Seed Trading "HERE" at ConCen 2012 Growing Season!

[IanPotter]

Thx for the encouragement guys. Appreciated. I know I can go on a bit but writing my little confession up there made me realize that I really have made great progress - even if you got there in half the time FT!

Mmm, chicken poop tea! Great idea since I look after the chickens when the owners are away and he just puts it into bags. Trouble is though, he uses straw in their nesting area and so it tends to be about 10% crap to 90% straw at best. Not good I guess. He doesn't seem to know what to do with it though, so maybe if I ask for a bag or two, make a quick pot of tea and mix the rest it in with my little pile of surplus horse dung and leave it for a year or two? I guess it'll bring weeds, ie grass mostly, like the horse dung does, but I can cope with that. That cool do you think?

Speaking of clever uses of shit. My evil step-father seemed to have a good technique when I was young. He'd plant cucumbers and tomatoes in his greenhouse, but rather than watering the plants directly he'd get large clay pots and bury them to the rim between each pair of plants. Then, he'd fill each pot to the brim with sheep shit, water each pot regularly and cover them with circles of wood. That way the plants got what they needed right down at the roots but he never had to do any weeding in there because the top of the soil was too dry. Always seemed to get great results.

Good point about the potatoes. I found out about the supermarket root inhibitor in year 2, but I hadn't thought about the cloned disease aspect. In truth however, I think in my case the blight migrated from next door. He tries to grow tomatoes in a overly shady (ie moist) area and those get zapped first each year, then it spreads.

Ah-hah! Just had a thought. What if I combine the chicken shit straw with some seed potatoes Todd? What do you reckon?