March 31, 2013
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Good sheep manure for a happy garden./ Easter : a renascence !
28 Mars 2013
Du bon fumier de mouton pour un heureux jardin.
Good sheep manure for a happy garden
English version below the pictures
Au début de Mars un ami m'a apporté une remorque de fumier de mouton qu'il a déposé au bout de la pelouse derrière la maison.. Il y en avait une bonne quantité.
Après avoir médité sur le travail à faire pour transporter tout cela plus loin dans mon potager , j'ai décidé ,le lendemain de commencer le travail. Mais après le dixième brouette j'ai eu une douleur dans le bas du dos donc je me suis arrêté. Hélas, les jours suivants, c'était la tempête de neige (voir l'entrée précédente) et mon précieux fumier a été couvert et trempé avec de la neige (12/14 Mars).
Toutefois lundi dernier, Mars 25 en inspectant le jardin, j'ai entendu son appel demandant un peu de nourriture. Le fumier était devenu une nécessité urgente. Alors, sans plus d'hésitation, je portais encore 10 brouettes de fumier et le lendemain Mardi Mars 26 j’ai transporté les dix dernières brouettes ( soit 30 en tout ). C’est à ce moment que ma femme a pris des photos. .
J’ entendis mon petit jardin qui me disait « merci , je vous rendrai cela aux beaux jours sous formes de beaux légumes «
La terre est généreuse mais doit être nourrie . On n’ a rien sans travail .
1,2,3, Those three photos speak themselve
Ces trois photos parlent d'elles mêmes . photos Janine Fauquet March 26, 2013.At the beginning of March a friend brought to me trailer of sheep manure that He deposited at end of my back yard ;on the lawn. It was a good amount .
After having meditated on the work to do to carry all of this in my veggie garden farther, I decided the day after to start the work . But after the tenth wheelbarrow I got a pain in my lower back. So I stopped . Alas the days after it was the snow storm ( see the previous entry) and my treasured manure was covered and soaked with snow ( 12 / 14 of March ) .But last Monday March 25 in checking the garden I heard the call of the garden asking a bit of food . The manure was needed . So, without more hesitation , I carried again 10 wheelbarrows of manure and the day after Tuesday March 26, I carried the ten latest wheelbarrows (30 at the total ) . This at this time my wife took a picture .
I heard my little garden saying “thank you , I will return this to you at the good days under the form of beautiful vegetables “
The earth is generous but has to be fed . We have nothing without work.
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March 31 2013
Je vous souhaite d'heureuses Pâques !
I wiwh you a happy Easter
Despite the worries, the hard work , the bad weather or the sickness . may this day be a renascence for you !
Some flowers at church for Easter . Quelques fleurs à l' église pour Pâques En dépit des soucis, du dur travail, du mauvais temps ou même de la maladie, puisse ce jour de Pâques être pour vous une renaissance !
Comments (73)
That looks like cold, hard work! The plants will appreciate it.
The candy on this Mini looks a little like sheep poop.
The best manure comes from a farm - my father swore by it and he always produced wonderful vegetables each year.
You dress nicely when you're laboring in your farm... well, it seems much nicer than what my parents and I wear when we're getting our garden boxes ready, haha.
You will certainly have a successful garden!
@Roadkill_Spatula - Ha! I never would have thought such a thing! Now, every time I see the little candy, I'll think of sheep doing their business! :p
Yes, your garden will thank you for all your hard work and loving care!
I pray there is lots of :sunny: and rain to help the garden grow.
It is a bit early to plant my Summer garden...but I will be doing that in the next few weeks.
HUGS!!!
It is so very true that we must feed our endeavors so that they can blossom. Much love to you and Janine and family
You're lucky to have access to such an excellent fertilizer! I have to buy the packaged stuff if I want it. I do compost my vegetable peels and cores---that's why there is a potato growing in my compost!
You're dressed nicely to spread manure!
Amen! The spinach will be wonderful as it needs the food to be strong and hearty! My gardener friend at work was sad because his supplier of manure had sold his farm and animals. He was lucky though to find another supplier. He is going tomorrow to pick it up - he considers it his penance on Good Friday!
Take care of that back, Michel!
So true and all of your work will be rewarded with blooms and wonderful home grown vegies.
You do good work Michel.
He who listens to the voice of his garden, will prosper. :sunny:
"The Earth is generous, but has to be fed. We have nothing without work." Very wise, indeed.
Lovely post Michel. I need to get some sheep manure for my garden too. I hope some friend can help me with that.
Vous faites beaucoup d'activite physique. Je croyais que vous etes plus en sante que moi et j'ai seulement 22 ans! Felicitations! :coolman:
:heartbeat: :heartbeat: :sunny: :sunny:
Ty so very much for your comments on my calm ocean photos with the sun shining on the water
Can you come over here and give me gardening pointers? I just sorta put things and hope they grow.
We have a small bush to plant tomorrow if there is time.
"Et vous avez effectué cet acte de bonté pour vos légumes futures, sans masque! Fumier de mouton est a un parfum unique, et non pas celle de l'encens flottait jusqu'à ton ciel AMEN"
The Pope Francis has said yesterday to go like a shepherd among to the sheep and smell like sheep. I wonder if the sheep manure smells like sheep too. (I don't remember in my youth using the sheep manure at all, they did they needs in the fields.
You motto should be more the kind of the monks of Saint Benedict "Ora et labora".
The underground roots of the veggies will thank you and pay you back later for your kindness in feeding them, and the soil will be grateful too. You call it "Mon petit jardin" well, it doesen't look "petit" to me. It is very "grand jardin".
Amitié
Carlo
In America we have an expression, "Tote that barge, lift that bale..." and it means long days of physical labor. I think it applies to you! As granny's place said, you are AWESOME! Some day I wish to taste the vegetables from your garden! Bon apetit!
Happy gardens also have happy gardeners. May God bless the fruit of your labors even though it doesn't smell like fruit now!
bonjour Michel,
c'est juste ce qu'il faut pour la terre, la fumaison...
je te souhaite les récoltes abondantes...
amitiés
Both my Grandmas used to put horse manure on their gardens and they always had great crops of vegetables!
Answer to by carlo : Thanks Carlo to recall me " Ora et labora " ( prie et travaille; pray and work ) ). I like it even if I am not a monk of St Benedict
you lay it on very thick. lol lol lol
that looks like a lot of hard work i buy bags of miracle grow soil and mix in the soil. my garden is all planted but nothing is up yet except the sweet basil.
Answer to whyzat : you are right : compost is an important factor for the growth of some solanaceas and especially potatoes .. I will plant potatoes where I put the manure in the garden ( and tomatoes too )
I was just looking at a packet of seeds and dreaming about my garden today! I think it is too cold to be working outside but I suppose the work would warm me up!
D'après une perle ne nait rien, d'après la manure naissent les fleurs...
Joyeuses Paques à vous tous!!!
Sorry, je voulais dire: "d'après le fumier, naissent les fleurs". Happy Easter!
How I wish I were around when the garden produces. I also wish I had a back that let me work and am concerned you to take care.
Hello Michel and I hope you and your family are having a blessed Easter week end. The sunset is off of the dock to the boat launch to the bay. The rails you see in the photo are from the dock going down to the bay.
RYC Thank you so much for your comment! It carried such a good message so that I sat up straight and told myself
"Michel says you are capable of many things so it must be true. Now is the time to use his message to give me courage"
After reading this entry and your email as to your duties for Easter, I wonder how you manage!! You are indeed remarkable!! Please take care of yourself and don't do too much!!.
May the joy of Easter be with you and Janine and a special blessing to your lovely family.
With much love,
Bev
TY for your comments and support to me and Td through this time Michel and you are very much appreciated. he is much better today-Saturday-Macrh 30.
Sheep poo is the best! =D
You have a good rich garden now. We haven't done anything to ours yet. Still waiting on spring weather.
I never feel more wealthy than when I have a nice pile of well composted organics for my garden. It's like money in the bank!
Sadly I throw away most of the chicken manure I clean out of our hen house... though this year I was able to donate one month's cleaning to a community garden so at least some of it went to use. It's pretty good for the soil too, have used it in the past when conditions are wet enough for a garden.
do you actually do gardening and wheel manure in such an elegant outfit??
Nonetheless, I guess its good workout and the results bring about a gorgeous garden just in time for Spring...
you can't beat sheep manure. Do you compost?
A small pain here and there leads to a bountiful harvest later in the year! Many Easter time blessings mon bon monsieur!
Bravos pour tout ce beau labeur accompli
et Joyeuses Pâques en ce jour de repos béni :sunny:
Très cordialement à toute la famille Fauquet :heartbeat:
Jesus Christ has risen today. Let us rejoice!! Happy Easter to you, Michel
A Happy Easter to you and yours!
Oh my goodness, what a huge amount of fertilizer! But I'm glad that you are using organic materials instead of icky chemicals. And considering how beautiful your garden always is and how many veggies are produced, it's well worth all those wheelbarrow loads. I hope that your back isn't bothering you again after that.
Those spring flowers are so pretty and appropriate for Easter decor in church on this holiday. Happy Easter to you and your family!
You requested some photos. I have posted one but you will need to look at it from your "protected" tab. It's 2 of the girls. I hope you had a joyous Easter. :sunny:
J'aime beaucoup cette phrase "La terre est généreuse mais doit être nourrie". Bonne chance a vos legumes!
Merci, merci beautcoup! Happy Easter to you too.
Happy Easter to you! I spent it in St. Petersburg, Florida with my son and his girlfriend and both of their families. It is nice and warm in Florida! (Raining back in Virginia)
Our Easter altar area had the traditional white Easter Lily in two rows. In other churches they have allowed some to be bought in memory or honor of and placed on altars. Some people seem allergic to an over abundant smell of those flowers, so this church doesn't place as many. For some reason this year someone placed plastic eggs and some Easter grass on the altar where communion elements were sitting. That seemed out of place to traditionalists.
A gardener's work is never done.
Happy Easter.
That is a beautiful floral arrangement
RYC: I had a whole philosophical comment typed out and then I lost the comment when my mouse fell and exited out of the screen I was in. It was a really good and thought out comment too. I'm sad.
I did some research and contacted some people. We know the good things that hemp can do such as paper products, rope, clothes, housing, fuel, etc. What some would consider bad would be the observation of the 1960's culture (burnt out brain cells leading to poor judgment) and the fact that the US government illegalized it because the Mexican farmers were able to make money, importing cannabis in due to alcohol prohibition, which we speculate that the political party with clout, was illegally selling alcohol to make large amounts of money. Their money dwindled when another product provided competition. Power indorses greed and it's corruptible. I've witnessed this over and over in my life now. I have two types of suffering. I suffer at the hands of a society who cannot take responsibility for themselves and don't follow the safety rules, so persecution comes to those of us by the acts of a few. I'm at the mercy of the kind and goodhearted people who didn't go into medicine for the money. My second is the spiritual crises that I suffer. Due to the class warfare here in the US and the inability of the US government to provide us with an affordable healthcare plan that we can afford, we fall victims to a form of genocide. Greed corrupts and it's hit the people who keep the pharmacy companies and the doctors who support them, in place. Did you know that our GDP is based off of how many sick people there is because of the amount of jobs it creates? I find that repulsive. So when I came across a video on facebook that told the story of a girl, with an untreatable cancer, who is helped by one tiny plant... I have to ask, did God give us all the tools to sustain life on this Earth? Are we not using it because we are being told by the people in power, that this plant is bad news? If used properly, I'm failing to see the downside here.
Listen to me and my conspiracy theories. They shouldn't have let me go to college. It taught me how to think. btw, even though I'm suffering, I'm happy. I really don't understand it.
"The earth is generous but has to be fed." Indeed--and what a meal! I can't wait to how this garden will look in the summer after all your hard work. We're in the midst of planning our own garden. It will be a modest one this year, but I can't help feeling excited.
g.
RYC: I was talking with someone about the forbidden plants today and they had a valid point. We shouldn't legalize it because it's in a natural, raw state now. Legalized, the corporations would add addictive additives to it because that is what happened to tobacco and cigarettes. He had a point. We've been keeping an eye on this issue since 1999. We've determined that there are no withdrawal symptoms, so mental addiction is possible, but not one volunteer had physical addiction symptoms. However, in the last 14 years, some have completely burned their brain cells and are less intelligent. In reviewing some evidence, we had a couple of cases where cancer patients did extend their life by years after getting a 6 month death sentence. We were told that one is thought to still be alive, but no way to confirm since it was an elderly man and he moved. However, these observations aren't official and only opinions.
I was very interested in the ecovillage video. I know that multiple times, Utopia was attempted at various time intervals here in the US and failed. We do have some ecovillages built in Missouri and it's to be seen if they survive. I do remember that life was simple in the farmlands, growing up. Tractors were about as technical as they got. They say that because of technology, the average college student today has the same mental stress as a schizophrenic patients in the 1950's. I think I can attest to that! I remember everyone freaking out about the Y2K in 1999 and we had just moved back to Iowa. I knew I was going to be ok. My parents had a drinking well, oil lamps, and used a wood stove for heat. However, the crash of humanity never happened, but not to say that it couldn't crash technology. These people in this village are disaster ready!
Dear Michel,
YOU are truly an amazing man!
Such a very hard worker!
I hope that you are no longer
experiencing pain in your back.
I know that your garden will
bless you with good produce for
your blessing the garden with the
sheep manure.
I hope you had a blessed Easter.
Love :heartbeat:
Carolyn
Answer to persephone_winter : In fact , I do not wear special clothes for gardening or various manual works . They are old clothes I wore in my job in the past so they are neccessarily "elegant" . I feel good in them!
For example I have bought the raincoat that I wear to carry the manure thirty years ago (1970's) 
You truly understand the value of hard work, though I am relieved to hear you didn't overdo things and took a rest when you needed to. I am sure your garden will reward you come harvist time!
I hope you, Janine and your family had a wonderful Easter. Many best wishes to you all!
Ty so veyr much for your comment on my easter post and for all of your support through this last go round of hospital stay for TD.
Thank you dear friend for your sweet words about my dogs picture. He was a good dog-we loved him a lot.
I'd bet your garden calls you Mornin Glorie too :sunny: my father in law brought horse manure for my garden last fall...it has been sitting there all winter, on Good Friday I spaded it into my raised beds and planted onions, carrots, beats and potatoes, all root crops as the almanac suggested :yes: the weather was delightful and it felt good to be digging in the soil again... :heartbeat: :heartbeat: :heartbeat: ilym
p.s...If I looked as good as you I would take pictures of my gardening too :rolleyes:
Hope Janine and you had a wonderful Easter. The weather now seems to be changing at long last but its going to be a late spring so its going effect your preparation for the gardne
You do understand nature, feeding plants, and working despite the threat of pain.
blessings
frank
Lovely Easter arrangement... we have a lily plant I'll try to keep alive as long as possible.
Ty so very much Michel and such dysfunction with the ex dil and grandkids.
Mornin Glorie...I must say you gave me quite the laugh this morning
here the women wear panty hose instead of stockings, you may call them tights I think, but we wear them under our skirts or dresses :lookaround: I had a nice navy blue jacket and skirt to wear for Easter but the blouse was ruined, that is why I wore slacks, which were fine but I wanted to wear the skirt and jacket..oh well, things work out. Also I'd not heard of manure rotting the onions 
it makes perfect since :rolleyes: I will let you know how the onions progress, it would really be stinky to have a bunch of rotten stinking onions about 
thank you for your always kind comments dear friend...ilym :heartbeat:
Can't wait to see the vegetables now! Lovely pictures, thanks for sharing. Hope you're having a wonderful week.
RYC: I envy your manure pile!!! We had 16 degree F. this morning. Water in the greenhouse was frozen
Hooray for you for keeping your garden fed and happy. I always have tried to have a garden, even if small at most places where I have lived. Living in apt. doesn't give me a place for a real garden, but I do decorate outside with faux flowers and other decorations from local Dollar Store. They handle well the ups and downs of weather changes in N. TX. From a distance, they resemble real flowers. Re: Easter/Resurrection Sunday, I had a glorious day. Merci beaucoup for your Easter wish. ~~Blessing of the Season
Plants, like humans, need love and nurture to mature and grow.
Beau travail!
Et de plus en plus de moutons dans nos contrées ...
Et même un boucher exotique en Suisse (discrètement bien sûr vu la loi mais présent).
Les cultures changent... et sans prise de conscience générale, le voile pour nos petites-filles, comme ailleurs cela est déjà le cas (Iran, Indonésie, Egypte, etc.
Amitiés :heartbeat:
En effet, si la terre est nouricière, elle ne peut nous rendre que ce qu'on lui apporte. Est-ce que ce type de fumier est du genre... disons... odorant?
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