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Got me there. I've never grown chickpeas. Regular peas yes.
BTW, very nice looking rich soil. I would bet you have a nice garden every year!
I must confess, that was just a pic I pulled from the internet to illustrate how old I am. Wish my soil did look like that, got a few inches, then it's mostly clay.
And as far as the chickpeas, just trying to make a funny humus/hummus pun. I evidently need to try harder! 😂
Sorry for any confusion. Please keep my username in mind when reading future posts! 😉😄
I think it was it chickpeas that tends to put nitrogen into the soil? I vaguely remember my Dad telling me about them ~50 years ago.
I've got my Dad's old garden area (~75' x 75') with most of a foot of rich loam but a couple monster pine trees grew bigger over the last 40 years and have shaded out a good part of it. I hate to take those trees down but if I ever intend to have a fantastic garden again, they will need to go. Sad, they have been there all of my life and were right in the back yard near the little chicken house. Kind of like taking down old historic monuments. I've been dragging my feet on taking them down.
Wow, that's a big garden! With the chicken house and all, sounds like you have some nice property.
I can sympathize with the tree removal. I have a 50+' maple that has a triple split trunk about 3' from the ground. Had a tree company out here maybe a decade ago. They trimmed off a lot of branches to reduce the weight and put some foam in where the trunks merge to try and stop water going in but, I think it was already too late to help much.
Sorry for the dark pic, it's a crappy day. I know it has to come down, Lord willing before it cracks and falls. Got one trunk for my house and one for each of the neighbor's. Breaks my heart to think of taking it down, it's the only tree I have in my yard, but after looking at it for almost 30 years, it's now starting to really terrify me.
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