[AlpacaTalk] fibre

hi all - i too have donated fleece to the blanket project - last years and will be sending more of this year's clip this next week - i strongly believe in the blanket project and what peter and carol are doing - i have nothing but admiration for them and all their hard work

i sell some of my #1's to spinners here in the valley and keep some for myself to play with - i am sending some #1 and #2 to the new fibre mill in qualicum bay to be processed.

i have found a new use for the scruffy bits and tags, bird's nests and whatnot i usually throw away - i covered my newly planted seeds in the garden with fibre, filled the spaces in between planted rows with fibre and stuffed my tomato cages, all around the plants with fibre. There were numerous benefits to this:
- the fibre acted like a greenhouse and all my seeds came up within a week

- weeds didn't come up between the planted rows

- the cats didn't dig in the nice fresh garden soil

- the racoons didn't bother my garden (they trashed it last year)

- the tomato plants have trunks like small trees, and are huge (and covered in tomatoes)

- best of all the Slugs don't like the feel of the fibre and stay away from my garden. We live in a very wet area and in previous years the slugs have destroyed so many of my plants - this is the first year i've been able to pick enough of my strawberries to do anything with them

I pulled back the fibre as the seedlings emerged, but left it between the rows - i only just pulled the fibre out of the tomato cages last week ( i planted May 24) -

Now i am selling my old fibre bits and this year's fibre bits by the bagful to other gardners - i fertilize with alpaca gold, so you could say i have a totally alpaca garden.(i sell the manure too)
Wendy
DreamWeaver Alpacas

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