Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[Bugbear]

Ok, String, I'm glad you explained that you were talking about not wearing shorts. As far as composting, that really is the best way of composting that you are talking about. Turning can really mess up the compost sometimes. I keep mine inside of the straw and all that stuff because I am on a regulare sized house lot and it acts as a bio air filter and that kind of stuff. I'm to weak and so on to go barefoot all the time. It sounds fun though.

* I might add that the bottum end of my compost pile is a worm farm as it cools down and the active part of the compost becomes higher up in the layers. Thumbs up on the slop bucket style. I'm in the middle of switching over to a different structure of compost pile because it has been too big of a task to get the gray water up into the top of the compost pile as the heep gets tall. The new one is in a bit of a trench, but also in a line like sheet composting kind of. That way I can just put the gray water hose on the top and let the raised serge berrels do the rest. Bla bla bla, it's only interesting if you are into composting, LOL!

* And sense I'm adding on all this stuff instead of making new posts. Any experience with gardening in a skirt that you would like to share, String, is fine. Though you said you usually didn't garden in a skirt. We'll just think of it as a type of kilt, LOL!

Thanks, all of you, for posting in the brier patch.

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Ok, String, I'm glad you explained that you were talking about not wearing shorts. As far as composting, that really is the best way of composting that you are talking about. Turning can really mess up the compost sometimes. I keep mine inside of the straw and all that stuff because I am on a regulare sized house lot and it acts as a bio air filter and that kind of stuff. I'm to weak and so on to go barefoot all the time. It sounds fun though.

* I might add that the bottum end of my compost pile is a worm farm as it cools down and the active part of the compost becomes higher up in the layers. Thumbs up on the slop bucket style. I'm in the middle of switching over to a different structure of compost pile because it has been too big of a task to get the gray water up into the top of the compost pile as the heep gets tall. The new one is in a bit of a trench, but also in a line like sheet composting kind of. That way I can just put the gray water hose on the top and let the raised serge berrels do the rest. Bla bla bla, it's only interesting if you are into composting, LOL!

* And sense I'm adding on all this stuff instead of making new posts. Any experience with gardening in a skirt that you would like to share, String, is fine. Though you said you usually didn't garden in a skirt. We'll just think of it as a type of kilt, LOL!

Thanks, all of you, for posting in the brier patch.

we generally don't need to add water, although I can see how that is necessary for your area. I find it all interesting, oddly, especially learning how things are done in the different climates. Considering the droughts we have been having and the general unnatural warmth to go along with it, I should pay attention.

Gardening in a skirt is much like anything else active in a skirt, there are a few things to remember

Efficiently vs. modesty: if you can't hike it up or other wise get it out of the way, it will be in the way.

washablility: don't wear dry-clean only items to garden in, you will get sweat, dirt, water, grass stains and worse on what you wear. If you care about it, don't wear it. this also applies for what i wear to reenact in.

DON'T try and crawl! you will get stuck and fall over, probably on the tomatoes if you are graceful like I am.

Going about barefoot takes practice, and an ability to ignore short-term pain.