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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

We called local contractors and offered to do a little clean-up for them and
haul away the drywall scraps.  It did double purpose for us.

I put drywall behind the rabbit cages and then on a slant under them so all 
the rabbit "gold" would fall to the front half of the cage area and make the 
scooping easier.  Drywall is a natural odor reducers and we had no rabbit 
smell from the urine during the hot summer days.  When the dry wall got well 
"irrigated," we pulled it AND the rabbit "gold" out into the compost heap.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Gypsum was Tillers...was Soil


> > If I busted up a 4x8 sheet, how would you spread that out and how long
> > would you wait until you 'amended' the soil again?
>
> No need to buy sheets of Drywall, just go buy bags of Gypsum unless you
> have
> a pile of scrap drywall left over. Gypsum is best for heavy clay soil.
> The
> gypsum helps break up the bonding and loosens the soil.  In heavy adobe I
> added gypsum every year.
>
> Speaking of post homes, I did that in the adobe we called soil.  In some
> areas a hand post hole digger worked after I wet the soil the first couple
> of inches then it hit rocks.  In other areas I was able to use a powered
> digger and a garden hose unless there were rocks.  In most of the 1200'
> fence I rented a Skid Steer with an auger on the front.  On many holes I
> had
> the front wheels off the ground and still the auger just spun moving a
> little dirt.  The only time to dig in that stuff was after several weeks
> of
> rain.
>
> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>
>
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