!). Sadly, when we purchased the ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2011/11/putting-up-cross-fencing-2/ I sell free range chicken and mushrooms. To be a little more specific, I sell free range chicken and mushrooms under a magnolia tree.  At the farmer’s market in Covington, La to be exact. It’s a small magnolia tree, but a tree nonetheless. I used to sell under a healthy, vibrant magnolia ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2011/11/magnolia-murder-2/ I honestly can’t remember the last time we have had any rain, and I spent some time thinking about it. We got a little this morning, just enough to wet the ground, really. But I went out to the pasture and noticed it was enough for the ryegrass I planted ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2011/11/finally-some-rain-2/ I recently received a couple of bags of morel spawn from a great mushroom supply company that I frequently purchase from/beg for advice. They have always been very helpful and I was gratified when I was offered a kit of morel spawn for an outdoor patch using instructions for a ... http://www.gardeningtrip.com/2011/11/morel-patch-2/