Garden and Yard Talk

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

2cent wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

2cent wrote:The Daddy Longlegs get to live.  They're put outside.  Any other spider in the house gets swatted.  Most are Brown Recluses.  

I've had several spider bites from those things over the years.  It's not pleasant.
Black widows love this heat. I killed one yesterday.

One time on the job in the refinery, they told us to pack some material in sealed , 55-gallon drums. We opened up the drums and they were full of black widows of every size.

Do what???!!!     Were they alive?  Dead?  What was the purpose?

They were alive and well with babies and webs. How they got in there or what country of origin the barrels were from,  I have no idea. Nor do I know what they eating or were living off of .

I got an acetylene torch and fried them , one barrel at a time. Lol. 10 barrels total.

The General Foreman came out there and asked my foreman what the hell I was doing . Lol.

Then he came over there to watch and wrote down some notes.

Likely to take note on how to be rid of them. lol But Thaz juz crazy.

Are we still doing gardens here?

Mr. 2 brought home a good portion of our garden today. Crazy guy: 'A couple hand full of red inions.' Gonna have a boatload 'n a half, if we plant 'em all.

Two packets of Silver Queen corn. Enough for 3 short rows. About 8' or 9' feet long, each. 16 taters; 4 rows of 7 each.

Care to come over and help 'till 'n dig? We'd love ya LOTS for it! But, more importantly, share our beer. Lots o' beer!

I put lots of wicking buckets out the front yard to see if I could grow there.
In theory I could not see why not.

In practise, I can't grow out there in summer

The 28 degree freeze made everything shit!

We didn't get a single freeze in Jan or Feb!  It was record heat too, with record highs being broken for many consecutive days in a row.

Hence, summer annual got a head start in the lawns. Many trees including pecan trees had sprouted and made tassels.

I took a tractor ride around this morning. Just about everything that sprouted got killed. After a few days, the lawns are brown. Every species of tree was damaged to some degree. Young plant, pecan trees lost all their leaves. I imagine they will resprout later.

But producing pecan trees are a biennial crop making every 2 years. Most native trees have not sprouted yet. Improved varieties like Elliots are very early to sprout and mature. They command a price premium and if you've ever eaten any, you know why.

Elliot didn't make anything last year , here. Nor in most places in the region. So, I was looking forward to at least a few this year.

But an Elliot crop was not meant to be. On my tractor travels this morning, I observered nothing but dead, black material. The trees had sprouted and had little tassles about an inch long. All that tender stuff froze at 28.

There will be a few, or maybe more, native pecans.

I need an EBT card so I can buy ribeyes, filet mignon,  and swimps!

It's amazing my tomatoes and potatoes didn't freeze. I expected at least some damage. When you have that, you just as well pull them and start over. I covered the maters with plastic buckets and then threw old blankets on top of the buckets.

I made a blanket tent for three tubs of potatoes. None were damaged.

Do you mound dirt around them taters and then keep mounding it as they grow??  I do that.

Calypso Jones wrote:Do you mound dirt around them taters and then keep mounding it as they grow??  I do that.

Well no. Lol.if I had planted them in the field in rows, I would do this.

Hip rows

Make a furrow in the middle with a lister or middlebuster using just the point.

Apply fertilizer in the furrow and drag a large chain in the furrow behind that at the same time to mix the fertizer into the soil so the seed pieces don't sit directly on the fertilizer and rot.

Plant the seed pieces.

When about 6 or 8 inches tall, before they grow too much, off bar the row a little on each side with the rowing disks by turning them backwards and adjusting to the proper angle and depth.

Apply additional fertilizer in the furrows.

Turn the disks around and bring the row back hard, covering fertilizer and throwing additional dirt on the top of the row next to the plants.

Spray for pest accordingly. No more row manipulation until digging time.


But these are just in a tub like last year. Lol.
I might add a little potting soil.

You know a lot about growing potatoes.
I'm regularly confounded when growing things.  Am improving.

Planted some tomatoes today, trying a few variations on my wicking buckets.
They DID work excellently well, then I changed the polystyrene buckets for plastic ones. The plastic ones are more portable and tough. Not so good in the sun. Trying a cardboard surround around the plastic.

Hogweed, in new york state.    It can really hurt you and this article says alter your DNA too.

 

https://nypost.com/2024/08/04/us-news/giant-hogweed-can-cause-third-degree-burns-and-its-all-over-new-york/

Id been battling garlic week thing...keeping it off my property.  Other property owners around here don't seem to know what it is.  They hve it all over their property