Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

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Hmm, well the marrow is very nutritious, if very high in fat content. Historically (and prehistorically) it was a valued part of the animal in question. I honestly don't think it tastes bad, but not real good either. It does gel up like a marmalade in it's natural state.

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Hmm, well the marrow is very nutritious, if very high in fat content. Historically (and prehistorically) it was a valued part of the animal in question. I honestly don't think it tastes bad, but not real good either. It does gel up like a marmalade in it's natural state.

I don't think I want to think about the thought of bone marrow in marmalade... As far as eating it out of bones, i guess that's ok, and I'm sure it comes out into the meat if you have a stake with a bone in it.

To bring it on back around, you can use bonemeal and bloodmeal out in the garden. All of that stuff composts quite well if you know how to build a proper compost pile and how to prepare the stuff going into the compost. (Carbin to nitrogen ratios and stuff like that.) Bla bla bla, and you could wear a kilt while poking the pile with a pichfork...

I'm guessing you know all about that because you're a farm person of the female gender, String.

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I typically don't garden in a unbifurcated garment, but yes, most tasks can be done without leg covering. Most people garden in shorts after all, I personally never wear the things. Nor do I wear shoes in the garden either. I also never bother to turn the compost, although my dad does now that he only is gardening a 50ft square plot (at the largest) as opposed as 3 acres. Somehow it always seemed like just an extra thing to do when there was already way too much.

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Let's see, String... I'm guessing you mean you never wear shorts, or is it skirts you mean. I guess you mean you wear pants on the farm... I wear sandals a lot, but in my place and situation, barefoot gardening is not so good an idea. I live in a brier patch and in the summer the ground is extremely hot.

I never turn my compost. I build it in layers with an inner active core and an outer ring of straw or shredded paper and stuff. I just worry about keeping that inner core fueled and hot for a while. As the year goes by, the layers get higher and higher, then I let the pile rest for a year before I use it. I keep a layer of straw and hay and stuff like that on top of the whole thing and that has to be spread to the side or opened up to add to the core. It's at the back end of my property too. I also use all my gray water out in the micro farm sense we're talking about that stuff, but I won't go into that too much.

I don't mean anything against those who turn their compost; it's just the way I do mine.

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Let's see, String... I'm guessing you mean you never wear shorts, or is it skirts you mean. I guess you mean you wear pants on the farm... I wear sandals a lot, but in my place and situation, barefoot gardening is not so good an idea. I never turn my compost. I build it in layers with an inner active core and an outer ring of straw or shredded paper and stuff. I just worry about keeping that inner core fueled and hot for a while. As the year goes by, the layers get higher and higher, then I let the pile rest for a year before I use it. I keep a layer of straw and hay and stuff like that on top of the whole thing and that has to be spread to the side or opened up to add to the core.

To clarify... I never wear shorts, I think i own a pair, maybe. I wear skirts, and can do anything in a skirt that I can do in pants, although not as modestly as my grandmother might desire. However, that being said, barefoot gardening is no more encouraged in Kentucky, we have our own thistles, nettles and briers, but I have never been one to listen to that sort of reason.

My method of composting is simple, keep bucket in kitchen, when bucket is full, dump on top of pile, also do this with all the various and assundry clipping and junk that will rot. This method works surprisingly well, especially on our old compost pile that is probably been established for the last 30+ years. Dad's new piles are closer to the garden (his pack animals for such things went off to college) and they get turned and have methods for the piling and ingredients thereof. I personally think he's just getting old and picky.

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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.

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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.

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Thanks String, that's some useful information.
I do have a bermuda grass mini medow back there that's fun to walk barefoot through, and yess sometimes I'm wearing a kilt. The grass doesn't get as hot as the gravelly soil. I will also sometimes make a mud puddle and go stand in it barefoot. It's more of a grounding to the earth type of thing though and not gardening.

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T I will also sometimes make a mud puddle and go stand in it barefoot.

My nephew does this, and stomps in it, and splashes, and lies in it, and rolls about, and does his best to become a small mud person who is one with the earth in the sense that he is indistinguishable from it.

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Yes... We are of the Earth; we ar one with the Earth.
I also make ceramic sculptures, LOL!


I have two Nephews, one of which is my niece. My male nephew is about six and he probably plays in the mud, but I just met him last year so I don't know. My niecephew used to play in the mud, but she is seventeen now and would rather be getting tatoos.

I think the younger neph would play in the mud if it were on a Game Boy or what ever they are.