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Year of the Patriot: Gardens
Eric Krewson:
I am taking my garden down to get it ready to plant my winter greens, everything but the okra has dried up anyway.
I have a friend who said he could get me a load of cotton gin waste, I haven't heard from him in a while but hopefully I can get a load to work into my soil before planting time.
I posted this picture on Facebook, few of my gardening friends knew they existed. I use a lot of T posts in my garden for trellises, from spring to fall they seem to concrete themselves into the ground. In the past I would manhandle them out often throwing my back out in the process.
I finally wised up and bought a T post puller from Tractor Supply. It cost $40 but is built like a tank and will snatch any T post out of the ground easily no matter how deep or long it has been in the ground. I puled some posts that had been in the ground for at least 30 years with it, they came right out.
gifford:
Eric - thanks for the tip, I've been using my old handy-man jack aka fence post jack for, wow, 50 years and it still works but the one from Tractor Supply looks a lot better.
Marc St Louis:
Harvested the last of my pointed cabbage today along with one of the larger of the rutabaga, the cabbage is about 8" in D.
I maybe planted a bit too many rutabaga this year. They are good keepers lasting several months in cold storage and I love them but I'll probably get well over a dozen of them and all of them more than 4' across
And I picked some beets and carrots for lunch, they were excellent
Eric Krewson:
Winter garden planted, I put out a patch of exotic multicolored kale, purple top turnips with some daikon radishes mixed in, collards, several patches of Siberian kale and one patch of strictly Daikon radishes. Here they are called deer radishes because the deer love them, I plant them for myself to eat.
I always hand sow seeds too thick so I made a seed shaker this year, it appears to work well.
While I was in a planting mood I planted my yearly deer food plot down in the woods below my house as well. I put up an electric fence to keep the deer out until the plants have time to get up and going. Without the fence the der will nip off the plants as soon as they come out of the ground and turn the plot into bare ground.
YosemiteBen:
I am jealous of those of you that can put a garden in the ground!
We have gophers so bad at my place that everything has wire under it, around the side and over the top.
What the gophers don't get the deer, turkeys and packrats do.
I have built around 20 3'X6'X18" boxes for my wife's garden.
Then I have all of the mouse and rat traps....
Our most productive plant this summer was spaghetti squash.
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