Beginner Gardening: Recommendations for smaller tiller/WORKHORSE, 1 by NancyGroutsis

NancyGroutsis wrote:
Valal, you're welcome! I was told that Steve doesn't have a minimum order, but I needed a lot of hay to prepare for next year's garden so I got 18 bales. I'm not sure what town he works in but it was in Massachusetts and quite a distance from Hopkinton. Or you might want to consider picking up the hay at his location.

My bunnies like to go out on a leash but it's impossible to train a rabbit to walk on a leash like a dog would. The leash is just to prevent them from getting lost. The silver rabbit and her daughters (Marina and Soleil) were adopted and now I only have two (1st photo). I use rabbit manure to fertilize my garden and it work's great because as far as I know rabbits are the only animals that produce cold fertilizer that can be applied fresh on the garden without composting.

Next to my rabbits are photos of plants that have benefited from their "help". I completely covered my south garden in rabbit manure and hay and now everything I plant their thrives. I had tried growing clematis about five times and failed then I got 1 1/2 flowers from my Earnest Markham planted in a pot last year, but this year when I put it in the south garden it bloomed twice and produced dozens of flowers (2nd photo). There was a white hydrangea in my south garden that stopped blooming for years but with this new soil and updated irrigation system it is blooming again (right side of 3rd photo). My 15" Invincebelle Spirit Hydrangea produced many blooms the first year and the woman who sold it to me was surprised when I told her it had a 7" bloom 2 months after it was planted. In its second season it is 4 ft. high and has been blooming all summer (4th photo).

Nancy G.