>frost incomingI've been gathering materials to put over plants nearly all week. I still need to get some more plastic, but I think I have enough bed sheets, buckets, cups, and flower pots to make due. I really need to get some UV protected plastic. That right most polytunnel was used for 1 winter in 2013 and is to the point where this will be its last season. It has that feel like it will suddenly go brittle and crack up soon. Maybe I'll get a glass greenhouse up this year...
>>1009755The spores are present just about everywhere. Most of the time you'll see inkcaps popup out of the wet straw.
>dig a hole to set the bale inI really think it is up to you. If your climate is very arid then you make want to dig a hole for half of it and use the excess dirt to mound around the sides. Otherwise, just lay it on the ground. They make instant raised beds. I don't really use them myself ($7 a bale here!). If I did, which I might in the future, I'd use them in place of good soil in new raised beds, until there was enough soil to replace them. Of course they would become compost over time.
>>1009745>>1009746>D•E•V•A•S•T•A•T•I•O•NCheeky buggers. I pulled an early nest of tent caterpillars from one of my peach trees about a month ago. The chickens seem half interested in them. I don't think they like them very well.
