Just a continuation of @Yvonne Smith's annual Gardening thread! I'm already anxious to get started. I decided last fall that I would stop bothering with a "compost pile" and simply toss vegetable peelings and other plant scraps directly onto my outside raised beds. I figured it would all rot and decay directly into the soil and just be turned in the soil when I get ready to plant in the spring. Today I noticed that I have a couple of potato "volunteers" growing in one bed, apparently from some potato peels I tossed out there. They are about 4-5" tall so I wonder if they will have time to make anything before a freeze takes them out. As I did last year, I'm planning mostly tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers in my little garden beds. I'm adding a few EarthBox planters and might plant bush beans and some green onions in those. I might try a few seed potatoes in those potato grow bags; I have never intentionally planted potatoes but they seem easy to grow.
Thank You!!! But seriously, you may want to rethink that strategy, if not for possums then for other rodents.
I believe that burying it greatly reduces the chances of rodents, but I may be mistaken. Others with more experience can chime in on this.
Yvonne tried extremely hard to plant sunflowers to no avail because the squirrels would dig up the seeds. So, she believed she outsmarted the squirrels by planting the seeds underneath the iris’s. Long story short, the next morning after she planted them, a whole row, probably 20 Iris’s, were laying down next to their holes and the only thing left of the sunflower seeds were the hulls.
Pre-start the sunflowers and plant the seedlings. It may deter them form the sunflower seeds. Of course, they may like young plants as well. I have never had squirrels dig up seeds that I planted.
I have never "buried" stuff at all. We used to have a compost pile that was built like open fencing; I'd just dump vegetable scraps on top of it. Every few weeks or so we'd turn it with a pitchfork but any animals could dig in it if they were so inclined. After a big snake slithered out of it one year I decided no more mulch pile for me.
That would be interesting. The only critters I remember having in the compost piles were anoles, cute little lizards. No problems with it here-no snakes, possums, or raccoons. Bears are a potential, but I haven't had problems with them.
I am getting ready to start some seeds in an Aerogarden to transplant in my raised beds next month. Last year I had great success with tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers so I'm going to expand my horizons this year.
We started our seeds a little late this year. So far they are doing good. We have over a dozen giant sunflowers . I'll have to figure out where to put them.Wish I'd waited longer to start them.