So have you gave the nl a smoke yet? If so how you like it?
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No worries on the Durban being racy. You will really like it , I think. That NL #2 is one of the best ive seen, nice grow !
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We have been sampling, sheās exquisite. Stoney as hell, and sleep great. I have twice now forgot to do an evening chore, so I got to be sure Iām settled down for the day before I get into NL.
The Durban is in the Cannatrol. I found some mold around a dead leaf inside one bud. Itās been really humid this year and the tent was stuffed. Iām glad it was just the one spot starting.
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I have plenty of time to make more.
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You should take pants up on his offer, Iām glad he made fems, itās a really wonderful plant. Iāve still got a couple and will be putting her in the lineup again. We got 5 oz off her with minimal fuss. She tolerated my bullshit quite well. Trimmed up super easy. She will be great at keeping the jars full, 5oz from a 2x2 space.
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Sold!!! Lol. I definitely will take him up on it
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Just caught up. Great job on those flowers!
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Nice journal. That NL is one gorgeous lady.
Your green thumb shows!
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My spouse took a picture of these two turkey in the pumpkin vine and I feel like @RainToday needs to see!
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Oh my goodness theyāre adorable! 
Totally what I needed in my day, thank you. 
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Hey @RainToday how are you!
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Hungry! @AppalachianBiscuits 's turkeys have got me thinking about Thanksgiving 
lol!
At least, I assume that is their destiny? How many are you raising?
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We have a dozen 
We got 2 last year and one made it to the table. But was HUGE. We looked around and found a āminiā turkey but the minimum to order was 10 and they sent 2 extra in case of loss.
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if only I didnāt live half way across the country Iād be happy to help you out
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Oh yāall.
I need your advice on composting. Gather round and hear my problems.
We have house scraps, butts of vegetables, leftover rice, potato peels etc. the chickens eat most of this. We just dump the bucket in the coop and they slurp it right up. BUT they donāt eat onions and a couple other things.
I have garden waste like weeds, pruned branches, bug biten fruits. Sometimes more volume like tomato vines, spent plants etc.
We also have grass clippings, we are moving away from as much grass lawn, but there will always be some.
Then we have chicken shit. I shovel the coop at least twice a year. Itās just poop, no shavings.
Ive tried tumblers, it filled in a single day then take months to compost. While we keep producing compostables. I never get the balance right and it gets bugs. Then I canāt get the dirt out.
Iāve tried on ground bin compost. It gets critters every time. Or, it never gets started. It just is a little pile of stuff. Iāve giving the chickens access to pick bugs etc and they FLING every everywhere.
Iām about to try a round section of fence. Take about 5ā of 3ā high wire garden fence zip tied into a cylinder. Just, throw stuff in there and then let it all out when itās dirt.
Thoughts?
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Do you have any worm bins?
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Following along. Iām pretty sure I compost all wrong.
@AppalachianBiscuits . Everything will compost if given enough time. Your idea will work but you need to keep the pile āmoistā, not wet and turn it from time to time. You can add things continuously and when you need compost use a shovel and a wire screen to collect the smaller compost while excluding the larger uncomposted bits. 
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I donāt currently have any worm bins. I have in the past and like them, but I feed them more like pets.
I need a compost system that works for me. Being easy to collect humus and not turning them are important to me. Iām willing to work with multiple styles, multiple smaller systems that are āfilledā and you wait. Iāve looked at worms and bokashi too.
Iām also interested in working in overwintering somehow. I veg garden in raised beds, and have in the past created new beds or moved beds by setting them up in the fall with layers of chicken shit, leaves, peat, etc and then plant a cover crop, then cover with leaves.
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Compost is a pain. Iāve never done better than you. When I had chickens I had a large critter-proof run for them to stay in except when I let them out in the yard
(5Wx10Lx5.5āH with a corrugated plastic roof to give a little shelter from the rain, though it would still get wet except next to their house.)
I used the ādeep litterā method, started with a foot deep bed of the chippings from a woodchipper gotten free from a local landscaping company. Then I would pitch in literally all the compostables you listed, except we didnāt have any grass clippings. The chickens would eat most of it, even the leaves from most of the plant clippings and spent tomato vines and stuff. As you mentioned, they wouldnāt eat onions or carrots, or woody stems, but they would indeed fling stuff everywhere digging in their coop, and poo on it a bit, and eat every single bug.
The coop never smelled super bad, and things broke down and decomposed well. The level would build up gradually, with the stuff in the bottom turning into soil. I scooped it out once a year, but it would be twice if there had been more chickens per square foot. I stopped adding new material for about a week right before scooping it out, and there wasnāt anything in there that a rodent would have wanted.
Chickens are an awesome destructive force. My dad even used them to kill ivy and blackberries. Its not as good as hot composting for disease control, but it eliminated all the bugs, and the garden disease causing microbes didnāt fare well in there either. I was able to till it into a section and plant things that didnāt mind āhotā soil. Or you could just leave it in a mound for another couple seasons and then spread it around like mulch.
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