Laid the rows in off in the big garden. Wife planted 19 tomatoes and 10 watermelon in the smaller patch.
Whos into home grown
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No wood. All aluminum and glass. Only issue is the odd bird flying in through the automatic windows and not knowing how to exit.
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?
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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.
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)
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)
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.
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Looks great!
Just so you know, tucking pants into the boots like the person (pinkish/purple shirt) in picture is a great way to end up with a sting on bottom of foot when pull foot out of boot…I learned the hard way the first time I opened a hive.
Good to know, normally I tie a shoe lace around my ankles, we both will be doing that next time.
Hers a fun fact…my spousal unit is allergic to bees. She wanted bees and I thought it was horrible idea (she keeps an EpiPen with her) I said absolutely not unless get the immunotherapy…that took several years until the doc gave her the all clear. We got the bees…had them for several years and I am the only one that gets stung.
First time with our first hive I carried one back into the house inside my boot…ouch. Anytime we need to do something that involves gloves off, I am called to the mound and never fails I get stung…just part of it. At least spousal unit can safely bee around the apiary/bees.
I hope you and yours enjoy the apiary. Good luck.
First time with our first hive I carried one back into the house inside my boot…ouch. Anytime we need to do something that involves gloves off, I am called to the mound and never fails I get stung…just part of it. At least spousal unit can safely bee around the apiary/bees.
I hope you and yours enjoy the apiary. Good luck.
Looks like it’s just you and me @GrumpyFarmer . I guess @Fordtech86 is still playing with toy trucks!
Sure seems to be the case…if RC trucks had a rear pto and could run a front loader and a tiller, I might be joining the FordTech.
we are still a bit behind you up here. We got into the 80s today which is a bit unusual but it should cool back off in a day or so. We have some seedlings started in our basement and some transplants from a week or so ago out in the greenhouse. We had a frost last week which is not uncommon for us and I really don’t like covering stuff up, so I follow the moon phases (it’s almost time to get serious) We’ve planted some greens in one garden and that is about it. If weather allows we may get a couple other patches planted this weekend (maybe try to get the beans in). Hope to blow the dust off the garden bedder and plant the next time we visit our place up north as well…all weather depending.
Some of the big boys / early birds rushed it this past week and you can pick their seed up with a front loader in the ditch today.
we still have another month or so until we pull garlic. I’ve forgotten what a fresh tomato tastes like.