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Forgot all about this thread, I've been growing tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, and more this year. In large containers on my driveway.
I had started many more veggies from seed and wasted a whole bunch of time and effort planting two garden beds and trimming back tree branches early this spring, just to discover (when the all the leaves finally grew in on the trees) that neither bed got nearly enough sunlight to produce anything.
Can't wait to hear back from the lumber guys who are supposed to come buy some of my trees.
If you've got a spare corner you can save for wilding, I'd highly recommend partially burying chunks of wood mixed with leaves to encourage beetles and other burrowers. It'll be good for your garden in the long run to have a diverse bug population.Oh hey, this thread is back.
The lumber guys finally did come and take the trees!
Sold 35 trees, mostly the house where we want to clear a space for gardening and kids to play.
And I have a hell of a mess to clean up!
They only take the parts they want, the long straight trunks good for boards. They leave everything else on the ground.
I'll be cutting firewood for a freakin' year.
Between that and the almost 6 month old baby, I wonder if I'll be doing much of any gardening at all this year.
But I have so many plans for the space behind my house now. It will be a lot of work, but someday I will have a huge garden, and fruit trees, and a chicken coop!
That sounds like a great idea for some downed trees I have down a really steep slope.If you've got a spare corner you can save for wilding, I'd highly recommend partially burying chunks of wood mixed with leaves to encourage beetles and other burrowers. It'll be good for your garden in the long run to have a diverse bug population.
Maybe also stake them into the slope to delay erosion a little longer. Vertical stakes mixed with burried horizontal stacks of wood is a good way to signal to passing creatures that there is more wood buried under the ground. What kind of trees are they?That sounds like a great idea for some downed trees I have down a really steep slope.
A little bit down there is from the loggers, but it's mostly just trees that were broken by high winds.
Getting the wood up the steep hill to the house would be a huge pain in the ass, so burying it for bugs might be the way to go!
Those sound like they'd all do fine. Sappy evergreens are the ones that aren't so great for rotting down. I use some old fir as vertical stepping logs in my flower border because it just takes forever to decay due to the sap.That's also a good idea.
Almost all the trees here are sugar maples, a few giant beech trees by the road, some pignut hickory, and maybe a couple black walnut. And one random flowering dogwood near the house that I assume the previous owners planted.