Grow your own

[m25operator]

I have one of these and they work well, watch the videos, they are funny with under lying sexual tones, same concept, but smaller and inexpensive. I have been growing peppers in large pots for yrs, same with basil and sage.

I do like your set up Phil, and of course daughter is what we call in Texas, Darlin.

[Solus]

Feed them maters',.... Love the raised bed garden. Had one in every yard. Even grew strawberries in slits cut in a 40lb. bag of Miracle Grow garden soil, watered and fertilized with a 2 liter soda bottle. Worked like a champ, just a few pokes for drainage.

If you can get Chicken Poop fertilizer, it is better than standard cow manure types.

Still think your farm help looks like Nicole Kidman.

Good Spring Crops to you. Spring for you, Fall for us, however, in South Florida, it's tomato season..

The only time I heard of chicken manure being used was a practice in Viet Nam where they would put a chicken coop over a pool used to raise fish for food.  The cool air above the water make the chickens more productive and the Chicken Poop fed the fish.

I was aware of Cow and Horse manure needing to be "cooled" for up to 6 months to reduce the nitrogen levels so as not to "burn" the crop.

Elephant manure was said to be the best as it could be  used fresh with no cool down.  Best place to get it is when the circus is in town.  They used to help you fill your truck with it for free.

[Solus]

Phil, what exactly is the item you are using for the raised bed? 

Appears to be some kind of bottomless water trough.

Thanks.

[Solus]

Another thing, Phil.

I've been thinking about how this experience is working for your daughter.

She is learning mechanical skills; harder labor in the shoveling; care an maintenance lessons in tending the garden; and a great lessson in the rewards of hard work with food her work  helped put on the table for her family.  Then there will be the reward of the best vegetables she has ever tasted all do to her working hard.

All the skills and knowledge of gardening is a big bonus too.

Great lessons...

[sledgemeister]

Phil, what exactly is the item you are using for the raised bed? 

Appears to be some kind of bottomless water trough.

Thanks.

They basically are. A while ago some one cottoned on to using corrugated rain water tanks that was no longer being used, cutting them in half and making raised garden beds, they was cheap and easily done by any DIY person with a grinder or metal shears.
Then some one thought hell we could make money out of this and started forming their own corrugated "style" garden beds, of course these are now popular among elderlie, yuppies and people with small yards and cost 5x as much. LOL

You can make them yourself though out of old orchard bins brought from farms or supermarkets that no longer want the old ones, simply drag them home place where you want. You can if you want fill them half way with bulky material to save on the amount of soil you have to use to fill them with, after all most vegies only need at max 1 ft of soil to grow, some only a few inches. Go mad I say grow your own and give the finger to the multinational supermarkets.

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[philw]

Another thing, Phil.

I've been thinking about how this experience is working for your daughter.

She is learning mechanical skills; harder labor in the shoveling; care an maintenance lessons in tending the garden; and a great lessson in the rewards of hard work with food her work  helped put on the table for her family.  Then there will be the reward of the best vegetables she has ever tasted all do to her working hard.

All the skills and knowledge of gardening is a big bonus too.

Great lessons...

that was a lot of the reason behind doing it 

+ what Rob Added 

They basically are. A while ago some one cottoned on to using corrugated rain water tanks that was no longer being used, cutting them in half and making raised garden beds, they was cheap and easily done by any DIY person with a grinder or metal shears.
Then some one thought hell we could make money out of this and started forming their own corrugated "style" garden beds, of course these are now popular among elderlie, yuppies and people with small yards and cost 5x as much. LOL

You can make them yourself though out of old orchard bins brought from farms or supermarkets that no longer want the old ones, simply drag them home place where you want. You can if you want fill them half way with bulky material to save on the amount of soil you have to use to fill them with, after all most vegies only need at max 1 ft of soil to grow, some only a few inches. Go mad I say grow your own and give the finger to the multinational supermarkets.

That's it