I've been doing a little fall / winterizing around the homestead.
My brother is always concerned about to much of my duck pond water getting down to our 1/2 acre pond. So before the steady rains and water movement, I pumped out the duck pond.
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Filled the swales in my Orchard.
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Then the ducks get involved
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They turn it into a rice paddy
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Do mushrooms grow in barleystraw, or do whatever the enzyme that helps to prevent algae also suppress fungal growth? Maybe you could float a bale of barley straw that has been inoculated with mushroom spawn....
Eric, in Japan, some of the "best" rice are grown in the northern prefectures of the main Honshu island and Hokkaido Island. I don't think heat units would be an issue.
Eric, in Japan, some of the "best" rice are grown in the northern prefectures of the main Honshu island and Hokkaido Island. I don't think heat units would be an issue.