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M2A:
Looks like you got some nice mellons coming along BJ. Also great looking arrow you sent out for the trade.
Best wishes on your bean harvest.
I had the crew long enough this week to get some golds picked for longer term storage, 30 bins. They are a bit green now but will ripen up slowly over time in the cooler. I hope they will be ready for retail sale come December.
IMG_5101 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
Only grow a few acres of pumpkins now a days but they are about 2 weeks off yet. Some powdery mildew in them but it looks like an average crop.
IMG_5100 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
Not really farm related but after a long time of not bow hunting I'm finally going to get back to it this year i hope. So was putting a new ladder stand together in the tractor shed the other evening. Then I heard the buzz overhead. Seems one of the local hives thought they needed to find a better home. Odd time of the year for a swarm and not the best timing for me lol. They would have left me alone but after a bit I figured I better just go home lol. They were there the next morning still but had left by mid afternoon. One of these days I'm going to collect a few swarms and start a few of my own hives but too many other projects atm and this small swarm was a bit too high to get at easy. Most folks dont have these kind of issues at the office haha.
IMG_5105 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
IMG_5104 by Mike Allridge, on Flickr
bjrogg:
Thanks for sharing Mike.
Those apples look really nice. We don’t have much for apples this year. The ones we do have are very small.
I see quite a few pumpkins on wagons for sale around the area now.
My muskmelons are getting to the end. They were a little small but very tasty. I probably should have watered them earlier but we don’t have enough water in our well for the house let alone the garden.
We e have plenty for ourselves and enough to share with a few close friends.
My watermelons aren’t quite ready yet. My wife and I love eating watermelon standing over the kitchen sink. Em I can’t wait.
Scott you are correct about the being a pain cleaning out the combines when switching bean colors. My son and I probably spent at least a hour cleaning out the navy beans. My nephew spent another half hour cleaning his. We still had a few white beans in the sample and they probably cost us a couple grand. I’m about to give up on Navy’s. The market is shrinking and right now the price is $4 a cwt less than Blacks. They are much riskier to grow and don’t yield any better. In the past they were a premium, but now at a discount it’s not a very good economic decision.
We did finish our beans yesterday and got all the beans my son had ready. One thing nice about no rain is we can sure get a lot of work done.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
In the last field
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Our yields have been higher but our quality is excellent.
Here’s a tease of that beautiful bean footage.
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
And then we worked at my grandsons field. He helped me out and things got interesting. Love having him ride along and we took a selfie
Bjrogg
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