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Year of the Patriot: Gardens
Eric Krewson:
They do with the stubble, the gin waste is what is left after they run the cotton through the gin, short fibers, seed hulls and any trash that comes through from the combine.
HH~:
If it rots you may compost it and get a ph on it. Prolly take a ton of water to compost it. Whomever disposes of it should know what its good for i would think Eric.
HH~
bjrogg:
Eric around here dairy farmers use to feed the cotton seeds to their cows. They stopped because of the weed seeds. The had some nasty weeds. I’m afraid that’s all the information I have about cotton waist.
It’s been a while but I got my crops planted.
Spring started early here and lots of sugar beets got planted in March. Most of those are looking really good now. I waited till 4-7-21 and planted my first two fields in what seemed to be perfect conditions. They were just pushing out of the ground when it got down to 19 degrees here and stay cold for three nights. That was very bad timing for my early beets. They can handle the cold , but they our very delicate as they are emerging from ground and still don’t have their leaves opened up. I had to many at that stage and had to replant my first two fields. I planted my second batch starting 4-17-21 and those all came up great.
It’s been dry. And either to hot or to cold this spring. Late April and early may turned cold again and I waited to plant corn. Started Planting corn 5-13-21 in very good conditions and hot. The corn emerged in a week with perfect stand and very even emergence. Then my soybeans. Then we got another light frost that dinged the corn. Fortunately it didn’t hurt the soybeans. The corn grew out of it the soybeans wouldn’t have if they had been injured.
Memorial Day I started planting Navy beans.
Still dry, but enough moisture for germination. Hot which navy seed likes. I planted them very deep as no rain in forecast to amount to anything. That was a good call and my Navy seed came up perfect. Even as deep as I planted them they were up in 6 days.
We are still dry dry. Our wheat is really hurting. The rest of our crops are small enough so far that they are hanging in there pretty good so far.
Got sweet corn planted and up in garden. Watermelon I started in containers. That stuff took forever to sprout.
A few strawberries ripe.( that’s pretty early for here) asparagus was good but could have used more rain. Rhubarb to.
Don’t have many pictures but I’ll try to post a couple.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
First picture is sugar beet plant ready to emerge. When they freeze hard at this stage just starting to emerge it’s a crap shoot. Some make it and some don’t. Unfortunately I had to many that didn’t.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Here’s field of sugar beets I planted 4-17.
They take awhile to get this size. Once they get here they grow pretty fast. They will soon be needing some rain.
Bjrogg
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