The little things (on a budget)

[jerrymrc]

Damn! I'm busted. Yes, I am in Wyoming, but our WY-AR15.com forum isn't very active. Hope you don't mind if I hang out here.

I built a few raised beds this spring. At our local dump, they sell compost for $12/cubic yard. A cubic yard is about 1200 pounds, so this boils down to around $1/100 pounds. If you need garden soil (or any type of topsoil) this deal is hard to beat. I haven't tested the pH on, it but the composition is excellent. Hopefully you guys have something similar in Colorado.

Where I live the "soil" is nothing more than very hard clay. I have a tiered garden on the hillside. I started buy mixing claybuster in with the clay then 12" of topsoil. Been known to put 5000lbs of soil or rock in the bed of the dodge.

Last year the wife tried to grow a bunch of things and that was ok but I had none left over to can. This year is green beans and tomatoes. There is one small patch that I see the strawberry plants already coming back so I will leave them. The tomatoes are already looking good inside.

Today's little things is an item that kind of breaks the bank at $24 on sale but I will put it out there since I already had pic's. A stainless pot set. These are the large ones and come in a set of 4 from HF. They are kind of thin but not bad. 6-8-12 and 16 qt sizes.

So WTF jerry am I supposed to do with them???? gather water, cheap park tanks. drill holes and make one of a couple kinds of water filter. Paint the outside black and use part of that window kit along with the reflective window shade that I have not told you to buy yet but should have to make a solar stove. water bath canning. Large pots are very expensive but nice to have. These will not break the bank. They DO need to be washed very well before you use them. Time to go rearrange ammo, later.