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2020 Victory Gardens
Russ:
it snowed (S) (S) (S) (S)
then thawed (-S (-S (-S (-S
all during sleep and at school... i lost the peppers i didnt pick and everythings dead now.... but we got all the tomatoes!!! ;D ;D ;D
Congrats BJ! sounds like a good harvest!!!
Hawkdancer:
Great to hear you got a good crop, BJ! Time to go hunting! I have just the tarragon to cut, assuming the wind and snow didn't knock all the leaves off! Then I mulch the container and broil some chicken!
Hawkdancer
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Pat B on October 27, 2020, 09:37:35 pm ---Boy, no rest for the weary. How are you processing the beets? Is it for sugar production?
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Yes Pat. Our factories are well over 100 years old. We would like to build a new one, but in this day and age it is not possible because of cost. Always seems strange to me that the old timers could build this stuff over a hundred years ago with very limited technology and equipment, but we can’t now with all our advanced technology. Sometimes Can’t isn’t really the right word.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: WhistlingBadger on October 27, 2020, 10:35:20 pm ---Yeah, Pat, they're for sugar. They grew those like crazy up in the Bighorn Basin where I grew up. Had to get them processed right quick, though, before it got cold. No piling until spring up there.
Must feel good to get the harvest in, BJ. Congratulations.
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WB my dad planted our first crop of sugar beets the day before I was born. Almost 60 years ago.
This is our 59th crop of beets. A lot of things have changed since then. A lot of things have stayed the same. It’s still a lot of work. Harvest is always a race between weather that is to warm to pile and to cold to harvest.
Cold weather for storing isn’t so bad. If it stays cold. Freezing and thawing is the worst. Min-Dak store some in huge buildings. They get cold enough that they pump in cold air and completely freeze their piles. Once they are frozen they have to keep them that way. If they thaw they turn to mush.
We get a lot of freezing and thawing here. The outside or”Rims” of our piles are a real challenge. We are always experimenting with different ideas for storage. Most are very expensive. Few work as good as advertised.
We “fly” the piles weekly with inferred cameras and record hot spots. We try to remove them first. We use to have a plane do this but now we use a drone.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Sorry to hear about your peppers Deerhunter. Our garden is done and ready for tillage.
Bjrogg
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