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2020 Victory Gardens
bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Hawkdancer on October 27, 2020, 11:33:39 pm ---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
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Sorry to let you down. No time for hunting yet. We still have at least four days of beets. Probably six.
Then it’s time to go back at corn and tillage. I’m pretty sure it will be gun season before I can get back out. Of course I do have my bow along in the very unlikely chance I might get a stalk. Very unlikely but I do like the way it spruces up my tractor cab.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
This is my beet digger with cart along side. The digger lifts the beets and dirt out of the ground with “digger wheels “. Then they go over a series of cleaning chains and rolls to remove dirt and some stones. Then they go in the “Ferris Wheel” to get them elevated to a conveyor chain that I can either run towards cart or a small bin on digger. I basically have to have a cart alongside of me at all times in 37 ton beets. I can’t go very far putting them in my bin. Just long enough to quick change a full cart for a empty one.
Bjrogg
PS it gets to be exhausting
Eric Krewson:
My greens are looking really good, I have opened the patch to picking but none of the folk that said they would come over to pick have.
I took the electric fence down on my deer plot, last year there were deer in it within in a few hours after the fence came down, this year after a week there have been no deer in it feeding at all, not the first picture on my trail cam. They legalized hunting over feeders where I live and I suspect they are in a lot of backyards around here and drawing the deer off.
I blow the leaves off the plot every few days as it sits in the woods.
Pat B:
The reason I asked is we bought our 25acs in 1988 with sugar money but cane sugar, not beats. We sold our Dixie Chrystal Sugar stock(Savannah Foods and Industries, I inherited) and bought our 25acs. A good friend was also a sugar buyer for SF and I. And growing up in Savannah, S F and I was a big deal. I didn't realize until later the animosity between cane and beet sugar. (A)
BJ, I have to give you and all farmers lots of credit for all your hard work you do with such little returns. Definitely the backbone of our country.
We have only had spotty frost around here so far this year. None at my place. There have been a few years where we had frost in Sept, usually by now we've had a heavy frost and hard freeze. To me this is our most obvious transition between seasons and my favorite. I always look forward to the first frost.
bjrogg:
We’re just friendly competition Pat. I hold no animosity towards them. It’s not their fault they can’t grow sugar beets.lol
Thanks for the kind words about farmers. I can almost hear the filfes playing like when Oliver Windel Douglas would give his American Farmer speech on “Green Acres”.
Really I do appreciate the kind words. There are a lot of hard working people out there though. I feel so blessed to be doing what I am. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Even a couple hours of sleep.
Bjrogg
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