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bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Eric Krewson on October 17, 2022, 09:02:22 am ---I read about a project where a group was scouring old maps looking for abandoned farms and orchards to try to find unique apple varieties still living and neglected from over 100 years ago that had not been passed on to today. I don't know how many varieties they had found but remember they were fairly successful with their project.
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That’s the kind of orchards these rusty coats grew in. The orchards were badly neglected and the trees weren’t pruned and dead limbs still standing.
The farm I rent from my neighbor, he told me was a forty acre orchard at one time. There’s still a quite a few trees around the fence rows. There’s a yellow variety that’s really sweet and really late. I should do some pruning on it. I don’t know a lot about pruning, but I think just about anything I did to it would help it.
There’s still a few trees in the orchard by my dad’s neighbor.
Most of the trees have died though
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Been trying to sneak corn off when the weather cooperates. Which hasn’t been much lately. Rain snow mix and high winds. It’s definitely hard to smile standing out surrounded by this stuff.lol This is really beet digging weather. Refrigerator weather. Perfect temperature for piling beets. We haven’t started permanent piles yet though. Thursday is beginning of permanent piles. Then Friday it’s supposed to start warming up so we might just get started only to be shut down again. We have to pile the beets in the right conditions for storage. The last thing we want is to discard beets again.
Took a couple loads of corn to town. Getting loaded by the cart
Bjrogg
PaulN/KS:
Headed down to Lawrence today and noticed they were harvesting beans north of town. There were three combines going and the dust was flying. I also saw that there is some corn that didn't get harvested yet in the same tract.
bjrogg:
Yesterday was the beginning of the permanent pile beet harvest. The temperature is perfect for harvesting beets and storing them on our piles. Pile them to warm and they will quickly rot. Pile them when they are frozen and they will thaw on the pile and turn to mush.
It’s the perfect temperature but as often is the case that comes with drizzle and maybe a few snow flakes.
We worked at it till about 11:00 am and then the trucks just couldn’t get around anymore. The field was actually good where we hadn’t dug yet but the drizzle mixed with fresh dirt and sugar beet leaves get pretty greasy in a hurry. We sometimes have to keep going in conditions like this but it’s still early in the campaign and we decided to wait till today to try it again. Stars are shining I think it should go better today.
We did finish our corn. That means we can get the second cart ready for beets
Bjrogg
bjrogg:
Yesterday was a nice sunny day. Today is supposed to be even nicer. To nice for digging beets. The plan is for us to shut down starting at noon . Probably until Wednesday. That one of the things that makes beet harvest a real pain in the butt. We rarely get to harvest in nice weather.
We worked at helping our neighbors harvest theirs and things went pretty good. The smaller trucks could load along side the lifter.
Bjrogg
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