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Title: Gulching - Any Experience Here?
Source: Lonsome Self
URL Source: http://None
Published: Apr 23, 2006
Author: ...
Post Date: 2006-04-23 00:31:48 by ...
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Views: 2659
Comments: 67

I am playing with the idea of surviving with very little money. The way my dad did back in the great depression.

We've put in 100 tomato plants and are planning to can spaghetti sauce and a form of vedgitarian chili for the winter. I've also got a buch of peppers going in and several varieties of squash. The squash will keep through the winter.

A woman down the road raises chickens and she was giving me tips on setting this up. It seems like an amazing amount of work. Buried fences faced with sheet metal to keep out foxes and coyotes. She said she lost 20 of her 50 free range hens to foxes last year in broad daylight. I was going to start with ten chickens just to get the feel of it, but I might shine this one. Still thinking it over. One problem is that is sometimes gets to 50 below here in the winter and this makes even more problems for livestock. She was telling me how a thick paste of chicken shit and sawdust on the floor helps keep the coop warm - bleeech.

Last year I tried out some fish traps in the rivers and they worked great. Illegal as hell, but really effective.

Anybody got any other ideas on crops? I am looking for things that grow and produce all summer and, hopefully, could be sold at a produce stand. Corn and wheat take too much land. Truck farming stuff seems best.

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This is one of my favorite topics. 50 below zero? Do you have a greenhouse, or are you in a position to add a small sunroom to your home? If so, you can use an earth box to help extend your growing season. I use these in short-season New England, and these things produce AMAZING amounts of vegetables...click on the link and read up. They run about $30 a piece, so many 'thrifty' types build their own out of those 18-gallon Rubbermaid tubs you see at China...er, I mean Wal-Mart. I have a relative making some more for me, and I just might buy another dozen just for the hell of it. We use them for tomatoes and hot peppers, because my wife makes a bitchin' hot salsa. To extend the season, we put them on our enclosed porch in October, and kept picking fresh veggies for another month or so, until the plants just 'wore out'. Make sure you are using non-hybrid seeds, so you can save them for the following garden season. Two GREAT sources are heirloom seeds and seed savers . Geri Guidetti's Ark Institute has a smaller seed selection, but her site is packed with lots of info on gardening, along with info on water and bird flu. Personally; I don't buy into a lot of this 'bird flu' stuff, but I don't believe in throwing the baby out with the bath water, either. I've used her seeds in the past, and they 'save' very well. Hope this helps.

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how do you think asparagus would do in one of these?

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Do you have a greenhouse, or are you in a position to add a small sunroom to your home?

I want to build a hot house for the seedlings. This would save a lot of money. The shoots are costing me over a dollar apiece. The big, semi-mature ones are five dollars.

I am going to build it low using a box of 4 x 4's covered with glass from old sliding doors I can scrounge. We are at a high altitude and the wind routinely gusts to 80 mph so a wood frame covered with clear plastic is a joke. The wind ripped the shingles off one side of the house last week.

We do have a short growing season. We still have to carry all the plants into the shed at night as it still freezes. Can't take them out of the pots and put them in the ground for three more weeks or so.

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