Whos into home grown

[MOOTS]

Laid the rows in off in the big garden. Wife planted 19 tomatoes and 10 watermelon in the smaller patch.

 

[Moose7060]

Plastic inflated "hoop houses" are the best.
If you use any type of wood frame, you are asking for short term rot.
I have had both.
My wood frame (Sitka spruce) house lasted less than 15 years, with constant attention to rot..
My 30+ year old (17x50) hoop house (galv. steel) is still standing, needing only 2nd time plastic replacement,,...30 . years later!

No wood. All aluminum and glass. Only issue is the odd bird flying in through the automatic windows and not knowing how to exit.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

Laid the rows in off in the big garden. Wife planted 19 tomatoes and 10 watermelon in the smaller patch.
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How wide are your hills?
Do you continue to hill as the plants grow?
If not what do you do with the low spot in between where your tires run?

 

[MOOTS]

How wide are your hills?
Do you continue to hill as the sun plants grow?
If not what do you do with the low spot in between where your tires run?

No idea on the width. Once the green beans and peas pop up, I will hill with the discs a few times then just run the sweeps/feet until plants are too high and the stringer wire goes up to do so. Once that happens I walk behind till the tire paths if they get weedy. Probably not the most efficient way since the MX is so wide and it’s more work to open the ends of the garden to get tractor in.

I have the big EA garden bedder with the sweeps set as wide as they go and they just about set in the center of the tire.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

Were a little behind you up here. The Big boys just now spending time in fields trying to beat the rain.

At our residence, we have transferred the first seedlings (cabbage, broccoli etc) from the basement grow lights out to the green house and we are planting the next batch for the basement (tomatoes and peppers etc).

Beyond that, today I picked up a trailer full of straw that we will plant into winter squash and cucumbers into (straw bale gardening) in addition to our traditional gardens. I’ll start the decomposition process this weekend on the new bales.

We are getting close but I have not yet hooked up the tiller or the garden bedder. We are getting close though. I hope to get some potatoes planted in May at our other place. (The worry I have is a late frost…still April and we are all budded out and fruit trees flowering…our bees are happy…but if we have a late frost that will put a damper on our peach trees)

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

We have beautiful sunny day today…low wind, sunny and 58. So we are recycling last years straw bales that we garden into, pile up (will use for mulch in garden after garden is planted) and the. Transferred the new straw bales into area where we will plant into it. After we condition the new bales (take about 2 weeks) then we will plant into the new bales.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

We could use some rain, but they have started to pop…