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IBWD MIke
Orange Level Joined: 08 Apr 2012 Location: Newton Ia. Points: 3733 |
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All the rain lately, around 10" in a week has just about ruined my garden! Tomatoes took a real beating. Try to dust plants for bugs and it washes off in a day or two. Try again next year. Carrots do look pretty good though.
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ac fleet
Orange Level Joined: 12 Jan 2014 Location: Arrowsmith, ILL Points: 2319 |
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All the rain did a number on most of our gardens!---late rains are the worst!! I didn't get the late turnips planted this year, but the early ones did ok. part of the melon area. the white grapes white peach tree split in wind hubbard squash sweet tater row! the 3 different kinds of grapes that we had a crop from this year.--1 kind didn't produce this year and is a table type grape for fresh eating. We made 70 some quarts of grape juice and a 25 quarts of peach juice plus 7 quarts of peach sauce. The watermelons went ape this year and a lot of people got their fill of them this year! More pix. later!! LOL!!!!
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Lars(wi)
Orange Level Access Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Location: Permian Basin Points: 7241 |
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have not got jack squat from my garden yet,,,,,
peppers are just plants and buds, but nothing else. tomato, ditto. |
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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shameless dude
Orange Level Joined: 10 Apr 2017 Location: east NE Points: 13607 |
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I love them red grapes. I froze sum last year, thems really good eating!
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desertjoe
Orange Level Access Joined: 23 Sep 2013 Location: New mexico Points: 13579 |
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iowallis
Silver Level Joined: 04 Jun 2017 Location: North Iowa Points: 338 |
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Only planted pumpkins this year due to dealing with my parent's estate.
Planted Burpee's "Jack 'O Lantern" variety and must have been mis-labled/mis-package. Supposed to be 18-24 lbs, ideal for carving, planted so they would be ready late September/early October. Picked them last week, completely orange, only about 10 lbs and the size of a youth soccer ball.
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ac fleet
Orange Level Joined: 12 Jan 2014 Location: Arrowsmith, ILL Points: 2319 |
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We run into mis-labled seeds a lot in the last few years! Had acorn squash this year,---but wrong color! some of the sweet potatoes.---We started to dig them because the mice are diggin among them!! gotta watch closely so they don't destroy the potatoes!! Got more pix. for later, since site won't let me post another pic. in this post!! LOL!!! thanks; ac fleet |
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ac fleet
Orange Level Joined: 12 Jan 2014 Location: Arrowsmith, ILL Points: 2319 |
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finally got harvest done! this was the biggest tater, at 6.5 pounds. a LOT of the crop was from 3 to 5 pounds and are not a bit stringy. some of the sweet potatoes and a pic. of the little chesnut tree. this year it had a gallon of nuts on it. The bag of peanuts is part of the 150 pounds that the short row produced. Started sub-soiling but got rained out, so about half the gardens didn't get done. Now trying to moldboard plow as much as I can before the ground freezes. Garden in general did good this year despite the long dry growing season. Guess my water hauling paid off! thanks; ac fleet
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Tracy Martin TN
Orange Level Access Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Gallatin,TN Points: 10629 |
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No greater gift than healthy grandkids!
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Ken in Texas
Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Henderson, TX Points: 5919 |
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My Pea (SOUTHERN) pickin is at its end for 2018. The last patch of Mississippi Purplehulls are getting stung bad by stink bugs . So bad that half of what I shell is a waste of time to sort out the junk.. Like the deer eating more than half the green pods wasn't enough.
Set out 300 Chandler Strawberry plants and still Pickin Summer Squash and Cucumbers. Pepper plants are loaded with nice green bells. Way to much rain lately. Need some sun. Temps are going down into the 40s at night next week.
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shameless dude
Orange Level Joined: 10 Apr 2017 Location: east NE Points: 13607 |
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yeah...I wishes you was closer too, I could prolly borrow some of them melons and peaches!
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Dave H
Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Central IL Points: 3493 |
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Well you beat me on the sweet taders. My big boy only weighed 4.3 lbs. all in all though I had a super bad year for gardening. Ex, my bell pepper plants set there all season looking bad and did not produce one pepper. Late turnips were good though, just bush hogged the patch yesterday, man did that create an aroma.
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chaskaduo
Orange Level Joined: 26 Nov 2016 Location: Twin Cities Points: 5200 |
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As sheriff Martin Brody would have said "gonna need a bigger pan".
Them some monster taters. We got plenty of beans and cabbage, most of everything else didn't seem to be able to swim long enough to make it. (Just south of Duluth)
Edited by chaskaduo - 14 Oct 2018 at 8:55am |
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desertjoe
Orange Level Access Joined: 23 Sep 2013 Location: New mexico Points: 13579 |
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most of everything else didn't seem to be able to swim long enough to make it. Now that's funny,,Chask,,,,,,,
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IBWD MIke
Orange Level Joined: 08 Apr 2012 Location: Newton Ia. Points: 3733 |
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Well, 2018 is in the books for me. They say the happiest two days of a boat owners life are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. I think gardening is similar. The day you plant and the day in the fall that you plow! I did have a good carrot crop this year, after the last two years of one carrot each year. Don't know what I did different.
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tadams(OH)
Orange Level Access Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Location: Jeromesville, O Points: 10125 |
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Yes thems some good looking carrots
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BrianC
Orange Level Joined: 16 Jun 2011 Location: New York Points: 1619 |
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I only disk in the fall, then plant cereal rye.
In the spring I plow and disk. Maybe I should try plowing in the fall? |
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IBWD MIke
Orange Level Joined: 08 Apr 2012 Location: Newton Ia. Points: 3733 |
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Brian, I like to fall plow then disc in the spring. Don't know that your way might be better? Just the way I've always done it. The soil does weather down nicely over the winter. |
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Dave H
Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Central IL Points: 3493 |
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Brian, my readings also indicate to plow in the fall. That supposedly messes up all the plans that grubs and the like have/ were making for the following year.
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IBWD MIke
Orange Level Joined: 08 Apr 2012 Location: Newton Ia. Points: 3733 |
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Just wish I knew the secret to get them to grow every year! |
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BrianC
Orange Level Joined: 16 Jun 2011 Location: New York Points: 1619 |
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I also run the rotary cutter over the corn before fall discing.
I plow the cereal rye under in the spring. Sometimes because it is too wet, I have to delay the plowing, then plant the corn immediately next. Supposedly, that is not good to plant so soon after terminating the rye. I like plowing under the rye, it is mesmerizing. This year we were wet in the fall. After I planted the rye (Oct 9) we got 3" rain, standing water for 4 days in the low spots. That low spot rye didn't germinate. But mostly it is 3" tall now. Because we had a big family party Sept 30, I was encouraged to leave the corn standing later than normal. Then it got wet... Next year I will try plowing in the late summer fall, and plant the rye earlier. Maybe I will also run a field cultivator, deep, perhaps that would allow better drainage. Could run the field cultivator in early spring also, during a dry spell, before plowing. So then if it rained just before I wanted to plow, it could have dried some. The water table is high- 3ft down. Any advice to get the plot to drain better is appreciated. My 3 foot wire fence (150 ft per sid) with a hot wire low and high kept the raccoons out. Last year they got me badly with no fence. |
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JW in MO
Orange Level Joined: 16 Feb 2010 Location: South KC Area Points: 2618 |
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Crazy wet fall drown most of my turnips but I got 3 good messes from the high spots. Noticed several holes where turnips should have been, now don't get me wrong, I like my neighbors but they're too lazy to walk a half a quarter to pick a vegetable even when I give it to them, now if I pick it, clean it and take it to them they'll gladly accept it all. Further inspection revealed deer tracks, if it has the same effect on them as it does cows they will fertilize the neighborhood well.
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HudCo
Orange Level Joined: 29 Jan 2013 Location: Plymouth Utah Points: 3542 |
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i grow about a 1/2acre of garden , about 1/4 at a time so i can summer fallow with the garden tractor thats my entertaiment part i grew the best potatoes i ever have this year and finally got a few peanuts been trying to go peanuts for four years ithink the secret to large potatoes and any kind of peanut crop is lots of potash , carrots are always a foot long my tomatos were not good this year was covering them before i started even getting tomatoes
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ac fleet
Orange Level Joined: 12 Jan 2014 Location: Arrowsmith, ILL Points: 2319 |
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In our gardens here, I subsoil 36" deep,then plow 12 to 18" deep.---I do realize that not everyone has that much topsoil, so depth would have to be whatever your area would allow. I have found that deep and loose with all the organic matter you can beg and mix in will help.--then use lots of commercial fertilizer along with it. One hint:---Richer ground means faster/bigger weeds and a rash of BIG bugs!! LOL!!!--so be ready! thanks; ac fleet
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BrianC
Orange Level Joined: 16 Jun 2011 Location: New York Points: 1619 |
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I should try sub-soiling 36" deep. Yup. I would need a bigger tractor, got to get it...
We have a "dedicated tractor for every implement" mandate at my place. What do you use (tractor/implement), do you really go 36" deep, or that how long the ripper(s) is? And does it really help, even with standing perched water? |
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tadams(OH)
Orange Level Access Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Location: Jeromesville, O Points: 10125 |
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Better get a dozer with a ripper on behind as wet as it is here a wheel tractor wouldn't get far.
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Ken in Texas
Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Henderson, TX Points: 5919 |
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Picked up a bin of 50 some hog melons yesterday. Got there for them just as they pulled in with a load of Seedless They Pulled just down the road from my house. WAY PAST TIME FOR WATERMELON. Greg gave me two fresh pulled. Cut one already. One of the sweetest I ever put in my mouth.
All that's left here are some Yellow Squash and Bell Pepper. Going down in the low 40s again tonight. Lots of little stuff in raised bed polly tunnels coming up.
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ac fleet
Orange Level Joined: 12 Jan 2014 Location: Arrowsmith, ILL Points: 2319 |
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I do actually go 36" deep with an old JD iron wheel pull type unit. ---set the lever all the way up and go!---WD-45 won't hack it!--spins out, still has power, just no traction! LOL!!!---190xtd just will pull it with a lot of slippin!---One year I had the 806 on it and it did good for a gas engine power tractor. I used to pull it with the Oliver super 99 GM in 4th gear and it would make the ground stand up tall! 190 or 200 will do great at slower speeds at that depth.---Not all ground will pull the same either, so your results will vary. I have deep black heavy soil here in the gardens. I made a 2 shank unit with dmi shanks and it is good for a couple feet. It also takes a big tractor, 730-d deere was used for a while on it , 560 no go, too light. never got to try the 190 on it yet, but am thinking it would work good. The best time to rip is when there has been a long dry spell. the drier/harder the ground is the better. You will then shatter the ground down deep and it will stay loose allowing water/freezing to penetrate way down helping to store water for next crop season. If you go in wet ground, all that's going to happen is the shank will just make slots and not brake any chunks loose.--This can help a bit in getting surface water moving down/away. I have always had better crops and less runoff by using rippers. KEN!,---the late season melons can be better than the early ones if they pick up moisture, and if the sun is good! We had a couple late ones here that were really good. thanks; ac fleet
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