Minnesota Outdoorsman
General Category => Lawn & Garden => Topic started by: glenn57 on March 03/09/16, 09:33:18 AM
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has offically started for me. seed catalog in hand. bought seeds a while back and last night I raked up the mulch I put over some flowers, my horseradish and winter onions. thinkin of headed over towards new London to take mulch off my garlic!
hada little campfire too last sunday!!!!!!!
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I just sent in my order for some Russian pickle seeds, but I forgot to add the ghost pepper seed order.... :banghead: doah!
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I still have 40 gallons of potatoes the wife has to figure out what to do with.
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I still have 40 gallons of potatoes the wife has to figure out what to do with.
My taters are sprouting in the barrel, gonna have to use them for seed.
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Yeah I save some for seed every year. Those giant genetics I have to keep around. When one potatoes makes enough fries for a family of four its a winner. :happy1:
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I still have 40 gallons of potatoes the wife has to figure out what to do with.
VODKA??
Maybe next year I can get a few for seed? We make fries lots,but also like my reds as new tatters UMM!!
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Dew you are welcome to stop over any time and pick some up :happy1:
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looks like the tater farmers were busy in the fields this past weekend. I turned over the top soil on my horseradish, flower bed and rubarb/winter onion patch, thru on 10-10-10 raked it in and wet down................its a start!!!!!!
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looks as though spring may come after all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Just using up the last of the red onions from last years garden. Now it snowing like he!!.
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Anybody put their taters in yet?
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Not yet here in Nodak, hoping for some rain this weekend then maybe next week. I got a Middle buster plow for my old Ford 8N this year so will probably plant a lot more spuds than the past.
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Anybody put their taters in yet?
the tater farmers around Monticello were balls to the wall planting them today!!
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I have not and I never get in much of a hurry. I'll plant them this weekend or the next or the next. It never seems to matter around here. I don't think I'm going to plant as many this year. Anyone need seed potatoes ;)
When can I stop by an get some?
surgery was set for the 25th Next monday, Last Dr physical pre op, I was asked if rehab did anything,I said never had any! A quick call to the surgeon and I am now going to Phys Therapy/Rehab WHEW!! Anything other than another 1 1/2 years on my butt!!
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OOPS!!! General
When can I stop by an get some?
surgery was set for the 25th Next monday, Last Dr physical pre op, I was asked if rehab did anything,I said never had any! A quick call to the surgeon and I am now going to Phys Therapy/Rehab WHEW!! Anything other than another 1 1/2 years on my butt!!
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Just call me and we can work it out
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Taters are in.
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Nice!! Getting a good soaker here. Maybe next week get mine in. What kind of compact tractor have u got General? Hp? Happy with it, easy to change oil, maintain? Thinking of retiring my 52' 8N and upgrading to hydrostatic 4 wheel of some type.
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Corny it's 23 horse Massey Ferguson. It's my second one. First one was 10 years old and not one problem. This one I got last summer with the drive over mower deck. The snow blower is still from the first machine. I personally know of 6 guys with this exact machine and not one problem. This I know because my dad is the guy they call to fix their stuff. Changing fluids is a cake walk.
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I down sized my tater bed, cause I had way to many left over from last year. But, we have them in the ground.
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Plenty of seed tatoes left over....
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Nice job. The wife and I peeled, cut, blanch, vacuum packed, 50 gallons of taters today. All ready for another year of The General's famous breakfast.
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Russian cukes & ghost pepper seeds are planted in the green house box!
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Taters are in.
so do you plant by hand or you got a tater planter? also do you dig by hand? dat looks like a lot of spuds!!!!!!!!!!
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Russian cukes & ghost pepper seeds are planted in the green house box!
so what da he!! is a Russian cuke????????????
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Nice job. The wife and I peeled, cut, blanch, vacuum packed, 50 gallons of taters today. All ready for another year of The General's famous breakfast.
never did that to spuds?????I usually boil up in jackets. then peel shred in cake pan freeze for hash browns!
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Russian cukes & ghost pepper seeds are planted in the green house box!
so what da he!! is a Russian cuke????????????
A special kind of cuke with real small seeds. Just the seeds alone usually cost around 5 bucks for 10 seeds. But, I have never found a better one for pickling!
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We started some tomato's and peppers.
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Russian cukes & ghost pepper seeds are planted in the green house box!
so what da he!! is a Russian cuke????????????
A special kind of cuke with real small seeds. Just the seeds alone usually cost around 5 bucks for 10 seeds. But, I have never found a better one for pickling!
couldn't you keep some seeds from one of the cukes you grew?
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Yup Glenn, I usually do keep the seeds from my ghost peppers and cukes...but somehow they got misplaced this year and I had to buy new. :cry:
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Damn!! :doah: :doah: just charge the general more for fishing lessons next trip. :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Well I think I've got all the gardens tilled this year after heading over to Glenn's tonight. Congrats to him and his wife. I left thinking how she could put up with him this long. :happy1: happy gardening :happy1:
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Thanks a ton for the till job. It's much appreciated!! :happy1:
Yep she put up with me for 26 years now. I'd tell ya why but it's a family site. :laughroll: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: ;)
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Seeds will hit the dirt starting Friday!
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Wow, General is practically a farmer. I could use a small tractor at my land. So far I can manage my gardens with the wheeler and a digger.
Nothing planted in the garden yet but do have some seed started in pots.
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Deadeye if you ever need it for something just let me know is be glad to help ya. No charge except a cold one when the job is done. :happy1:
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Deadeye if you ever need it for something just let me know is be glad to help ya. No charge except a cold one when the job is done. :happy1:
only one????? ya charged me 24!!!!!!! :coffee: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :sorry: just rassin ya!! thanks again.
got radishes, sweet corn, spinach, lettuce, onions and kolorabi in the dirt yesterday. also got fertilizer in the lawn.
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anyone picking asparagus yet? or is it too early. my patch is 30 miles away so would like a little advance notice. I did however clean some winter onions yesterday.
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I have about 6 sprigs up around 10 inches tall in my patch.
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thanks HD! lookin like a road trip is in order for Monday or Tuesday nite!
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Asparagus is up in my garden, got the taters in this am before it started raining and I went fishing! :happy1:
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anyone picking asparagus yet? or is it too early. my patch is 30 miles away so would like a little advance notice. I did however clean some winter onions yesterday.
Ours started about 7-10 days ago,Got lots and this overnight rain is gonna make it out of control! Had it wit crappie once sunfish once,bacon wrapped.
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yea I am gonna head out to my patch tonite or tomorrow for sure. otherwise I gotta wait a week.
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anyone picking asparagus yet? or is it too early. my patch is 30 miles away so would like a little advance notice. I did however clean some winter onions yesterday.
We picked our first batch of asparagus this past weekend and ate it last night.
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well I will see tonite if its crop failure time!!!!!! thanks for the info!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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well I will see tonite if its crop failure time!!!!!! thanks for the info!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE got so much so fast Sandy gave some to one of her employers and his neighbor,The neighbor gives us fresh eggs at times! If you dont get there I know where the patch is!!!! Maybe I'll ask the general if he wants to go for a short driive?? :scratch: :moon:
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:rotflmao: :rotflmao:go if you dare. The property owners have itchy trigger fingers. Especially the misses! :doah:
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well I will see tonite if its crop failure time!!!!!! thanks for the info!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE got so much so fast Sandy gave some to one of her employers and his neighbor,The neighbor gives us fresh eggs at times! If you dont get there I know where the patch is!!!! Maybe I'll ask the general if he wants to go for a short driive?? :scratch: :moon:
I'm in. This trigger finger is just as itchy.
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:rotflmao: :rotflmao:save your gas it's gonna be a bit yet; :surrender:
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I planted my winter onions on Saturday. Glenn57 was nice enough to send me the sets. They should grow now with the rain we've had. I gave ya an applaud for bein' such a good guy.
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I planted my winter onions on Saturday. Glenn57 was nice enough to send me the sets. They should grow now with the rain we've had. I gave ya an applaud for bein' such a good guy.
thanks man!!!!!!! as you can see I gotz haters too!!!!!!!!! lol. enjoy them winter onions!!!!!!! glad someone can use them as I hate to see that stuff go to waste!
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I planted my winter onions on Saturday. Glenn57 was nice enough to send me the sets. They should grow now with the rain we've had. I gave ya an applaud for bein' such a good guy.
thanks man!!!!!!! as you can see I gotz haters too!!!!!!!!! lol. enjoy them winter onions!!!!!!! glad someone can use them as I hate to see that stuff go to waste!
Glenn I gave you another +. Warms my heart to help out a little fella such as yourself :happy1:
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LOL!!!!!!!!! Gave you one too for dat one!!!!!!! seems I gain one then loose one...................sure wish boar had better things to do!!!!!!!!!!! :doah: training-087 :banghead: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Covered all my plants tonite! May just leave it on till Sunday also.
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smite....
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smite....
thank you!!!!!!!!!you #(*&%^$# putz!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :happy1: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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The gardens are tilled, and we have taters popping up. Not putting plants in the ground yet, till this frost stops. But, I did put some seeds in.
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Our tatters have been up for a time now,The ole girl put em in Then got some a those giants fron the general she planted them and their poppin up.Late start on seed but its so cold!! Snowed yesterday an 30 degrees this morn! All started seed is on the dining room table.
NEWSFLASH!!!!!! Glenn I gave you yer 40th smite>>>>>>Yer welcome EH!
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thank you!!!!!!!*&#$%@# :doah: :banghead: :party1: training-087 :rotflmao: :rotflmao: must be cause im such a loveable guy!!!!!!!!!!! :moon: :moon: ;D ;D
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Our tatters have been up for a time now,The ole girl put em in Then got some a those giants fron the general she planted them and their poppin up.Late start on seed but its so cold!! Snowed yesterday an 30 degrees this morn! All started seed is on the dining room table.
NEWSFLASH!!!!!! Glenn I gave you yer 40th smite>>>>>>Yer welcome EH!
yea well ya got one for that comment in the contest signup thread.............haha!!!!!!!!! :moon: :moon:
dang now gotta wait an hour to hit boar!!!!!!!! :bonk: :bonk: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Our tatters have been up for a time now,The ole girl put em in Then got some a those giants fron the general she planted them and their poppin up.Late start on seed but its so cold!! Snowed yesterday an 30 degrees this morn! All started seed is on the dining room table.
NEWSFLASH!!!!!! Glenn I gave you yer 40th smite>>>>>>Yer welcome EH!
yea well ya got one for that comment in the contest signup thread.............haha!!!!!!!!! :moon: :moon:
dang now gotta wait an hour to hit boar!!!!!!!! :bonk: :bonk: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
No Problemo HEY!! I'll tag him for ya he seems to be behind you anyway! I see yer at 41 now I did 40 cause I dont like odd numbers and 41 is a odd number!!UMM should I do boar or get yers back to a even number???????
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Getting the box planted. ..
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I just checked tonight and all my frosted taters are coming back :happy1:
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I wasn't real sure but thought they would. Been a long time since I planted spuds but kinda remember once in a while cut worms use to do a number on them and they came back.
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Great minds think a like HD, second year on the waste high garden. It sure is nice to cover early on for the seeds or if frost is in the forecast. The boy made the 6 dollar trellis, not bad.
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Great minds think a like HD, second year on the waste high garden. It sure is nice to cover early on for the seeds or if frost is in the forecast. The boy made the 6 dollar trellis, not bad.
I like it! :happy1:
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Didn't think I would get it done but the gardens are planted. Almost didn't make the Memorial Day cutoff. The squash, pumpkins, gords, tomatos, potatoes, oinons, peppers, canna lilies, gladiolas, and cukes got planted today. Long day but wanted to get it done in time for the rain.
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I am pretty well finished also. I still have to transplant melons under row covers yet. Also have to plant my third batch of sweet corn next week. The fourth batch around June 15 and the last batch the end of June......Sweet corn from the last week of July through Sept.
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ive nuthing in. dont know iff ill make it this year with a garden.
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took a good peek at the garden last night. things are progressing nicely. the winter onions are staring to get the seed packs on them so there are done for the year.
appears I will be done with asparagus as I wont get a chance to check then till late next week.
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took a good peek at the garden last night. things are progressing nicely. the winter onions are staring to get the seed packs on them so there are done for the year.
appears I will be done with asparagus as I wont get a chance to check then till late next week.
You know I could help with that.
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go ahead..i don't care!!!!!! just gotta talk to my friend so you don't get a load of buckshot!!!!!! take some winter onions!!!!!!
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go ahead..i don't care!!!!!! just gotta talk to my friend so you don't get a load of buckshot!!!!!! take some winter onions!!!!!!
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thinkin I will be filing crop failure paperwork with the insurance company on my green beans and kalarabi!!!gonna need to replant some!!!!!!!
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Another working weekend. ....the gardens have all been tilled for weeds, and the zucchini have been barricaded against the onslaught of deer... lol!
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Great minds think alike. I tilled and hilled up the taters today. Wow they grew like weeds the last week.
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$^^$###$%^# deer got me a few days ago. They got me bad. :bonk: :censored: :censored: :censored:
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HD, Wow, that's some barricade. That should keep out charging elephants.
My gardens are way behind (except the flowers) due to my late planting. I'm
sure they will catch up when it gets hot out.
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got the garden weeded, cans off all the plants, replanted some green beans, carrots and kalarabi.
the green beans where an heirloom and half the bag of seeds were broken and crushed. pretty disappointed in them. I amy not have many beans this year which sucks. I can or pickle most of them.
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We planted our garden this past weekend also. We planted six tomato and six pepper plants that we hard started in the house earlier this spring. Then we planted a couple rows of green beans, a row of carrots, a row of radishes, two rows of sweet corn, a few squash, a few cucumbers, and a couple zucchinis.
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Lawn and garden got a well needed drink of water tonite!! :happy1: :happy1:
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2 and 2/10ths here so far. :happy1:
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We had a very short break and went to look see. Had just a bit over an inch but it's still raining.
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Just finished vegetable garden planting today. Put nitrogen on and tilled everything as the lambsquarter and waterhemp were starting to get ugly. My leftover sweet corn seed didn't pan out so well so had a do-over with some fresh seed. Planted another area to sweet corn as well since I had plenty of seed and don't want to carry over any more than necessary. Also stuck in a couple rows of string beans about 30' long so that should give the bunnies something to nosh. Will have to start carrying my blunderbuss. :fudd: Tomatoes are really starting to hit their stride and the muskmelons seemed to appreciate the weeding I gave them. Would be nice to get some good ones again for a change.
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I keep my sweet corn seed in the refrigerator and it seems to retain its germination.
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Keeping it cool yet above freezing is never a bad idea.This seed also had a heavy dose of neonicotinoid seed treatment (imadacloprid) on it which may not have helped. Tingles a little if you get it on your fingers. At least I don't have crabs though! 😎 Usually I remember to get new stuff from the local seed dealer but I usually wait until all his paying customers are taken care of first. They had Ambrosia, a 75 day bicolor SE so got that. Had it 10 years ago probably and it was decent.
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Seeded my last 2 batches of sweet corn today. Should be ready in Sept. I have 5 batches seeded about 2 weeks apart. Grandkids love this stuff.
Northern Xtra Sweet....67 days
Mirai 148 Y.......72 days.
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Stuff is getting big!
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garden is doing great.................except the green beans!!!!!!!!! ^&$#@*&^!!!!!!!!! filling out the crop failure paperwork tonite.
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I'm going to the FSA office tomorrow to see I qualify for anything... while in MN for a long weekend baseball size hail hit my garden..ugh! :censored:
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Tilled garden 4 days later...
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Best looking Tomato plant.. :bonk:
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So sorry Bill. Hope you had crop insurance.
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Wow that bites. Sorry to hear. Maybe my green beans failure isn't so bad after all.
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Dang corny sorry that happened to you. Can you replant?
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Sucks for sure. I haven't had time to tend the gardens since planting them. I was kind of hoping for hail to trash the weeds. I have time today so I plan to have a look see and tackle the weeds. Wish me luck, i'm going in......
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Luck is wished :happy1:
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There are some plants in there after all. I was too embarrassed to take a before picture. I had to decide if would let the weeds or deer have there way with this garden. I can't do much about the deer but I could pull the weeds. It took a while but maybe I salvaged some plants from the weeds.
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Looks good deadeye!
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We finally got our big garden all in yesterday, a couple of weeks later then usual but we did miss out on the big storm we had here so it may have worked out for the best. Still have the gutter garden to put in, this weekend, but stuff grown in there will be harvested before the stuff planted in the ground. You guys down south are always so much farther ahead of us Northern guys! :doah:
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With all these weeds, there just has to be some garden plants in there.
This is a before picture of my pumpkin, gourds, and squash patch. I know they are in there because
I put them there.
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Several long hot hours later my arms are like rubber but the plants emerged. Victory was mine.
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Garden is looking great especially the taters.
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Those look great, naw no replanting if anything grows back it will have to do. My potatoes had looked like the generals I'm hoping the hail helped them!
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Garden looks good general! Must be the tiller guy!! :happy1: ;)
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Those look great, naw no replanting if anything grows back it will have to do. My potatoes had looked like the generals I'm hoping the hail helped them!
I am starting to do the Corny. I've been picking all the flowers before they bloom and smack up the leaves a bit with a rake. I did smash my first potatoe bugs yesterday on one plant. I didn't see any others.
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Tilled between the taters again, and tilled the pepper garden. Also, the pickle box is full!
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my green beans are toast....gone. so I will be begging for green beans again this year!!!!!
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my green beans are toast....gone. so I will be begging for green beans again this year!!!!!
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My fillet green beans are flowering right now.....should be eating them soon.
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my green beans are toast....gone. so I will be begging for green beans again this year!!!!!
Well, if as an "onion thug" (pun intended) you travel through the area this summer later, we've got two rows about 30' long that should bear in August. Bring a cooler and you'd be welcome to some. :happy1:
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GAWD................this humidity bites!!!!!!!!! 0 looks good right now!!!!!!!!
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my green beans are toast....gone. so I will be begging for green beans again this year!!!!!
Excellent!! Take all you want!!! Never found a use for those things, anyway!!! ;D
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my green beans are toast....gone. so I will be begging for green beans again this year!!!!!
Excellent!! Take all you want!!! Never found a use for those things, anyway!!! ;D
there really good in my pickle brine!!!
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The garden sure liked that 1 1/2 inches of rain but I was out of power for 4 hours tonight seen a funky looking wall cloud on the way home. With hail included.
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My garden took a but of a beating but should be ok. The garden shed tipped over and is in need of some repairs. I just turned the generator on and plugged in the beer fridge. No power here since 4pm and it's still not back on.
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Got your green beans planted Monday before the rain glenn. Won't reb be proud? Anyway, if the weather stays warm and we continue getting timely rains, it may finally be worth taking a photo or two. Such a weedy mess and some holes in the vine crop area where old seed and cucumber beetles took their toll. Bastages!
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Inch of rain here 2 nights ago. Pulled the first red beets tonight. Peas are almost done for the year. Wind blew over the corn. Starting to stand back up again. Lost almost all my apples off one of my trees.
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Got cukes coming out my ears. Almost got enough regular pickles for a couple batches of dill pickles. Peppers are coming along nicely, many already picked. Zucchini....not so much....plants are huge, but not producing. Lost one tomato plant to some blight or something....plants next to it are producing well.
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That's pretty impressive to have cukes already. Ours are flowering right along now but it will be a few weeks probably. Muskmelons look pretty decent but it'll be September probably. Jalapenos setting well as are the green zucchini. Yellow one not so much. Garden overall is liking this heat and rain thing. Gets to be mid-month and hopefully I can start planting some fall radishes, salad greens and snap peas. Got some nooks and crannies that should work well for that. Not much a guy can do right now other than gawk at it though. One giant mass of sticky black poo! :bonk:
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Dotch, a really good friend of the family has a huge green house, so I have a little jump start on the cukes, tomatoes, peppers and zucchini. And they live less than a mile from the ranch. Pretty convenient.
I do a lot of pickles, so it helps a great deal on production. :happy1:
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Ya HD, I wasn't able to get a lot of my stuff planted in flats in the greenhouse like I have in years past. Makes a big difference. The vine crops with the exception of the zucchini and one watermelon were all direct seeded. The 'maters and peppers were transplants, crippled packs (3 instead of 4 in a pack deals) from the greenhouse the wife works for. They look good and the price was right. :happy1:
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man my garden is off the charts. mater plants are 5ft tall with lotz of maters on them. gonna harvest my cabbage tonite. got pepper plants I need to stake up cause there is so many peppers its tipping the plant over. got kalarabi stickin outta my ear.
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man my garden is off the charts. mater plants are 5ft tall with lotz of maters on them. gonna harvest my cabbage tonite. got pepper plants I need to stake up cause there is so many peppers its tipping the plant over. got kalarabi stickin outta my ear.
Any of those peppers the sweet Hungarian Margrets?? I sure hope so! You'll never plant any other sweet peppers once you taste em.
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man my garden is off the charts. mater plants are 5ft tall with lotz of maters on them. gonna harvest my cabbage tonite. got pepper plants I need to stake up cause there is so many peppers its tipping the plant over. got kalarabi stickin outta my ear.
Any of those peppers the sweet Hungarian Margrets?? I sure hope so! You'll never plant any other sweet peppers once you taste em.
all of them are the seeds you gave me!!!!!!!!!!!!
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so the last few weeks I've been waging war on bunnies. seen 2 youngins and momma. set a livetrap................the 2 youngins are across the river but live and well...........I think. anyways I get home Friday nite and looks from a distance there's a squirrel......dead....in the live trap. as I get closer well real close here it is..........a possum!!!!!!! never woulda thunk it. anyways its now garden fertilizer!!!!!!!!
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That is precisely what possums are good for! :fudd:
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I've found my gardening peaks about the time I plant the seeds. I'm so new to this that it's a trial and error thing. Last summer I was a radish king and now I'm all about snow peas. There's a lot of crop failure but a ton of hope. Maybe my best plan is for the squash I planted at the cabin. Just kind of leave it alone and if one grows I will enjoy it with some grouse breast in the Fall.
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hey ll ho2es it going. im a squash fan, love butter cup. love.sweet taters to. didnt get much in this year few tomat, and a few peps. not doing to go either. o well, dont like gardeni g all that much anyway, no time for it.
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hey ll ho2es it going. im a squash fan, love butter cup. love.sweet taters to. didnt get much in this year few tomat, and a few peps. not doing to go either. o well, dont like gardeni g all that much anyway, no time for it.
kinda like your fishing!!!! Ya don't do well there either!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :swords: :swords: :laughroll: :laughroll: :laughroll:
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howes that picture posting coming along....
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We ate our first harvest of green beans tonight. Mmmm delicious!
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I pulled some peppers and onions this past week. Garden is on auto pilot and the deer are really liking it. I didn't know they like the tater tops so much. Now if I could just get them to stop stomping the onions...
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Make a path and put up a sign that says deer trails. ;)
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put a deer stand near it, that usually keeps them away. Heck, hang a shirt you've worn out there. It may keep them away and/or make them use to your scent and associate it with good vittles and come deer season they will come running to get shot! Probably a billion dollar idea I just gave away.
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Man our tomatoes are 1.5 ' tall. Our peppers are less than a foot. Maybe too much rain. ?????? We do have some tiny tomatoes on the plants though. Maybe I will have to do a Glenn hot pickling recipe with them.... ??? The deer are not at our patch..
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Picked the first cuke of the season, finally. Not bad for having been direct seeded May 22nd. ;D
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dotch...........I always plant cukes direct from seed and have plenty. picked about 8 already!!!!!
LPS......... my mater plants are close to 6 ft tall. lol!!!
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Our cukes are just starting to climb on the gate we put by them. Maybe the vine is 3' long. Tomatoes may be 2.5' tall Max. Like I said there are little ones on them so that is positive. The peppers are small too. But all look healthy. We had so much rain. We haven't watered since we planted things and the ground is still moist. This hot weather may kick start them. We have lots of time yet. :happy1:
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Somewhat the same here. I moved things around in the garden this year. Sort of like a farmer rotating the corps. Cukes are small and haven't really spread out yet. Don't know why. Some tomatoes are going strong but some seem stunted. Not sure if it's the new area they are in or just the way it goes sometime.
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cukes are starting to pile up. kalarbi are plentlifull and some as big as softballs but surprisingly mot woody.......yet. carrots looking good. getting a cherry mater or 2, other maters slowly coming and green peppers.....best I had in 3-4 year!!!!!
the plan this weekend while having a few refreshments and a campfire is to pull the rest of the dill and get the onions outta da ground!!!!!!
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Cukes are starting to motor. Some nice jalapenos coming too. Need to find my refrigerator pickle recipe again. Tossing some jalapenos in with the cukes and onions puts hair on your chest. Have to do more manscaping that way though! :doah:
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the maters are starting to accumulate!!!!!!!! cukes are looking pretty bleek and will soon need to beg for more. green peppers are going wild!!!!!!!!!
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Green beans starting to really roar. Good thing there's no shortage of takers. Even people wanting zucchini. Unheard of! May even have to sell to the highest bidder. Right now if they'd mow my lawn they could have 'em. Little do they know it's a 5 - 6 hour process. 'maters are starting to come back online. Cloudy wet weather doesn't seem to be to their liking. August has started out drier so we'll see how they do. Gotta find some time and seed some fall garden too now it's dried enough to do it. Fall greens, peas and radishes are the bomb! (c'mon LL, I know yer out there!) ;)
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The taters have all died off and I'll start digging as needed but like to leave them in the dirt as long as possible. The wife is canning pickles and the zuccini are popping. The peppers I got from dew are starting to take shape. :happy1:
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I got some pepper seeds from dew also and there going gang busters!
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Was happy to pick the first of what I hope is many muskmelons last night. Have had good luck some years and not so good luck other years with them so will be interesting to see how it tastes. Planted snap peas as well as both winter and spring type radishes ahead of the rain. Plenty of moisture already so we should be set without too much more for a while.
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Yowezerr, that's a nice melon you got there Dotch.
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Yowezerr, that's a nice melon you got there Dotch.
yes she has!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :happy1: ;) :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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I like a large variety of melons... :happy1:
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Uh...never mind. ;) Nice cantaloupe, Dotch!
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Picked some sweet corn last nite! Mater's are starting to really ripen. That rain was awesome for the garden. Was getting pretty dry. Not to mention replenished my rain water supply!
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The wife is about done with our garden. She has enough pickles and green beans canned. Now it's just the maters, peppers, and onions for salsa.
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Devoured some of that melon last night. Very good for the first one. Hopefully they keep coming now. Will have to take inventory while Mrs. Cheviot is gone. Looked like more 'maters coming so there probably needs to be some bacon and lettuce in my future. :happybounce:
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Devoured some of that melon last night. Very good for the first one. Hopefully they keep coming now. Will have to take inventory while Mrs. Cheviot is gone. Looked like more 'maters coming so there probably needs to be some bacon and lettuce in my future. :happybounce:
Haveta back the BLM movement, ya know. Bacon, lettuce, 'mato. ;D
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watch it general............advertising you have green beans....Rebs just around the corner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my cukes are on there death bed. still haven't received the crop loss check yet for the green beans. plenty of maters to be had. the peppers are crazy!!!!!!!!!!
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watch it general............advertising you have green beans....Rebs just around the corner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No prob. I've got the coordinates and called in an air strike. ;D
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watch it general............advertising you have green beans....Rebs just around the corner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No prob. I've got the coordinates and called in an air strike. ;D
Make sure the air strike tills it up nice :happy1:
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he'd miss anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Look out, ya little blue munchnik, or I'll blow a load of green beans all over ya! ;)
By the way, The Early Girl are really kickin' in this week. Finally!!! BLT' s just over the horizon..... :dancinred:
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My garden is going strong. August is the best month if you are a gardener. Finished my second batch of corn. Number 3 should start in a few days. Green beans are done. What's left will be for next years seed. Picked the first Sun Jewel melons today. Lots of Tomatoes for canning. Peppers are really slow this year for me. Not enough heat I guess. Way to many zucchini as usual.
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Same here. Tomatoes are rolling along, the string beans, zucchini, and cukes ditto. 1st sweet corn of the year. Ambrosia, a 75 day bicolor SE, planted June 12th. It's young but ready to eat after only 64 days. It has been a warm summer overall with ample rainfall in generally measured amounts. About 50 measurable rainfall events since the last week in March. Radishes planted August 11th before the rain were emerging already on the 14th. Peas have germinated. but could use some help from the forecast rain tomorrow to emerge. The rain on the 12th was a pounder so there is a crust.
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by sunday the mater plants I have left will be yanked out. that will leave only carrots and kalarabi left in da garden for 2016.. kinda sucks come to think of it!!!!
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Why are you yanking yer 'maters out now?!?!?
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gonna do it on sunday, by then I wont have any maters left on the vines, they will all be ripe enough to pick. when completely ripe or real close to it I put them in the frig to slow down the process. except maybe my supersweet 100!!!
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IN THE FRIDGE?!??!?!?!?! MATERS???!?!?! AHHHH MY GAWD................................ :doah: ROONY!!! HELP!!!!!
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Still have some string beans to pick yet but the mosquitoes are really dampening my enthusiasm to pick them. I did get some mosquito nets that are reasonably helpful. Squash vines are toast so may as pick 'em, save a few to eat fresh and freeze the rest. Otherwise I suspect they aren't going to keep as wet as it's been. Muskmelon crop was a bust. Wet weather = no flavor. Sheep seem to like them however. Still some tomatoes yet but this will be their last hurrah methinks. The plants will likely stay in the ground though as muddy as it is after the latest monsoon.
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IN THE FRIDGE?!??!?!?!?! MATERS???!?!?! AHHHH MY GAWD................................ :doah: ROONY!!! HELP!!!!!
if you had as many as I have you'd be putting them in the frig to.
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IN THE FRIDGE?!??!?!?!?! MATERS???!?!?! AHHHH MY GAWD................................ :doah: ROONY!!! HELP!!!!!
if you had as many as I have you'd be putting them in the frig to.
Make sauce and KATCHUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or skin, chunk, and zip-loc bag freeze 'em!
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the maters I have left will be consumed by the end of next week. one more meal of BLT'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I just took some bacon out to have those for lunch!!!! ;D
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YOU put katchup on those too??????????????????
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:doah:
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Dyhidrating more peppers tonight, Anaheim and Jalapeño.
Tomorrow will be Ghost and Scorpion.
Picking cukes for salad tonight. Have some late season peas coming along, I have some that will be added to the mix along with some radish.
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man HD..............you must go thru the peppers!!!!!!!!!! specially da smoking ones!!!!!!!!
my garden will be tomato free by the weekend. still have some carrots and kalarbi left but they are getting down there.
sometime here in the next 3 weeks depending on the weather forecast I gotta get my garlic replanted!!!!!!!!!
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Whacked down the sweet 100 'mater plant this afternoon. Early Girl is still putting out fruit, so I'll hold off 'til the 1st frost, and wrap up all the green ones to ripen downstairs. Now, if I could fin=d someone blowing out Turfbuiler for $9 a bag, I'd be happy. Happens every Fall; just have to catch it, as it's gone in a day usually.
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Yes, I do Glendale...... and you can tell the difference when dyhidrating Jalapeño and Scorpion. The air just SMELLS of heat, enough to make you cough and make yur eyes water. Oooofffftttaaaa....
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Whacked down the sweet 100 'mater plant this afternoon. Early Girl is still putting out fruit, so I'll hold off 'til the 1st frost, and wrap up all the green ones to ripen downstairs. Now, if I could fin=d someone blowing out Turfbuiler for $9 a bag, I'd be happy. Happens every Fall; just have to catch it, as it's gone in a day usually.
quit being such a tightass! Spend a little less on the neighbor lady!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :laughroll: :laughroll: :sorry:
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Hauled in all the pumpkins, gourds, and squash. Mowed down what was left and the "pumpkin hill" is ready for winter. Still have some taters to dig and then it's done for the year. The deer had a good feast this year.
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Whacked down the sweet 100 'mater plant this afternoon. Early Girl is still putting out fruit, so I'll hold off 'til the 1st frost, and wrap up all the green ones to ripen downstairs. Now, if I could fin=d someone blowing out Turfbuiler for $9 a bag, I'd be happy. Happens every Fall; just have to catch it, as it's gone in a day usually.
quit being such a tightass! Spend a little less on the neighbor lady!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :laughroll: :laughroll: :sorry:
Hey, ya lop-eared mutt, us poor folk gotta do what we gotta do to get by! I just remodeled that downstairs, new carpet, new 'fridge, new furniture...I'll be in debt until the cowz come home or you wise up! (not betting on that one) Not rolling in that "union dues jing" like some folk..... :scratch: ;D
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good morning to you to Reb!!!!!!!!!!!
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Why, good morning to you too, Glenn! Cock-a-doodle-doo! :rotflmao: ;D
https://youtu.be/rzHcTRC4ggc
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Dyhidrating more peppers tonight, Anaheim and Jalapeño.
Tomorrow will be Ghost and Scorpion.
Picking cukes for salad tonight. Have some late season peas coming along, I have some that will be added to the mix along with some radish.
OK HD how did you go about growing cukes this time of year>>>>>>>> planting some later????? I need to know this trick.
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Dyhidrating more peppers tonight, Anaheim and Jalapeño.
Tomorrow will be Ghost and Scorpion.
Picking cukes for salad tonight. Have some late season peas coming along, I have some that will be added to the mix along with some radish.
OK HD how did you go about growing cukes this time of year>>>>>>>> planting some later????? I need to know this trick.
Not sure what you mean smurf..... I feed my plants a lot of crap and they produce into the fall
Cukes just need fertilizer, they suck a lot out of the ground. If it ain't there, they just die off.
I just took this pic today, and picked 3 more. Yup, they are coming to the end....but only if we get a frost.
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So first what do you use for fertilizer? My cukes were toast by mid August. I know they like water to. Was just thinking you may have planted at different times??? :scratch:
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Mine are still producing......well that was until I mowed them all over last night. Now the only thing left is to dig the taters and till. I usually leave the taters in the ground as long as I can. Fertilizer I get from a turkey barn or I bring in a soil sample to the local plant and they mix me up what I need.
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G, i use to get manure/fertilizer from a turkey farm to but that appeared to have more by products then the good stuff so i quit using it. use to get cow dung but wholly hannah da weeds.
this year i am going to put all my maple leaves in these big contractor bags, add some water and used coffee grounds, tie them shut and let them do the compost pile in a bag thing and spread in the spring!!!!!!
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Cut down the early girl tomato plant a bit ago...picked 24 green ones, now wrapped in newspaper and put in a box downstairs to ripen slowly. Total early girls off one plant: 75! And every single one was blemish free....darned good year, for getting such a late start. ;D
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ONLY think left in my garden now is kalarabi and my wifes flowers in the flower bed i let her have!!!!!!!
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I still have tomatoes out.....supposed to freeze this coming weekend. Also kohlrabis, lettuce and beets. I won't dig potatoes for a couple weeks yet. They keep best in the ground.
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Unless it's a hard freeze your kalarabi should Bo ok I would think. Last I heard it was supposed to be a frost
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I got some cukes to pick, still have more peppers left, and zucchini......but, I think it's time to pull the plug. Freezer, and the pantry are full enough for the year supply.
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well the frost took care of my wifes hanging plants. got mayb5 6 kalarabi left in the garden. planted my garlic on sunday!!!!!!!!!
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Cut down the early girl tomato plant a bit ago...picked 24 green ones, now wrapped in newspaper and put in a box downstairs to ripen slowly. Total early girls off one plant: 75! And every single one was blemish free....darned good year, for getting such a late start. ;D
Checked on some of the green ones today that I wrapped and put away.....half are nice and ripe! Tastes like they just came off the vine; no discernible difference in on-the-plant ripening. And to think years ago I didn't think you could do this, and threw the green ones away in the Fall. :doah:
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Breaded fried green tomatoes are great!! Ever try em?
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i have some cherry maters left as well as like 6 other maters................wont last till the weekend!!!!!!!!!! burp!!!!!!!
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Breaded fried green tomatoes are great!! Ever try em?
Yes, I did make some once. Just dipped 'em in flour and some seasoning, and into an oiled pan. Don't know if I did it right, but they were just OK. It was probably my method.
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holy goulash.................did my maple tree shed the leaves yesterday!!!!!!!!!!! :doah: :doah:
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You have a maple tree in yer garden?! :scratch:
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the leaves blew into the garden..................makes it a garden topic!!!!!!!!!!! :moon: :moon: :moon:
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Breaded fried green tomatoes are great!! Ever try em?
I did a couple of times this year, did em on the grill in cast iron, really good. I'll be doing them again.
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Usually I pickle all my late season green tomatoes....this year I had none that didn't ripen in time. :doah:
Fried green tomatoes are ok, but if I have even more than I want to pickle...I deep fry um.
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so this is why glenn likes gardening...
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Well gents the garden is done and the taters are dug. I cut it down to 3 rows this year instead of 5 and planted half Yukon and half red. Got a bunch of the same monsters as always.
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Datz a lotta spuds!!
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This has been a great fall to garden. I am still eating Romaine lettuce, beets, kohlrabi, daikons, and broccoli.Looks like another warm week ahead. This has to be the longest gardening season I've seen here in 35 yrs. Love it. :happy1: :happy1: :happy1: