What have we got in the ground?

[welshrarebit]

I grow grass! The cows then eat the grass and I eat the cows...

 

[dave17a]

 
I don't plant anymore....... BUT, what I learned by accident was that the latticework that goes around the bottom of my house, which I had a bunch of old sections in the barn was unbelievable for drying onions. As long as the rain doesn't go down thru the top the onion didn't rot, if it rains on the bottom facing up I had no damage. I just dropped those onions down thru the lattice.

Fast easy and no rotten rings inside the onions.

You mean tying them on the lattice and letting them hang?

I grow fine stem alfalfa to cater to horse folks and folks with sheep/goats.... Small bales with the JD 14T baler... Not many folks bale small squares..... The tractor is a 53 Golden Jubilee Ford... cool tractor.... 3 speed Sherman, over/under and direct.... also has an under drive Howard....

Dave

Sorry froma distance them tires looked like 28 inchers. Would like a jubilee someday just for another Ford. Got a 871 I am restoring and a 981 row crop going on now.

 

[dirtsailor2003]

I love the start date of this post! Still waiting here to plant anything!!!

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• dirtsailor2003
• May 6, 2014

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• dirtsailor2003
• May 6, 2014

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• May 6, 2014

 

[pc farmer]

The only thing I have in is lettuce and onions, Case. Had frost this morning.

 

[dirtsailor2003]

The only thing I have in is lettuce and onions, Case. Had frost this morning.

Yep was scraping ice off the windshield this , and having just watched the weather will be for at least another week!

 

[pc farmer]

I think I might plant the rest this weekend. Low temps in the 50's for the next 10 days. Winter might be finally over.

 

[foamheart]

You mean tying them on the lattice and letting them hang?

Just lean the lattice up against the wall at an angle, then just push the tops thru holes. Onions stay out, leaves stay in, no rain goes thru the leaves into the onions.

The water down the "leaves" is what causes the internal layers (or rings) of the onions to rot.

It was that one year you get with the most beautiful onions bigger than your fists. Happens like one in 10 around here. So much rain. I had a whole row of white, a row of yellow, and what was supposed to be a 1/2 row of red (it was slightly more red than a pink color... had streaks).  LOL

 

[daveomak]

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Sorry froma distance them tires looked like 28 inchers. Would like a jubilee someday just for another Ford. Got a 871 I am restoring and a 981 row crop going on now.:usa:
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Without going and looking I think they are 14.9 x 28's....

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WRONG !!!!! again... 24's .... Memory ain't that good no more !!!

 

[bishgeo]

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• bishgeo
• May 7, 2014

I usually plant what the groundhog likes to eat. Any good ground hog remedies other than lead poisoning I'm all ears.

 

[dandl93]

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• bishgeo
• May 7, 2014

I usually plant what the groundhog likes to eat. Any good ground hog remedies other than lead poisoning I'm all ears.

Fill his hole with propane and lite it makes a big bang mite make the neighbors upset but it works.I took care of many of gophers that way.I have 3 dogs that would not tolerate it being around for very long. 

 

[dave17a]

 
Just lean the lattice up against the wall at an angle, then just push the tops thru holes. Onions stay out, leaves stay in, no rain goes thru the leaves into the onions.

The water down the "leaves" is what causes the internal layers (or rings) of the onions to rot.

It was that one year you get with the most beautiful onions bigger than your fists. Happens like one in 10 around here. So much rain. I had a whole row of white, a row of yellow, and what was supposed to be a 1/2 row of red (it was slightly more red than a pink color... had streaks).  LOL

Can't do yhat up here. Just lay on screen in basement. Got some pics on asparagus coming up.

Without going and looking I think they are 14.9 x 28's....

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WRONG !!!!! again... 24's .... Memory ain't that good no more !!!

Yea I gotta look at stuff any more to remember. Too many gas engines!

 

[dave17a]

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• dave17a
• May 8, 2014

  Big a$$ asparagus. Growing wild by fence close to reguler stuff

 

[dirtsailor2003]

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• dave17a
• May 8, 2014

  Big a$$ asparagus. Growing wild by fence close to reguler stuff:42:

Nice!! I wish ours would pop up! Last year it was up in early April. This year still nothing.

 

[dave17a]

Nice!! I wish ours would pop up! Last year it was up in early April. This year still nothing.

Oh it will come up. Maybe a few, maybe alot. Depends on this crazy a$$ weather. Last year for me was minimal, as were shrooms. This year is great.  Good luck!

 

[dave17a]

Without going and looking I think they are 14.9 x 28's....

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WRONG !!!!! again... 24's .... Memory ain't that good no more !!!

600 or 800 Series?

 

[dave17a]

I grow grass! The cows then eat the grass and I eat the cows...

So no garden? Cows will eat the garden. Don't letm in there!

 

[dave17a]

 
600 or 800 Series?

Looked back, Jubilee, Sorry.

 

[dave17a]

Well got all the garden in Saturday. Will post pics later to tired to even take any. Waitin on rain every day and today over an inch! YES! Beans Maters, bell peppers Jalepenos goliath grillers, Um, aneheim, pablano,  two kinds of okra, one I call Martha's after a friend, fat and short and they are exactly that, reguler okra. Caged all from rabbits including peppers, which I have smaller woven wire. Sweet taters yet to plant. Oh yea corn. Got alot. New kind a salesman give me, which is supposed to not get cut worms or nothin. Seems so genetecly engineered is scary to eat. Got peaches and cream too.. Food plot too, soy beans.

 

[dave17a]

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• dave17a
• May 13, 2014

Here is the pic I said I would post. Red and white onions on left, zoom in and 19 hills of taters, kinnebeck and red ones, don't recall the name. eyond that is spinach and radishes. between is Peachas and Cream, got more from planted seed from a friend in another spot, salesman. Said it was 400$ for a 29# bag that I saw. Genetic stuff. Supposed to not get worms or smut. Maters on right. Beans in back plus a few more peppers.

 

[dave17a]

 
Just lean the lattice up against the wall at an angle, then just push the tops thru holes. Onions stay out, leaves stay in, no rain goes thru the leaves into the onions.

The water down the "leaves" is what causes the internal layers (or rings) of the onions to rot.

It was that one year you get with the most beautiful onions bigger than your fists. Happens like one in 10 around here. So much rain. I had a whole row of white, a row of yellow, and what was supposed to be a 1/2 row of red (it was slightly more red than a pink color... had streaks).  LOL

Few and far between on good rain. One year had the biggest taters ever, and vines were dead, ready to dig. Wife said diggem and remember grandad said to just leavem in the ground to be storage for awhile. Rained about 4" or so that night, didn't have the computer (radar) then. Rotted away. Never heard the end of that one.