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The bush was given away to farmers for many years, as it has an excellent root system, was meant to stabilize banks, provide a wind break, keep down on erosion. It's drought tolerant, and the berries are extremely nutritious, apparently - very high in Vitamin C. Tolerant to -43C IIRC. But it's the thorns that caught my attention (and shirt sleeves) - super sharp, and very long. The only way you're muscling through a patch of Sea Buckthorn is with a vehicle or wearing knights' armour.

Seems like an excellent plant to place around a perimeter that you do not breached by casual wanderers, with the added benefit of providing a good berry, if you have the patience to pluck them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippophae


PS : If anyone has a successful way of picking these berries, I'd like to hear about it. My hands felt like a pincushion after two or three hours of slow harvesting.

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March is pretty much the earliest starting time for the early's.. time to start peppers, tomatoes, ground cherries, brussel sprouts and egg plant soonish, if you want to grow luffa, they should be started in the next few weeks as well.

for me right now I am just starting my overwintered stone fruits, so Chinese peach babies and a unknown but boy did I like its picked up a local plum dark purple on a Quebec side trip..

last year we had a huge garden rebuild, and this year we will see what ca n be grown, last year we lost 63 average garden growing day, we have spring flood, summer drought and brutal hard very early killing frosts

its a new year.. are you gearing?]]> Gardening and agriculture farmgal https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/garden-like-it-counts-cuz-it-might-2020/ https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/silvo-pasture-tree-hay/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:59:19 +0000
What is Silov Pasture (its easy and old fashioned, its making sure you have a combo of scrub brush, managed trees/shelter belts)

How do we add in Tree hay to that.. we once again look outside canada to see where drier/hotter countries use the idea's above to cut down on a rolling base tree growth that is higher then the livestock's grazing height, therefor doubling your land's ability to produce, grazing pasture on the ground and active massive tree pasture growing above their heads.

Move that from places that have heat and larger land mass's to the smaller holder and you start to bring in pollarding and hundreds of years of working with different types of hedgerowing in Europe. I am working on seeing if I can get a day class.group training here on the farm in regards to planting out a couple more rows of willows planted and planned for future combo silver pasture and tree hay.

right now, I have mainly norway maple, which works ok for the goats/sheep but not so good for the horse's.. willow and ash would be so! much better but ash has a real issue here with the emerald ash boer.

Also using this system to create fence posts (a hundred cedar being planted in yearly for the next while as a combo of feeder and future fence posts) and also once allowed to grow, a smaller builit in wood supply as well.

C5 had a excellent post on this in his colorful style but I liked his photos and really loved the video's he found (how does he find the best how to, show you this or that video..he is clearly mastered u-tube in a way I have not)

https://darkgreenmountainsurvivalresearchcentre.wordpress.com/2019/03/05/c5-gets-apocalyptic-wood-from-faggots-p-ii/

Honestly there is so much more on this subject that I am not sure how to split them all out or just lump it all together.. but I think I am going to just pull it all into this thread.

So heard of some of it? working any of it? Think.. nope I have all the tools and proper bush, I do not need to do any of it?]]> Gardening and agriculture farmgal https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/silvo-pasture-tree-hay/ https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/gardening-or-gardens-2019/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:05:33 +0000
I walked outside this morning and I can feel spring in the wind, smell it in the yard despite my whole farm being under feet of snow and covered in sheets of ice LOL

Its March 11th.. So where is your garden or garden plans at?

For most of us, we are going to be frozen outside but we have a few things to do this week..

Fruit Tree Pruning is coming for the next few weeks, keep a close eye on your buds because you want that pruning done before they start to break.

but the real work is starting in the house.. there are a few things that ideally you want to start 8 weeks before last spring frost date and for many of us that means we might want to be checking our seed packages and getting our seed trays, soil ready and so forth..

What have you started so far? In house, in Greenhouse(heated or unheated).. Where are you at in your garden zone?]]> Gardening and agriculture farmgal https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/gardening-or-gardens-2019/ https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/rain-or-storm-gardens/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:00:53 +0000
How are you doing this fine day.. are you expecting flooding this spring? Have you been struggling with some drought issues? Feast or famine in your area at times?

I am taking a Master Rain Garden Course and I am finding it very interesting and I am looking forward to sharing some of the basic's here, I am going to strongly recommend that folks consider adding in at least one rain garden to help protect your home from water issues.

While it will not help in true flood out, it can go along! way in regards to mild/moderate condition, its a way to drive that water away from your foundations and give it time to sink into your ground water source for those short but intense rain storms that we seem to be getting more and more often.]]> Gardening and agriculture farmgal https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/rain-or-storm-gardens/ https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/bale-growing/ Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:31:49 +0000
Has me thinking about trees as well, am wondering if burying a bale in the ground and planting a seedling into it might be a good way to get a tree started in marginal/dry earth. Quite a bit more effort, but if you're planting something with a decent tap root, the bale might sop up enough water to give the tree the water and nutrients it needs to establish itself.

.]]> Gardening and agriculture Danux https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/bale-growing/ https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/seed-sources/ Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:17:45 +0000 I have lots more open polinated seeds to round up for next year.
Any suggestions of Canadian vendors?]]> Gardening and agriculture denob https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/seed-sources/ https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/2018-garden-experiment/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:52:14 +0000 Turns out to be my most successful experiment yet. I only grew 3 or 4 plants and WOW did they ever produce a lot of greens. They also lasted almost until we got snow. These plants are cold hearty as heck, providing us with salad greens well past the time when other lettuces are gone to the compost pile.
Swiss chard is definitely going into my regular garden, which will be going into expansion next year!]]> Gardening and agriculture denob https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/2018-garden-experiment/ https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/goldfish/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 07:23:32 +0000
I thought the goldfish was a brilliant idea]]> Gardening and agriculture oldschool https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/goldfish/ https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/thieving-rodents/ Thu, 04 Oct 2018 08:09:31 +0000
I'm Pi$$ed! I mean really ticked off!

I need help with a solution...no fences or fancy chicken wire cloches are gonna do the trick here. I'm almost to the point of going full on ghilli suit sniper on these buggers! Anyone have an idea? I require a FINAL solution.]]> Gardening and agriculture denob https://canadianpreppersnetwork.com/community/gardening-and-agriculture/thieving-rodents/