Second strike of the carbonaceous bandit
Farmer Sam and I went out tonight. We went out afternightfall to check on the leaves that got gathered today. Partly to add a touch of shadiness to our operation and partly because they had to take a big detour coming home.
Tonight's haul:
Fifteen giant bags of leaves! Well, ten giant ones (about 1.5-2x the size of our paper bags) and five regular size leaf bags. The smaller bags are heavier though, which leads me to believe that they contain more acorns. That's fine though, we can work with acorns in our leaves. They'll compost fine.
If we keep getting this many, we may end up mulching with them. Our need for wood chips is increasing in urgency, with the remainder of our current projects heavily depending on them.
Can't mulch beds or paths without wood chips. Can't fill swales and ditches without wood chips. Can't build up soil on top of the hugel bed without dirt from the swales and ditches. I've reached a stalling point, and I need to find wood chips.
That is the goal this week: obtain at least one load of wood chips. And mow.
What are y'all's goals this week? I'd like to hear!
Are the leaves in the plastic bags really dry? Because we store any leaves we get in our 150 yr old tobacco shed, we have to be sure they are bone dry. We've found if people put leaves in plastic, they are often wet. Very nasty by spring time, when they thaw out.... We're afraid of spontaneous combustion. This town looses a barn every few years to it...
So if people have used plastic, we spread those first in the early winter.
Ooh, that's a really valid question. I may do well to transfer them all to paper bags, huh?
I saw someone, on a video I think, actually using them to cultivate fungus in plastic bags by pouring water in with the leaves and letting them set. With all I'm reading and learning about fungi, I may try that with a couple bags and leave them in the plastic. I'll have to look that video up again.
If they are wet, it would not serve to transfer them to paper. They need to be dry before going into any bag. But growing fungus or using them as mulch is an option...
Awesome, we'll save these ones specifically for that purpose then. The ones in the bigger bags felt quite dry, so we'll try and keep them that way. The others feel more suitable for mulch. I'll set them in a safe corner if I can think of one.
Ok so now u r that officially that person who people see taking stuff and think well they're a little bit strange. Haha. But we all know better xx
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If permaculture is strange, I don't wanna be normal! 😂
I'm about to put up a sign in my yard that says "dump wood chips here!" And one that says "dump topsoil here!" And one that says "dump leaves here!" I'll take it all lol next year, I'll have two foot deep compost and worms that'll put y'all's gippsland worms to shame ;)
yeeewaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
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Have you seen any of those things? Are they common there? What do they eat?
Whaaaaattt????
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Y'all's giant Australian worms. The ones that get to be 22 feet long.
Oh sorry lost the thread!!! No but I have been to the worm museum that provides info and history on them, which is inside a giant worm lol
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Not common and only in that one area!!!!!
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I wonder why. Looks like I have some reading to do. :)
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