I'm coo-coo for CoCo....... Coir
On a cold rainy day what better than to spend it in a 75 degree greenhouse rehydrating coco coir?
Willie Nelson’s Birthday set the stage warding off the “boredom” rinsing the block coir.
Three 10 pound compressed blocks. Water, patience, meditation it was a great day!
It takes about 20 gallons of water to completely rehydrate a block.
And about a half hour of meditation.
Gives ya time to also check on the potatoes….they are finally breaking ground.
I have a two fish net, two bucket, two squeeze method to rinse the coco. Scoop into one, squeeze out excess water, let drain further over bucket, get another going, go back to first, squeeze out excess water, place in bin. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat…
Yes, it looks like “Bovine Re-conditioned Grass”. But no odor. Fun, fun, fun!
Here’s the setup.
Tomorrow tick control. Again!
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Just keep the high grass down about 5 ticks and get on with it. 
Sorry watching Tigers it was a beautiful catch by Vierling top of 6.
Time for Hale to get bigger, city people coming. Lotta property changing hands, estate sales, etc.
just saying if you’re still traveling round.
I'd be able to feed my self and a bunch of others with one of those!
Lucky.
I hope all your efforts bear the best harvest.
I'm going for snap peas in a big pot on the porch so the deer and the rabbit won't eat them. Onions and tomatoes are going into some nice black dirt down at my buddy's house. I can't do a plot in the community garden because of my allergies. Everybody plants some kind of mint and I am seriously allergic to it, everything... catnip, basil, verbena, coleus, anything with a square stem and mint cluster form of blooms. I can still have basil if it's dried first or cooked into something but I can't eat pesto or lovely things like that. And I have to watch where I hike, there are several wild varieties and they are ubiquitous.
But I'm goin' for it. Everything warmed up Thursday night so I have been getting it all planned and plotted. New moon is Friday and I don't know if I can wait to put the seeds in!
If I had a house like yours, I'd be halfway to done by now. Maybe I can talk my buddy into putting one up in his back yard. A real hard maybe.
I'm using chicken dung and black dirt, seems to work well up here.
Inside that plant menagerie are 4-5 different kinds of tomatoes, green cabbage, broccolini, assorted colors of peppers red, yellow, onions. Probably more stuff I’ve forgotten, Mary knows all that stuff. Radishes and carrots are already growing outside in the raised beds.
We have another 3-4 days of unseasonably cool weather by Wednesday we should start to see high 30’s at night, nothing below freezing. Gotta day temper the plants and bring inside at night for a couple weeks.
