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I was wondering how you found time to run such an active Facebook account, learning you recruited someone else to manage it made it make sense.

I liked this video, not because of the wood chip composting, but because I finally got a brief review that I can trust of that composter. Only been wanting to see that for a few years. Now to save up and buy a couple of them... which might take a few more years, but that's life huh.

I recently came across this image which might help a little bit. It shows latitude comparison which isn't perfect because it doesn't take into account things like mountainswhich affects rainfall, which makes wet and dry zones, which affects minimum and maximum temperatures, nor any other things...

Grain is part of a chicken's natural diet, and cows, and horses, and pigs, and humans. Feeding them too much gain, or only grain, is a serious problem because that's a severe diet imbalance. 'Man can not live by bread alone', and farm animals shouldn't live by grain alone either. But that's not...

Things I have learned... 1. It's a lot easier to clean underneath a roosting area when you can sweep/rake/shovel up the mess without having to bend over and half-crawl under a roof or shelter to do it. 2. Deep litter under the roosting area needs cleaning a lot less often. Shallow litter...

Marks' latest video, and leave it to him to bring brutal reality to our screens. A big green thumbs up for this one. I believe this is one of the most important gardening videos Mark has created so far. A lot of gardening information out there is about growing well, growing more, featuring...

Glyphosate isn't the chemical you should be worried about on your garden mulch. Leave it in the sun for a few weeks to break down, bye-bye glyphosate. There are other much longer lasting and more dangerous herbicides that can cause problems however, and which ones exist and are used in your...

Whether or not sugar cane, straw, or any other garden mulch might contain herbicides of any kind will largely depend on what part of the world you're in, because regulations vary widely, and some places the regulations that exist are strictly enforced and in others any regulations that exist may...

I heard my name whispered a few days ago, sorry for being late to the party. Birdies beds huh... okay, first thing is to figure out your physical ability now and in the future, and how that will impact your ability to best use the beds; and what you're going to plant in them, and figure it out...

Today I harvested!... my first pot of potatoes. Got plenty of them, but they're all still a bit small, good little crop of baby potatoes, and 3 pea sized ones, which I'll be putting aside for replanting - if it worked for Mark, it can work for me! I'll leave it a few more weeks before I upend...

Handsome fella.

Any food feast that you grew yourself is always going to be the best, best on price, best on health, best on taste. Happy to hear you had a great Turkey day.

I loved the way Mark was so enthusiastic and excited every time he found another potato, as if he genuinely expected there to be none of decent size, and every single one he found was like a little kid discovering another pressie under the xmas tree.

Go for it! I don't want to be the only person doing unusual things with Birdies beds, so if you can greenhouse one, I want to see it done! Might consider doing so myself if you can document and show us how you did it.

If my memory is correct, Mark was referring to those in the USA buying the Birdies beds from Epic Gardening getting the 40% deal. He did say that those of us in Australia will have to wait until early next year to be able to get these new design next gen Birdies beds, so the Birdies Garden...

Seed potato is nothing more than the name given to a potato that has been set aside for the purpose of being able to use it to grow more potatoes. Any potato that you grow and put aside for planting next season is a seed potato. The only difference commercially is that seed potatoes need to be...

Fixed my camera! Needed a new SD card. 😕 Anyway, I still have to finish filling the bed up with soil and compost and good stuff like that, and put a tree back in its place, and put my worm feeders in the bed, and plant strawberries, and mulch... lots more work to get done just on this bed alone...

This made me laugh, because I know exactly how frustrating that is. The weather readings are never quite right, the only accurate storm warnings for my area come from locals paying attention to the horizons, we get no frost warnings and are told we can't grow high chill plants here, but we do...

Recent news: The USA has recently released a new hardiness zone map, which is much more up to date, accurate, detailed, and interactive than the old one. Some of the zones have changed a bit over time as well, so some people might find they've been bumped up or down into a different zone now...

Let me get some clarification on what you mean here. When you say using seed potatoes again, do you mean you plant seed potatoes, get a crop of potatoes, then when you harvest them you identify the original seed potato that you used to grow that crop and if there's enough left of it, you want to...