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Year of the Patriot: Gardens

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Eric Krewson:
My little deer plot down in the woods is looking better than it ever did, we had about 10 inches of rain in the week after my planting it. I cut one sweetgum that had grown enough in the past few years to shade the up hill part of the plot.

bjrogg:
We dug these early beets last Sunday and Monday.  We piled them on the edges of our field.

They will go directly to the factories to be processed and made into sugar.

The machine that loads them is called a Maus. It is supposed to clean more dirt out of the beets and load them on the trucks on the road. These beets were really clean when we harvested them. We’ve done lots of modifications to our lifter and it really cleans the beets good and still has pretty darn good capacity. In the muddy conditions the Maus is loading these in I’m guessing they are getting a little dirtier. Sure glad I didn’t have to dig them in these conditions.

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
Well we still didn’t cut open the biggest watermelon. We have a 4-H group that hold there meetings in my man cave Sunday. I think we are going to have a little fun with those kids and the big melon.

Decided to pick one of the smaller ones about the same age and cut it open. Rhine was a little thick yet, but the flavor a texture was really good. We pretty much devoured the small melon on the spot.

Bjrogg

bjrogg:
Have had five really good watermelons so far. Most were devoured on the spot. Last night was actually the first one that we had cooled down in the fridge. Man those are so good. The weather has been staying on the warm side here, but raining to. Still been busy, but harder to get things done.

We did get our winter wheat planted and it’s up nice. We are pretty fortunate as many still don’t have their edible beans off and very few soybeans harvested yet. We don’t have many acres of them, but we don’t have any soybeans harvested either. Definitely getting to be time to be done planting wheat and lots haven’t even started. Glad our wheat is planted and up.

Bjrogg

Here’s a selfie from the tractor. Planting wheat

bjrogg:
The English walnuts are about finished dropping. I managed to get a few picked up before the critters got them.

Here’s a few. Man I really like English Walnuts. They are worth the work. Wish the critters weren’t so good at getting them.

Bjrogg

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