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Topic: 2018 gardens
Posted By: ac fleet
Subject: 2018 gardens
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2018 at 5:25pm
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Anybody do gardens any more?? Got pix?? the taters a couple weeks ago  |
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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2018 at 6:23pm
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Your idea of a little garden is a bit different than mine. But looks real good.
My garden is 2 water troughs,one oval 3x6 with the wifes lemon cukes,an 6 foot round with one tomato,zuk,bell pepper,pumpkin,and a hot pepper.
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Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2018 at 9:25pm
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Even a pot is considered a garden! My potato rows are 190 feet long and 6 of them to go. sweet tatoes ----5 rows 190 feet long   RR sweet corn 14 rows 190 feet long. thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2018 at 11:04pm
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AC, that garden looks terrific! Tracy ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2018 at 1:13am
| you wants sum coons to help you harvest that sweet corn? |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2018 at 8:58am
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I'll see if I can get some pics today. Managed to get through it yesterday with the hoe and tiller trying to get caught up on the weeds before the rain. Not as big as yours, I think about 50' X 110'. |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2018 at 9:33am
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Well,,,,we ain't had any rain so my rock garden is doin better than the weeds,,,,,,
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Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2018 at 9:45am
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Joe, the only good thing about that is you don't have to can the rocks come fall. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2018 at 9:00am
Got some pics yesterday, 7-1. Three inches of rain and a lot of wind the night before worked things over pretty good, especially the middle planting of corn. Potatoes look great this year. I just planted last years left overs. On a low-carb diet so not sure what I'll do all of them.    |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2018 at 10:22am
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Dang,,,,I ain't seen that much GREEN in ,,,,,,in,,,,,,chit ,,I'll have to get back to Ya'll later on thet one,,,,, chit I ain't got but 10 toes and fingers,,,,,, But,,,but,,,we don't got to tend to no dang tornados either,,,,  I DO remember I upset ole Shameless bout something and we wount up with bout 3 FEET of SNOW,,,whew,,,,don't want no more of that chit,,,,
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2018 at 10:01pm
| that second pic looks like the pioneer corn that they grow around here! and Joe...I always like it when someone learns their lesson! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2018 at 10:02pm
| Chaz...me wonders how ole Joe chews them rocks? and does he hafta salt them? |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2018 at 11:46pm
| i do about a 1/4 acre also plant a lot of flowers in there also |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 1:26pm
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My sweetcorn has stood back up for the most part. It's NOT Pioneer! |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 1:59pm
| We had hail and 70MPH winds last week some of my garden is starting to stand backup. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 2:13pm
| I got 6 - 5 gallon bucket with the bottom cut out and sweet potato plant in each one, that gives us enough sweet potatoes for the year and a whole lot easier to dig. Planted acorn, spagetti and Winter squash along with sweet corn. I have a whole lot more flower gardens. |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 4:38pm
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I usually end up with a few flowers in the mix! Bout done with the pea harvest, got a bunch this year. Greenbeans made over 50 pounds from the 2 short rows and first picking. In the next few I will harvest more of the early onions, and dig the early spuds. Sweet corn is setting ears really good , so we see how things go with that. ( Shameless,--I probably won't be needing your coons due to the fact that I got COYOTES!!! LOL!!!)--Did get the new woven wire fence up last week.--have the gates to install yet. Tomatoes are doing so--so, and look fair.--some green ones forming so time will tell. Summer squash are going big time, so have been getting my fill while they are tender and giving lots away. One year we used 10 earth boxes for a garden and had a lot of produce from them.--containers to work well!!---- watering is the hardest part and the most critical! thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 4:43pm
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The RR corn today.    The early red Norlands;    Did get 200 pounds from the 10 pounds of seed potatoes that we planted. The bugs destroyed the full season ones, but may still get a few from them.--will see later if they worth diggin or not. thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: BrianC
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 8:19pm
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I have 16 rows of sweet corn. First corn should be July 25. I planted may 4. We have the ear worm problem here (Long Island), I spray with Bug-B-Gon or Sevin every 3-4 days. I wonder if that BT spray would work effectively instead. I used the Providence variety. Some say it is the best they ever tasted. That is subjective, but it is very good. I notice I can pick over a batch of it with about a 4 days window span. I give it away. People are starting to ask when is the corn going to be ready? I plow and disk with the the A/C 160, plant with a hand push Jr, cultivate with the C. Long Island has cold springs, with all the water around. If I plant in April, it usually turns cold and wet. Sometimes a batch planted 2 weeks later will catch up. Conversely, summer is stretched out. Question -has anyone found an early variety that tastes good, is worth planting? And really delivers on "early"? Is it early because it matures faster, but also can it take the cold? Also some pumpkins, water melons cantaloupe and sun flowers. 5/8 acre of blueberry. I almost OD'd on Blueberry this weekend! |
Posted By: EricPA
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 8:20pm
RR sweet corn, Round up ready? didn't know it was available ------------- Life is tough,but it's tougher when you're stupid. - John Wayne |
ac fleet wrote:Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 8:24pm
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My first planting of Mississippi Pink Eye Purple Hull Peas is history. Sold all the pea crop from this first patch green shelled and washed for $5 a Quart. 20 ounces makes a quart. Made over $2500. Talk about a cash crop . Lots of work for just 16 200 long rows. Wife and I split the pot for her part with the harvesting and selling Will start picking the next patch of 12 rows the end of this week. 2 more plantings after that. Room for a late planting where the first 16 rows are shredded and plowed under.
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Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 8:25pm
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OK, I'll bite.. what's RailRoad Corn taste like ? Wife planted corn ONCE, dang coons came in , nibbled on every ear night before harvest, boy was she 'upset'.... Don't plant spuds either, too many tater bugs, which then hop over to HER tomatoes, she didn't like them either !!! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 8:33pm
| had fresh string beans outta my BIL's garden (wonder if he knows they's missing yet?) they was really good with the chicky off my new grill! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 8:34pm
| hard to tell what the neighbors has in their gardens yets, he has his big ole boat parked in front of it! PffffT! |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 10:23pm
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RR is round-up ready!! LOL!!!! I been planting it for 3 years now and it's really good corn. This is Wiffels Hybrid , the yellow is 82 day and the bi is 75 day thanks; ac fleet |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2018 at 10:40pm
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ac fleet, I am envious of your garden. That's the way they should look like and produce. My hat is off to you! Tracy ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2018 at 5:25am
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How do you keep the weeds outta the potatoes? Mostly grass invaded mine this year and took over in the rows. i used some pre emergent on the sweet taders and it worked pretty well. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2018 at 9:47am
 My full garden - Asiatic Lilies in bloom
------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2018 at 11:31am
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OK I will have to take some pictures. Last ones I posted the ground was just turned over and we were trying to work in into shape to get some seeds and plants in the ground. Update coming by tonight. Our weather usually keeps us from planting till about Memorial day. We were a few days after that when we planted. FYI plowed our little spot with the same 3 bottom AC plow I had used on the farm 50 years ago. This is a small garden about 30 x 60 feet (30 foot rows) zucchini, yellow squash, pickles, tomatoes, sun flowers, sweet corn beans and peppers.    Seven rows of great lake Hybrids sweet corn. The crows got at it or it would be a little thicker.  Couple rows of green beans too. A planted every thing with fertilizer and then put on some nitrogen a week ago.  So far I am pretty happy with it. Cheryl picked up a lot of rocks too. This spot in the yard is much better for drainage.
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Posted By: macec3(TX)
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2018 at 7:51pm
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Been too dry here. This year my garden didn't do to much. Maybe next year or might try a fall garden this year. |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2018 at 10:24pm
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If only grass,--hit it with Poast. For pre-emerg., I have been using Lachlor based stuff.---Same stuff that used to be Dual.---Works good if you are careful with the rate and get it worked in, then if possible water it in good before you plant. Cultivate just enough to keep crust broke, and shallow depth. The spuds get planted in the flat ground, then as the plants grow start pushing dirt up with the wing on the troy built horse tiller. After a few days take a hard rake and pull the dirt up again. This keeps the weeds uprooted. thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2018 at 3:22pm
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sweet corn is bout over,--taters are being dug early due to bugs killed the plants.--had tons of peas and summer squash. still getting the last of the white round squash. Lots of good corn out there yet if anyone wants to come get it!!! LOL!!!     Top pic. is one of the many loads of corn, next is an ear of the yellow and third pic. is the bi-color. Last pic. is a couple trays ready for the freeze dryer. We have done corn, tomatoes, yellow summer squash, and sweet onions so far in the freeze dryer. We also have done the same in the big dehydrator to compare the difference in the end product. Freeze dry is a whole different world than de-hydrating. More later! thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2018 at 5:43pm
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I guess I missed this post several times. My garden has been green beans mostly just because my brother and I are keeping Dad's heirloom tender pod stringless green beans going since he can't anymore. Last year I planted some seeds I saved from volunteer sunflowers and have way more this year. I also planted some "Indian corn" the last 2 years but I thinks it's getting pollinated by local field corn. I don't do sweet corn, because my good neighbor always plants way more than he uses. This year I only froze a few ears on the cob for later, cause I have plenty left from last year of the bagged up kernels. Brother and I planted some of Dad's beans in his old garden this year. They were planted pretty late and we just took the first picking off last week. All together, there were 11 gallons picked off these 5 30' rows. I canned 4 batches in the pressure cooker the other day and have some left over to take to our Tucker reunion this coming Sunday. Dad's old garden patch  My patch here in the sand. I picked about 15 gallons of the first 4 rows so far and gave most to family and neighbors. I think I'm about done picking them this year, till the plants die. Then I'll have some hand threshing to do for next years seed.  I have a couple tomato plants up by the house and tried my luck with some late planted broccoli and carrots. Have to wait and see about them. I also planted a row of cucumbers this spring. I don't eat em, so I made a batch of ill pickles from some, and what the wife don't eat, I keep taking to the neighbors. They're probably getting tired of em by now
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Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2018 at 9:00pm
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Lookin really good there sir!!!!----I have an old red soup bean that was in a family since 1840, and Virginia was given some of the seed by a friend that was afraid the variety would vanish, as only two other members of his family planted this year for the last time so it's up to us to attempt to keep the old bean going!--- It's a very mild soup bean that holds together good when cooking, makes good chili and baked bean dishes too! Keep the pix. coming guys!!! LOL!!!! thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2018 at 2:42am
| my tater plants is dying, was told the taters will still keep growing after the greenery on top dies....is that true? |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2018 at 2:15pm
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When the plants dry down then taters are dunnnn!!! Time to dig and see what you got under there! We found some nice ones, but most are mid to small with a lot of micros that didn't have a chance to mature. ------NOT a super garden year this time!! LOL!!! thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2018 at 2:57pm
| thanks...i'll dig sum up! we did drive 36 miles to a farmers market last Thursday, was only 2 vedors there, but they had about everything. did buy one of the largest watermelons we've seen for years! along with new taters, string beans, onions, muskmelons, cucumbers, and a few maters. I finished up cutting up the onions last night, bagging them and shrink wrapping them for cooking up on the grill later! also made up a cucumber salad last night too, it's cooling in the fridge. |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2018 at 3:28pm
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I have two gardens, one up by the house for green beans, corn and tomato's. The lower one my mother would call a truck patch, melons and pumpkins. I planted all my sweet corn on the same day, 8 rows of white and 4 rows of early Ambrosia. Ambrosia turned out fine but the drought hit the white corn when it was tasseling and so I got maybe 6 ears off it. The lower garden stays wet so the drought doesn't bother it as bad but in a wet year only fit for rice. I have a bumper crop of cantaloupe, butternut squash, and watermelon. I was in grade school before I ever actually had pumpkin pie, my mother and grandmother always made it out of butternut squash. After trying it myself I understood why and only do squash myself, nobody knows the difference. ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2018 at 10:10pm
| soooooo….why? |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2018 at 7:14am
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JW, Ever tried Cushaw squash for pumpkin pie? That is my pick of the litter. though the butter nut and sweet taders are yummy also. oh and thanks for the kick back on the grass deal ac. |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2018 at 8:51am
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With butternut squash, only the bottom section has seeds and the cavity is small, the whole top 2/3's is solid. The outter hide is really tough, peel it off, cut the inside up in sections, boil it down and mash it up and it is pie ready, no need to run it through a seive like a pumpkin. Had an old timer give me 6 seeds for what we called crooked neck squash, they were white with green stripes and would weigh in excess of 30lbs. I planted 3 seeds in the truck patch one year and it flooded them out, planted the last three this year but didn't germinate. I think the cushaw are kind of orange aren't they? ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2018 at 9:01am
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cushaw are light green in color and have darker stripes running lengthwise. Neck is usually crooked. On the butternut we usually just half them, put the cut side down in a thin layer of water and do in the oven at 350 until soft. then scrape the inside3s out with a spoon. Seeded first of course. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2018 at 2:37pm
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Take butternut cut in half seed it a cook in microwave, clean the inside out and treat it like you do sweet potatoes, butter an brown sugar. Yummmmy |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2018 at 3:32pm
Come  on Shameless read it again.He didn't want GMO's so he separated the corn and beans from the squash. Sorry everyone else. The GMO thing is real funny to me cause every plant you get that ever grew from as seed is GMO. Cause the polin has fertilize the other part and each seed has their own DNA and that's just how crops grow. All seed for the crops we most use has been improved by man,so it is a GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM. Now if you want to cuss Monsanto or Bayer I guess it is that took them over................there is some reasons I could agree. I can see some real reason to use the super GMO technology like adding the ability to draw nitrogen out of the air like legumes do today. But no money in that for the big companies. Sorry for hijacking and ranting both....................but I blame Shameless for getting me started down a rabbit whole.
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Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2018 at 3:33pm
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double posted???????? |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2018 at 8:25pm
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Cushaws come in 3 colors!--green stripe,----all white----and orange! I have had all 3 in the past but kinda like the white the best,---they do get big and are really good!--cut the neck part in 3/4" slices, fry in butter with salt and pepper on top and I usually sprinkle a dab of flour on one side,---fry until light brown then if you want topping, go with tomato past, or kets. or mayo., whatever your favorite is! thanks; ac fleet |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2018 at 9:46pm
Truck patch is doing well, picked 8 cantaloupe off 2 vines so far and have 3 or 4 more. Already ate one of the little Charlston Grey's but picked 3 watermelon tonight, I still have several more out there in the 15 to 20 pound range.  ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2018 at 9:32am
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Thanks JW I gots to go and pee now ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2018 at 8:33pm
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Looks super!!! Our watermelons are getting big, but still have a ways to go! I did get another half row of taters dug today and a lot of sweetcorn stalks run down the shredder to make good compost! ----How long will it take to cut haul and chop 1/2 acre?????? LOL!!!! thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2018 at 9:46pm
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Freeze dried maters  freeze dried onions along with dehydrated onions  freeze dried onions and dehydrated sweet corn  sweet corn stalk with 3 good ears,-- this was the norm all thru the RR corn.  More later!! thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2018 at 10:00pm
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AC,your garden is impressive to say the least! Tracy ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2018 at 11:13pm
| anyone gots any twinkie seeds? |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2018 at 6:15am
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Am I the only gardener on the forum that grows Purplehull Cowpeas. I'm about to begin picking my 5th planting. 4 more plantings to harvest before the first freeze. The last patch is growing where the first planting grew. I call it double cropping. Deer are a problem. They love Peas. Tried spraying weekly with raw eggs in water. It seems to be working on the patch just about ready to start picking. No problem selling green shelled fresh or frozen peas in 20 oz quart ziplocks for $5 a Quart. First planting retailed for $2500 smackers |
Posted By: Dennis IL
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2018 at 11:27am
 ------------- HE WHO KNEELS BEFORE GOD CAN STAND BEFORE ANY MAN |
Posted By: Dennis IL
Date Posted: 10 Aug 2018 at 11:31am
 One more of the Purple hulls. I love em! we have a darn good way to fix them over here and everybody who tries them loves them as well.
------------- HE WHO KNEELS BEFORE GOD CAN STAND BEFORE ANY MAN |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2018 at 1:55pm
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The garden season is coming to an end! Rain here that we now don't need but are getting is making a mess of things! Peanuts and sweet potatoes need dry ground at this time.--We have had over 3" of rain this past few days. Melons, squash, carrots, beets, tomatoes, peppers, and red dry beans have been mostly harvested here, still a few out there but rain may have done them in. Freeze dried some peaches, melons, and carrots, so far. Have more to a little later. The peanut row as of last week.----Looks like a lot of nuts under the plants from the test dig that I did.  How are your gardens doing?? thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2018 at 5:28pm
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speaking of sweet taders, I dug mine a few days ago. Seems there is always a rogue tader in the batch. This year's champ weighed in a 4 lbs 3 oz. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2018 at 6:42pm
| our sweet taters is still growing |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2018 at 7:32pm
AC Fleet,If there was a first place trophy for gardens you would sure win it. I am impressed with your gardening talent. Always great to hear that someone is keeping a family heirloom growing. You and the others that take the time to grow old heirlooms, my hat is off to you! God Bless, Tracy ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2018 at 10:03pm
I hope to get one mess of turnips out of my patch unless they all float away. ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2018 at 8:41am
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All the rain lately, around 10" in a week has just about ruined my garden! Tomatoes took a real beating. Try to dust plants for bugs and it washes off in a day or two. Try again next year. Carrots do look pretty good though. |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2018 at 8:10pm
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All the rain did a number on most of our gardens!---late rains are the worst!! I didn't get the late turnips planted this year, but the early ones did ok. part of the melon area.  the white grapes   white peach tree split in wind  hubbard squash  sweet tater row!  the 3 different kinds of grapes that we had a crop from this year.--1 kind didn't produce this year and is a table type grape for fresh eating. We made 70 some quarts of grape juice and a 25 quarts of peach juice plus 7 quarts of peach sauce. The watermelons went ape this year and a lot of people got their fill of them this year! More pix. later!! LOL!!!!
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Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2018 at 9:38pm
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have not got jack squat from my garden yet,,,,, peppers are just plants and buds, but nothing else. tomato, ditto. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 1:32am
| I love them red grapes. I froze sum last year, thems really good eating! |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2018 at 5:11am
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Posted By: iowallis
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2018 at 9:43am
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Only planted pumpkins this year due to dealing with my parent's estate. Planted Burpee's "Jack 'O Lantern" variety and must have been mis-labled/mis-package. Supposed to be 18-24 lbs, ideal for carving, planted so they would be ready late September/early October. Picked them last week, completely orange, only about 10 lbs and the size of a youth soccer ball.
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Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2018 at 9:42pm
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We run into mis-labled seeds a lot in the last few years! Had acorn squash this year,---but wrong color!   some of the sweet potatoes.---We started to dig them because the mice are diggin among them!! gotta watch closely so they don't destroy the potatoes!! Got more pix. for later, since site won't let me post another pic. in this post!! LOL!!! thanks; ac fleet |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2018 at 7:50pm
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finally got harvest done! this was the biggest tater, at 6.5 pounds. a LOT of the crop was from 3 to 5 pounds and are not a bit stringy.     some of the sweet potatoes and a pic. of the little chesnut tree. this year it had a gallon of nuts on it. The bag of peanuts is part of the 150 pounds that the short row produced. Started sub-soiling but got rained out, so about half the gardens didn't get done. Now trying to moldboard plow as much as I can before the ground freezes. Garden in general did good this year despite the long dry growing season. Guess my water hauling paid off! thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2018 at 8:08pm
------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2018 at 8:22pm
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My Pea (SOUTHERN) pickin is at its end for 2018. The last patch of Mississippi Purplehulls are getting stung bad by stink bugs . So bad that half of what I shell is a waste of time to sort out the junk.. Like the deer eating more than half the green pods wasn't enough. Set out 300 Chandler Strawberry plants and still Pickin Summer Squash and Cucumbers. Pepper plants are loaded with nice green bells. Way to much rain lately. Need some sun. Temps are going down into the 40s at night next week.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2018 at 12:43am
| yeah...I wishes you was closer too, I could prolly borrow some of them melons and peaches! |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2018 at 8:34am
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Well you beat me on the sweet taders. My big boy only weighed 4.3 lbs. all in all though I had a super bad year for gardening. Ex, my bell pepper plants set there all season looking bad and did not produce one pepper. Late turnips were good though, just bush hogged the patch yesterday, man did that create an aroma.
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Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2018 at 8:48am
As sheriff Martin Brody would have said "gonna need a bigger pan".  Them some monster taters. We got plenty of beans and cabbage, most of everything else didn't seem to be able to swim long enough to make it. (Just south of Duluth)
------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2018 at 1:55pm
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most of everything else didn't seem to be able to swim long enough to make it. Now that's funny,,Chask,,,,,,,
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Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2018 at 2:05pm
Well, 2018 is in the books for me. They say the happiest two days of a boat owners life are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. I think gardening is similar. The day you plant and the day in the fall that you plow! I did have a good carrot crop this year, after the last two years of one carrot each year. Don't know what I did different.  |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2018 at 1:53pm
| Yes thems some good looking carrots |
Posted By: BrianC
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2018 at 3:19pm
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I only disk in the fall, then plant cereal rye. In the spring I plow and disk. Maybe I should try plowing in the fall? |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2018 at 8:57pm
Brian, I like to fall plow then disc in the spring. Don't know that your way might be better? Just the way I've always done it. The soil does weather down nicely over the winter. |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 7:38am
Brian, my readings also indicate to plow in the fall. That supposedly messes up all the plans that grubs and the like have/ were making for the following year.  |
Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:11am
Just wish I knew the secret to get them to grow every year! |
Posted By: BrianC
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 9:14am
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I also run the rotary cutter over the corn before fall discing. I plow the cereal rye under in the spring. Sometimes because it is too wet, I have to delay the plowing, then plant the corn immediately next. Supposedly, that is not good to plant so soon after terminating the rye. I like plowing under the rye, it is mesmerizing. This year we were wet in the fall. After I planted the rye (Oct 9) we got 3" rain, standing water for 4 days in the low spots. That low spot rye didn't germinate. But mostly it is 3" tall now. Because we had a big family party Sept 30, I was encouraged to leave the corn standing later than normal. Then it got wet... Next year I will try plowing in the late summer fall, and plant the rye earlier. Maybe I will also run a field cultivator, deep, perhaps that would allow better drainage. Could run the field cultivator in early spring also, during a dry spell, before plowing. So then if it rained just before I wanted to plow, it could have dried some. The water table is high- 3ft down. Any advice to get the plot to drain better is appreciated. My 3 foot wire fence (150 ft per sid) with a hot wire low and high kept the raccoons out. Last year they got me badly with no fence. |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 9:53am
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Crazy wet fall drown most of my turnips but I got 3 good messes from the high spots. Noticed several holes where turnips should have been, now don't get me wrong, I like my neighbors but they're too lazy to walk a half a quarter to pick a vegetable even when I give it to them, now if I pick it, clean it and take it to them they'll gladly accept it all. Further inspection revealed deer tracks, if it has the same effect on them as it does cows they will fertilize the neighborhood well. ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 10:03am
| i grow about a 1/2acre of garden , about 1/4 at a time so i can summer fallow with the garden tractor thats my entertaiment part i grew the best potatoes i ever have this year and finally got a few peanuts been trying to go peanuts for four years ithink the secret to large potatoes and any kind of peanut crop is lots of potash , carrots are always a foot long my tomatos were not good this year was covering them before i started even getting tomatoes |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 7:16pm
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In our gardens here, I subsoil 36" deep,then plow 12 to 18" deep.---I do realize that not everyone has that much topsoil, so depth would have to be whatever your area would allow. I have found that deep and loose with all the organic matter you can beg and mix in will help.--then use lots of commercial fertilizer along with it. One hint:---Richer ground means faster/bigger weeds and a rash of BIG bugs!! LOL!!!--so be ready! thanks; ac fleet
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Posted By: BrianC
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2018 at 5:37pm
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I should try sub-soiling 36" deep. Yup. I would need a bigger tractor, got to get it... We have a "dedicated tractor for every implement" mandate at my place. What do you use (tractor/implement), do you really go 36" deep, or that how long the ripper(s) is? And does it really help, even with standing perched water? |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 1:16pm
| Better get a dozer with a ripper on behind as wet as it is here a wheel tractor wouldn't get far. |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2018 at 8:20pm
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Picked up a bin of 50 some hog melons yesterday. Got there for them just as they pulled in with a load of Seedless They Pulled just down the road from my house. WAY PAST TIME FOR WATERMELON. Greg gave me two fresh pulled. Cut one already. One of the sweetest I ever put in my mouth. All that's left here are some Yellow Squash and Bell Pepper. Going down in the low 40s again tonight. Lots of little stuff in raised bed polly tunnels coming up.
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Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2018 at 3:28pm
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I do actually go 36" deep with an old JD iron wheel pull type unit. ---set the lever all the way up and go!---WD-45 won't hack it!--spins out, still has power, just no traction! LOL!!!---190xtd just will pull it with a lot of slippin!---One year I had the 806 on it and it did good for a gas engine power tractor. I used to pull it with the Oliver super 99 GM in 4th gear and it would make the ground stand up tall! 190 or 200 will do great at slower speeds at that depth.---Not all ground will pull the same either, so your results will vary. I have deep black heavy soil here in the gardens. I made a 2 shank unit with dmi shanks and it is good for a couple feet. It also takes a big tractor, 730-d deere was used for a while on it , 560 no go, too light. never got to try the 190 on it yet, but am thinking it would work good. The best time to rip is when there has been a long dry spell. the drier/harder the ground is the better. You will then shatter the ground down deep and it will stay loose allowing water/freezing to penetrate way down helping to store water for next crop season. If you go in wet ground, all that's going to happen is the shank will just make slots and not brake any chunks loose.--This can help a bit in getting surface water moving down/away. I have always had better crops and less runoff by using rippers. KEN!,---the late season melons can be better than the early ones if they pick up moisture, and if the sun is good! We had a couple late ones here that were really good. thanks; ac fleet
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