Plans for the spring?

[gumbogumbo]

What are you all planning for this spring? I'm thinking cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, and strawberries for me. Marigolds to fend away a bug or two. I only container garden, so I have to get myself a decent trellis before the season starts. Maybe this year I'll actually use compost. What about you?

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[tielan]

Oh man, I need more poultry manure (I have two chooks and they do an okay-ish job, but right now I also have an entire woodchip mulch pile decomposing on my lawn).

Unfortunately anyone around here that keeps chooks also keeps the poop for their own gardens. Hm. Although I have a friend with five chooks that might not have a use for the straw bedding of her chooks. I might give her call.

Compost is AMAZING, though, when it comes to getting gardens sprouting...

[cyprinella]

I mean, raising 40 ducks and 20 chickens over the course of six months on a townhouse lot is a quick and easy way to get lots! ;)

(they have since moved onto more appropriately sized pasture and I just have two secret ducks shhhhh)

We also do kitchen scraps and the husband is a big coffee drinker which adds a good amount of N too.

[tielan]

That would indeed be an effective way to get lots of poultry manure! I might start by contacting my friend, though. :D

The kitchen scraps go to the worms or the broader compost, but you've just reminded me to contact the local coffee shops and roasters in the area. I just have to get them to fill up some big buckets with the used grounds...