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Deer Deterrent
When we talk about pest control we normally think insect. Larger animals can be pests also. At our ORP we have a small herd of deer that invade the garden. While the resident dogs can do a fair job with these white tails while they are out and about, the deer get to forage freely at night.
Fences are only effective to an extent. As opportunistic and selective foragers, deer will only respect "sharing" to a certain extent. Paul Wheaton shares a solution related by Sepp Holz called Bone Sauce.
I suggest you read this article and enjoy the video in it. It might be a worthwhile investment of time to save orchards and gardens from deer usurpation.
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Mar 16 2013, 11:24 AM EDT by
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Egg Estimates?
Unless that's a per-week basis and not a per-season basis for yield estimates, 6 dozen eggs seems like a low number. I've got five birds and they yield on average 2 dozen eggs in a week. Anyways, you should probably specify what period of time that yield is for.
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Feb 22 2013, 4:07 PM EST by
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How about a garden pool type arrangement?
Check out the gardenpool.org website. They have an interesting polyculture aquaponic garden that incorporates chicken, fish, algae and greens, and a drip irrigated garden all in the same greenhouse. It's reasonably sustainable, efficient, compact and diversified. I'll try to summarize: Build a pool or use an old swimming pool. Build a greenhouse over it. Build a chicken coup over the deep end. stock the deep end with tilapia and/or carp or catfish. grow water plants, algae and greens to feed the chickens and fish. The chicken droppings fall in the water also feed the fish. Solar powered pumps cycle the fish water up to the garden in the shallow end of the pool via drip irrigation. The now filtered water drips back down the the fish pool.
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Feb 10 2013, 4:15 PM EST by
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Egg Incubator
I just spent a couple hours watching some YouTubes on home made incubators. Back when I raised chickens I had a commercial incubator that was far simpler than what I saw in the videos. It consisted of a box with a light bulb in it. Temperature was regulated by how much air flow was let into and out of the box; very passive.
The YT videos were very inspiring. Some questions that were raised for me:
How much turn do the eggs need? Some turning apparatuses did as little as 45 while others achieved as much as 180. I don't think my broody hens did very much more than move them about, 35 year old memory though.
How often do the eggs need to be turned? One guy has his eggs turned every hour. The commercial ones seem to turn them a few times per day. The impact of this question is in regard to how important an automatic turner actually is. If turning the eggs once per 12 hours is sufficient then auto turners seem like a waste of money and effort. The tray turner in this video could just as easily be operated with a manual push rod.
How much fresh air is needed? None of the YT designs had a means of introducing fresh air other than opening the box on an unspecified occasion. There must be a balance between fresh air circulation and heat control. Broody hens are not air tight at all, but the boxes need to be somewhat air tight for good heat control.
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Dec 26 2012, 12:18 PM EST by
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They're ready earlier.
My family grows onions up here in Canada. We always pick the onions when the stick is green and about 8 centimeters tall. The white bit isn't as big but is ready to eat and still tastes good and is ready about 2 months after planting.
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Jul 19 2012, 4:52 PM EDT by
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Building Farmville Game
Okay, here are the rules.
(1) Choose a material commonly used in the construction of homes or items that would not normally be looted from homes and that you could expect to find in every home in suburbia.
(2) Explain how you would use that material or item to create, improve, or maintain a garden post-apoc.
The goal is to eventually completely recycle an entire suburban subdivision house that has likely already been scavanged at least once into a .92acre garden.
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Jun 26 2012, 9:43 PM EDT by
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How to Grow Wheat
"Give us this day our daily bread . . ." Wheat is one of the oldest cultivars on Earth and one of the major turning points in moving man from nomad to farmer. Wheat is generally hardy, easy to grow, has a shelf life of decades, and is highly product
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May 25 2012, 9:33 PM EDT by
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Raising Chickens for Food
Terminology A male chicken is called a ****, Cockeral (neutered male), or Rooster. The female chicken is a hen. Baby chickens are called chicks. Immature females (not yet laying) are refered to as poults or pullets. A bantam is a species of chick
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May 17 2012, 10:11 PM EDT by
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Valley survial and defence
Now this is my primary survival plan as detailed as I can make it, will add more details as I remember them.
OK first off an valley, with two entry roads, one viewable and one hidden up into the hills. A residential area halfway into one side of the valley side. A farm that I live on currently no farm animals here. further in there are a few farms that have animals. One powerplant 500 meters from me and then there's another one 1.5-3 (0.93- 1.8 US) miles in.
There are a few people who have small gardens and use what they grow during the summer till around Christmas. There`s lakes near the second powerplant that should be safe to fish in.
3 000 people live in the area, think I could get up to 1 000 people in there.
Most have some rifles and shotguns, about 500 people live in the valley itself.
The power plant`s is water based, out of what I understood from the tours we had at them in primary school was that it is pretty simple to maintain them and keep them up.
If we evacuate the farmers we should be able to get plenty of seeds and such. Most people would most likely ignore them as well if they looted there so we should be able to take what the farmers did not take with them.
Other than this valley my friends in Trondheim plans to take over an isle in the fjord they plan to survive on fish and early scavenging.
They are probably the part of my pre z day group with the most military practice.
The difference in group pre z day and after is that pre zday group is who I train with and practice skills, after is who I execute the plans with. the first full halt of expansion will be after we get to the 4 or 5 biggest towns in central Norway. That will be the mid term survival expansion and should have enough that we should be able to survive indefinitely.
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Biointensive Farming
Would you use this? If not, why not? Is there a better system for using less land?
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biointensive
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Mar 28 2011, 2:16 PM EDT by
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Agriculture choices and details
I'm not a farmer, but in a post zday world, I would want sources of agriculture to feed myself and whoever is with me, rather then running the risk of raiding. I would like to know WHAT to plant though. I think being near a nut producing tree would be good (not that you could plant one and hope to survive off of it though), potatoes, Corn , cucumbers, spaghetti squash, etc.
So I was just wondering what will we need to plant and grow any plants, will they support a group of people, and just any details you could add would be appreciated.
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Sep 29 2010, 3:03 PM EDT by Zero/Omni
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self dependance on FOOD
Ok, lets say you've survived, and are looting local stores for food. When you run out (assuming you survive) how will you grow food? Most people here aren't farmers, and can't grow food on a decent scale (NO, gardens don't count, this should AT LEAST be a couple of Acres, unless you think you can feed yourself on a plot of 10 ft by 10 ft until next year's harvest.)
So lets say you travel around, and to your good luck, you find an abandoned farm! There are some cattle, both milk and beef. Now, there's a tractor in the barn, but the house doesn't have any fuel, If you do, how long can you keep it operational? Tractors are gas guzzlers, think about it. So without a tractor, you need a non-mechanized plow. Say by some more good fortune, you found one, But are there any beasts of burden? Say you luck out AGAIN there's some draft horses. do you know how to rig them to the Plow? So if you did, and have plowed the fields, can you plants the seeds, at the right time, can you harvest them at the right time, can you decide which parts are safe to eat, ect, ect? There's only so much you can learn from a book, and FARMING ISN"T ONE OF THEM.
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May 31 2010, 1:50 AM EDT by
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Bee Keeping
Jaqqedrain I'll put everything about beekeeping on this thread to make getting to it easier.
Okay the first step in bee keeping post-z day is you have to have the conditons for the bees to stay in. You'll need to make a box with slates in it, the slates hold the brood=babies and the honeycomb= the raw material from bees for making wax and honey. The box should also be placed on a stand as to stop other animals such as foxs or raccoons from getting into the hive. Also make sure to make a small opening in the front of the box to allow the bees to enter and leave the colony you can cover parts of it up with grass to keep bees inside for some needed reason.
Your box should be about a two feet off the ground for protection from animals you should have about seven slates about three inches apart. The slates need to be a frame of wood or other hard material easy to pick up with a honeycomb design in it for the bees to put the brood in and their honeycomb. I do now know which material you coud use for the honeycomb design it would have to be something like thin metal strands making a honey comb design; chicken wire might be able to work or not but I do not know for sure. One of the slates needs to be next to the entrance as close as possible this will be the queen excluder it will stop your queen from leaving the hive while letting the reast of the bees through. You can use inside the frame a double layer of chicken wire if it is one of the larger types. Have the chicken wire criss-crossing in a layer so that the wire one the second layer goes into the middle of each hole in the first layer making the holes smaller. If its a smaller type that is less then half a inch in diamter but no less then a quarter of an inch in diameter one layer will do.
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May 2 2010, 10:06 AM EDT by
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Repellant Plants
I liked to point out a big flaw in your growing design you do not have any repellant plants unless your using pesticides (in my opinion don't use them unless they are really needed repllant plants can do almost as good as pesticides and doesn't make the food toxic at all as some pesticides do)but if your not you should have a a design with repellant plants
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Apr 30 2010, 8:19 PM EDT by
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Spinach
How to Grow Spinach Spinach is an excellent source of iron, and grows best during autumn, winter and spring – during summer it’ll also grow, but be more likely to get leafspot disease. Planting There are two ways of planting spinach. Direct so
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Apr 27 2010, 4:29 AM EDT by
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How to Grow Tobacco
Tobacco can grow anywhere where there is enough rain for maize, and no frost from July to March (Southern Hemisphere). Preparing the Seedbed Tobacco must be planted in seedbeds and then transplanted in fields. If you make 10 seedbeds each 1mx10
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Apr 5 2010, 3:27 PM EDT by
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How to Grow Onions
Onions are easy to grow, but they're very slow to mature. Fortunately, a well-planned garden can give you enough onions to last the whole year. In the Southern Hemisphere we plant in March and harvest in October. Onions will not grow well in acidic s
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Mar 29 2010, 3:52 PM EDT by
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How To Get a Lot of Food From a Small Garden
This 12x12 garden should produce about 10kg vegetables, 2kg rabbit meat and 5 dozen eggs if properly maintained. Everything can be built from scrap material. It’s ideal for a small compound with an internal, reliable water supply. Depending on the s
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Mar 29 2010, 11:23 AM EDT by
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Farming Post-Z
Farming Post-Z So you’ve survived Z-Day and the Panic. You’ve fought off raiders, chainswarms and every other thing the Apocalypse had to throw at you. Well, that’s just dandy. What were you planning on eating? This section will teach
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May 25 2012, 9:35 PM EDT by
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"Making planters from plastic containers" page discussion thread
This is the disscusion thread for this page: http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/page/Making+planters+from+plastic+containers
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Mar 27 2010, 11:53 PM EDT by
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