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Day: April 5, 2025
Installing bug netting and shade cloth to try to stop spring veg from bolting
The spring season is usually a roller coaster for us in SC, zone 7A-8B… the temps are low, then high, then low, then high.
The past few years I haven’t been able to harvest my brassicas because it gets too hot and the veggies all bolt (flower and go to seed).
There’s not a lot we can do to stop it, since it is based on the weather and plant DNA, but we can try to delay it a tad. So let’s build a protective garden cover with bug netting for the incoming white spring cabbage moths, and shade cloth to try to stop our veggies from completely bolting.
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Chicken COOP roof POOP…
Well, it’s time to handle a dirty coop covered in poop. Chickens are so gross sometimes. BUT we can use their poo as a great fertilizer for our plants in the garden.
Chicken manure is high in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium… BUT also high in ammonia, which can burn your plants. This is why you might hear that chicken manure is “HOT”—it has nothing to do with temperature. Chicken poop must rest a while to be useable, so I just throw it in the compost until I harvest in a year.