Here is my first zucchini, it was quite delicious.
And some strawberries from my garden.
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Harvesting Time - What are you growing?
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Here is my first zucchini, it was quite delicious.
And some strawberries from my garden.
Thought I would bump this even though I posted in the other thread, just cause we've had this one for a few years. Here is a photo of the gang checking out a row tractor they are thinking of purchasing. This is a direct reference to Tituscrow's thread on Friends.
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Awesome garden!! I do the sheet mulch too. I have to carry my fig tree in each year(Michigan) but the fresh figs are good...maybe 10-12 last year.
In case you didn't know, potatoes have to be hilled up,twice or more optimally. The potatoes aren't the roots, botanically they are storage leaves - leaves that switch to that form when in an environment of dark,wet soil or mulch. The roots are below the taters. If you only hill up say two leaf points along the stem, you only get taters from those two points. Hilling up 4 points give you twice as much growth. If you keeping hilling the plant will make a lot of smalls and few bigs. Length of your season is also a factor, short season folks don't hills as high since those later potatoes will never get a chance to develop.
Strawberries, peppers and tomatoes just went in the ground, along with a variety of herbs at my house.
And of course, winegrapes at work!
And of course, winegrapes at work!
Our garden 'staff' has been contemplating another tractor purchase, a 1951 Allis-Chalmers row tractor. Here it is. Problem is, it needs some work. Cool thing is it has adjustable rear wheels so you can adjust the width of the rows. Personally I think all they want is another toy to ride around on.
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Whaddyamean? This ain't my rodeo partner, I'm just the bass player.
I think they should hold onto the money for that tractor; sure the price is right, but it needs at least as much for repairs and add on tools to make it functional. They be trying to get everyone to 'donate' another $100 each to make it happen, and that's with taking about $1500 out of the garden account. Nope, not my way of thinkin'.
I totally understand that - I have/had a sweet New Holland tractor. But I beat the snot out of it working my land, working other properties and loading over 500 motorcycles at last count. Transmission case has a crack(patched), hydraulic pump sprung a major gasket leak in February. I was so sick after one snowstorm I willing blew through $40 worth of hydraulic fluid just to get my driveway loop clear for business. 2 gallons of fluid spewed out in about 25-30 minutes. I then went in and thought about dying as I shivered in bed.Whaddyamean? This ain't my rodeo partner, I'm just the bass player.
I think they should hold onto the money for that tractor; sure the price is right, but it needs at least as much for repairs and add on tools to make it functional. They be trying to get everyone to 'donate' another $100 each to make it happen, and that's with taking about $1500 out of the garden account. Nope, not my way of thinkin'.
But now it's warm - I'm thinking about trying to patch her up - has been a darn good tractor. Just put new meats(tires) on it about a year ago, hours are actually fairly low(500-ish). I have all the tools for it a man could want - disc, box blade, back blade, harrow mat, plow, roller. But maybe the hulk will have to go - I'll have to see how bad it is. And I put on many new hoses last year after a major blowout that left me "Jerri Curled" in hydraulic fluid. Line blows and sprays me - why do I have to pull the bucket control and get sprayed again? Right in the face.
Received most of my seeds today - hooray, no TB for me tomorrow, I'm going to be mixing soil, filling trays and making sure the heating mats are all in order. Bring on the summer!!!!
Sweet machine. They really don't make them like that any more. I always liked the A.C.'s with the single front wheel. Crazy enough to work.
Blossoms - d-am you....those are beautiful
Won't see that for at least 4-5 weeks here.
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I think we're about a month away from receiving our summer crop starts from the greenhouse. Plenty to do in the meantime with the fruit trees and vines (trying kiwis this year) and winter/spring stuff though. I have a bunch of greenhouse panels I need to frame out this weekend too. We've collected a lot of heirloom seeds and I'd love to do more of my peppers that way this year, with straw bales and greenhouse panel hot boxes.
We used to have artichokes and my wife is trying to re-establish them. Crossing my fingers on apples and pears, as buds are on and a hard freeze is always very possible for a while yet. We got completely shut out on those last year. Fig crop was low last year too, but that always seems pretty unpredictable.
Blossoms - d-am you....those are beautiful
Well you appear to be a 'real' farmer/gardener/user-of-equipment -to-make-a-living. We're just a bunch yahoos/weekend gardentards that enjoy hanging out together, whose first excuse to get out of the house (read: away from wife/kids) and drink beer, was to start a 'garden', which subsequently has now somehow acquired a life of it's own. The membership is out of control, in number and behaviour, and while our main crops are tomatoes and green chile, everything else is hotly (and drunkenly) debated. It's a lot of fun, if a bit unorganized and subject to erratic tangents here and there.
Yes, many things are blossoming, but there are issues with that living in the high desert. It gets warm early, especially the last 10 or 12 years now
, but still freezes sometimes up until about 2nd or 3rd week of April, which has happened consistently the last 3 or 4 years, killing a lot of fruit and flowerbuds.
