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shardian:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 02, 2009, 11:19:36 am ---
Dude... is that pic through a weird lens or did you really do all that rebuild work to till a few 10' lines of soil?   :o

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The garden area is roughly 32x10. I tilled it roughly 8" deep, which is a fun venture with a small front tine tiller. I wouldn't call it a huge rebuild job anyways. The whole engine can be torn down in 5 minutes or less. I must have torn down the B&S engine I used for my senior engineering project over 100 times. These things are almost dummy proof in simplicity of design.

Anyways, if you have a better/cheaper/faster method of working ---smurfy--- red clay soil, I'm all ears.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on June 02, 2009, 11:58:15 am ---Anyways, if you have a better/cheaper/faster method of working ---smurfy--- red clay soil, I'm all ears.

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Ew.  How deep is the topsoil?  I didn't hit clay in my yard until well over a foot.

shardian:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 02, 2009, 01:06:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on June 02, 2009, 11:58:15 am ---Anyways, if you have a better/cheaper/faster method of working ---smurfy--- red clay soil, I'm all ears.

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Ew.  How deep is the topsoil?  I didn't hit clay in my yard until well over a foot.

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Pretty much all of it is clay. When I first broke ground out there in the garden, there was maybe 2" of actual top soil due to a garden being there a long time ago (allegedly). Rocks galore too. I add sand and topsoil any time I do planting on my property. We learned that the hard way by killing the first couple plants we tried to plant the 1st year we moved in.

Where many people would dig a small hole and drop a plant in, I have to dig  a hole 4 times the standard size, remove rocks, remove half the bad soil, add in plenty of sand and topsoil, backfill the hole to normal size, then put the plant in. If I don't do all that, I might as well throw the plant in a bucket of water - it will be the same effect.

shardian:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on June 02, 2009, 12:12:54 pm ---I like how the cucumber section is three rows wide.  That must be his wife's section of the garden.

 ;)

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Her get out there and do actual work??  :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

She talks a huge game, but never backs it up.

I'm gonna put some sections of lattice near each row of cucumber mounds to grow vertically. Some are standard cuc's, some are pickling cuc's. I figure she'll talk a big 'canning' game too once harvest time shows up. Considering I'm the only one with canning experience, I will assume I will do 100% of all that also!

ChadTower:

I have a pile about two yards of soil from my yard I need to get rid of... come get it!  :)  Everything and anything grows in my yard like it has mutated.  This time of year I spend a ridiculous amount of time managing the plants.  It's not even elaborately landscaped - they just grow that effin fast.  Anything planted takes instantly and then never goes away.  I have small garden patches from the previous owner I have been trying to kill for 8 years and they still come back strong.  One of those patches I covered with a tarp for 18 months and it all popped right back up the next spring.

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