In our country, too, nature has taken a tax, …
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Is it only a problem while the plant is alive(rotation), or does it stay in the soil longer than a season?
I was planning to put buckwheat into a rotation, with beans and then corn or tomatoes as a yearly changing rotation.
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I belive its the first. Im guessing the toxins wear out fast once the plant is terminated.
Here its usualy been sewn after barley or wheat, it will clear the feald of weeds, provide second crop and a late forage for bees. Harvested when the first frost comes (l culd be wrong on this one) and l also dont know whats the next plant group in the rotation. I wuld guess potatoes, since buckwheat is harvested in fall and the soil is left to rest all winter-no winter crop.
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That is good to know and I’ll keep that in mind.
The pouch is hermetically sealed plastic bag so I might save them for next year. I don’t have any good tilled ground right now to plant them in.
My giant wood chip mulch pile is starting to finally decompose, noticing mushrooms at the edges of the pile and seeing the beautiful white fungus when I dig into it. I should start laying some down to build topsoil combined with leaves.
Ordered more seeds and a book specifically written for growing in the Carolinas, which I’ve really needed to have physical information to not depend on Herr Google.
Lutz Green Leaf Beet
Hickory King Dent Corn
An Heirloom variety of Pinto Bean
Charleston Gold Rice known to grow here no problem
And a handheld sheller for corncobs.
All of them are Non GMO Heirlooms. Pretty excited to have a traditional corn species that I know will make viable seed kernels.
Edit: since I’m getting into cereal grains I found a very interesting thresher design. Can be bicycle powered but I’m sure would be very easy to spin with a woodgas fueled small engine.
https://farmhack.org/tools/bicycle-powered-thresher
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After quite long dry period we have got some rain drops. It makes all green and jump to the sky
My height is 6’1". 
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Kamil, I’m impressed your potatoes are aready flowering. My first sprouts popped through the mulch today.
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Impressive potatoes, ours just popped up too.
Me and wife took a little evening-trip with the car, looking at nature, (and me looking for scrap), visited a place where i found some gasifier stuff, resting (rusting) in peace, in the woods.
Gasifier graveyard.
Original Imbert, slowly rusting away.
Cooler and filter, very dented, probably a logger/harvester that have moved it out of the way.
My thoughts was maybe there was a filling lid left that i could use to replace mine, but there was’nt.
Anyway it’s nice to take a little walk in the woods this time a year, when mosquitos havent really get started yet.
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If you can look at that stuff and think what can I build with that then your junk addiction is even worse than mine Goran.
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And sometimes it is best to create your own worn-out junk. The best quality source of spare parts.
Just have to finally retire it:
Needs again (third time) a new set of front wheels - they flop and drag now.
After discovering that truckers metal winch; then two big chunks of wood . . . and finally a pot-line refractory brick overgrown grasses buried; the engine shaft is for sure visibly bent 1/8" (2.5mm). Even after cold hammering the blade from a made “J” shaped curl bent back to straight; the running vibration is too much.
Shaking off all of the bolts and fasteners, Left hand handle wire wrap “fix” to keep going. Then soon later, the righthand handle from years of use, and this new vibration broke off at its mounting end. The righthand pulling and wrap wires “fix” to finished the behind house sloped yard.
Plus. Huff&Puff, Pant-Panting: that sloped back yard has convinced me at 69 yo I need to go back to a powered wheel drive mower. . .so . . .
This Honda has ball bearing wheels.
And just so you can all tell my Doctor that I ain’t slacking. . . my hand choppers I used now on morning walks to keep the forest edge trail opened up. Temperate rainforest in the spring time.
Who needs golf? When you got spring-greens overgrowths.
S.U.
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I often take that flat golf club with me on my morning walks too but I have to pay attention to where the dog is at. don’t want to have to rename her tri-pod.
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Ha! I had a dog named tripod, half husky half malamute. Neighbor thought he was a coyote and took a leg off. Good dog to, very protective of us as kids
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Yup I have seen and know guys that play golf a couple times a week but hire the yard work out to someone else to do the work. Oh yes these guys use electric golf carts too, so they can play more rounds of golf. And then spend a couple hours playing the 19th hole in the clubhouse. I work my high school years at the Moses Lake Golf and Country Club. You can learn a lot cutting grass.
Bob
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Call me crazy but when i worked for city of Buckley right out of high school in the parks department, I found cutting grass to be down right therapeutic! Still enjoy cutting grass today, kick back and relax on the mower, make the yard look nice. And now i really thanks to a few members here I really want to try a scythe
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I’ve been looking at one of these unless someone else knows of better new-made scythes. I’ll need to get a grain cradle as well. I have my family’s scythe but it has a short and broad blade that’s been heavily abused. English style handle with the curves.
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Aluminum handle just seems wrong. If I ever get back to forging I think that this would be a perfect project to hammer out of a leaf spring. In my next life I’m going to be triplets. Then maybe I can get at least half the stuff I want to do, done. I’ve heard of people that are bored with life. How sad is that?
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With grass or hay you want a super light snath/handle, woods for traditional ones are usually either thinly made from hardwood or made of a softer wood. The ones we’re all used to seeing at flea markets, the heavy baseball bat ones and like the one I have as a family relic are for heavy brush and saplings.
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Hey Marcus, I just got done mowing the yard with the SELF-propeled lawn mower. Ya me my SELF and I pushing it. It has a bag on it for lawn clippings, Dana needed some for the garden. The John Deer rider is in mulcher mode. I am sitting here resting now, very therapeutic is right with a cool glass of water. One more thing I just realized and found out is after turning 70 years old, mowing and pushing the lawn mower around the yard does not get easier. Hum, may be that’s why the golfers went and hired it done? Go figure.
Bob
P.S. you are crazy. Lol
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Here is how to hay with scythes on a steep mountain.
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Really starting to wish I had a tiller in between the size of my little bitty Honda front tine and my Kubotas pto tiller. Gravelys are slim pickings around here, people still use them!
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