2013 gardens

[Goldfish]

What is this tire potato stuff you are talking about?

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[3legged_lab]

What is this tire potato stuff you are talking about?

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Its a way Jim smuggles his tax free taters past the state veggie inspectors.

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[assateague]

What is this tire potato stuff you are talking about?

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I grow my own tires in the potato patch. The chemicals put off by the green leaves of the potato plants combine with the nitrogen in the soil to form small particles of vulcanized rubber. I you build the proper form, it'll basically fill it in as the potatoes grow. I found it works best to stack the forms on top of each other, allowing the rubber to form upwards, rather than sideways. Then I take them to a local tire shaper for finishing and tread cutting. Works great.

[Goldfish]

What is this tire potato stuff you are talking about?

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I grow my own tires in the potato patch. The chemicals put off by the green leaves of the potato plants combine with the nitrogen in the soil to form small particles of vulcanized rubber. I you build the proper form, it'll basically fill it in as the potatoes grow. I found it works best to stack the forms on top of each other, allowing the rubber to form upwards, rather than sideways. Then I take them to a local tire shaper for finishing and tread cutting. Works great.

What's the speed rating on those Spud Years? I'm about due for new motorcycle tires, so should I plant russet potatoes for those?

[assateague]

Yukon Gold for motorcycle tires. Better viscosity.

[Goldfish]

Yukon Gold for motorcycle tires. Better viscosity.

Is that like cleaning your bike tires with armor all tire shine?


(motorcycle humor)

[FlintRiverFowler]

Chicken manure. Your neighbors will hate you. Lol.

March 16th is our "legal" date for spreading manure around here. Nothing but chicken farms, everywhere you go. When they start spreading, it's straight up nasty for about 6 counties there for a while. And I was raised around it. Really gets the imports riled up.

I really kinda like the smell when it's spread on a field. Only second to fresh cut hay.


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[assateague]

I don't mind it at all when it's in the houses or coming out. But after it's sat somewhere stewing for 5 months, that's another story altogether.

[Flightstopper]

What is this tire potato stuff you are talking about?

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Jim is the freshly dug potato expert

[assateague]

Love me some Amish women.

[Goldfish]

Forgot about that

[Goldfish]

So if you have to keep dumping dirt on top of the potatoes, how do commercial growers deal with that?

[Eric Haynes]

:lol:

Love me some Amish women.

Not sure why this made me think of it, but, ever try making kimchi in your garden?

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[assateague]

So if you have to keep dumping dirt on top of the potatoes, how do commercial growers deal with that?

They have a rower that goes down between rows and piles up dirt. They only do it once, but their potatoes are planted a little deeper to start with, too. The Irish do it forever- those bastards will make little potato mountains around their plants.

[assateague]

:lol:

Love me some Amish women.

Not sure why this made me think of it, but, ever try making kimchi in your garden?

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Not with my own stuff, but I've tried making it before. It was horrible.

[Tomkat]

Its hard to think about the garden when its 9 degrees out. But I will have the same as last year- onions cabbage cucumbers corn tomatoes, peppers and I am going to grow some horseradish.

First things first, fix the tiller!!!

Also going to plant a 1 acre foodplot near an area I intend to build a permanent ground blind....

[Eric Haynes]

:lol:

Love me some Amish women.

Not sure why this made me think of it, but, ever try making kimchi in your garden?

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Not with my own stuff, but I've tried making it before. It was horrible.

I love the stuff, but ive only had a good homemade batch once. Black dude i was stationed with in Minot used to have some brewing all year. Good stuff.

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[Flightstopper]

Spring is showing

Blackberry

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[assateague]

Good crap, my tomatoes are about 3" tall in cups in the greenhouse, still.

[Flightstopper]

I started WAY too early but it will even out in the end. You will be picking strong and we will be burnt up.

[The Duck Hammer]

Tomatoes only got planted two days ago here.

[NuffDaddy]

My garden is still froze on one end and 6" of muck on the other.


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[one2many]

i am downsizing the gardens this year by half.

[Flightstopper]

i am downsizing the gardens this year by half.

So how many acres is that?

[one2many]

i am downsizing the gardens this year by half.

So how many acres is that?

always did 10 acres of sweet corn and 10 acres of everything else. they gardens would get worked by the people at my folk's church and people from my church.
i always plowed and tilled the land and planted the sweet corn,i have catch barrels on many barns ad machine shops to help with watering,everyone else had to do the rest.
the people who worked the gardens get what they can eat the rest is donated to food banks and/or sold to be donated to needy familys in the area.
last year very little was salvaged in the drought. i dont feel this coming year is going to be all that much better,hence only half. maybe in the next couple weeks i will change my mind.

[MuddyWaterWarlock]

i am downsizing the gardens this year by half.

So how many acres is that?

always did 10 acres of sweet corn and 10 acres of everything else. they gardens would get worked by the people at my folk's church and people from my church.
i always plowed and tilled the land and planted the sweet corn,i have catch barrels on many barns ad machine shops to help with watering,everyone else had to do the rest.
the people who worked the gardens get what they can eat the rest is donated to food banks and/or sold to be donated to needy familys in the area.
last year very little was salvaged in the drought. i dont feel this coming year is going to be all that much better,hence only half. maybe in the next couple weeks i will change my mind.

The experts around here are calling for another drought year, whether it happens or not we'll see.

[one2many]

i am downsizing the gardens this year by half.

So how many acres is that?

always did 10 acres of sweet corn and 10 acres of everything else. they gardens would get worked by the people at my folk's church and people from my church.
i always plowed and tilled the land and planted the sweet corn,i have catch barrels on many barns ad machine shops to help with watering,everyone else had to do the rest.
the people who worked the gardens get what they can eat the rest is donated to food banks and/or sold to be donated to needy familys in the area.
last year very little was salvaged in the drought. i dont feel this coming year is going to be all that much better,hence only half. maybe in the next couple weeks i will change my mind.

The experts around here are calling for another drought year, whether it happens or not we'll see.

thats what they are saying for us too...thinking about selling everything off and moving to Mexico and becoming a drug kingpen

[aunt betty]

Good crap, my tomatoes are about 3" tall in cups in the greenhouse, still.

I'm about a week behind ya. Planted snow peas, radishes, and spinach on April 1.
Will start putting out the rest of the stuff I started inside at around 4-25.
We still can get frost up until the end of April.
I'm in good shape. Got everything tilled and ready except for where I'm expanding.
We want more green beans this year. Growing a small punkin patch so Logan can pick his own jack-o-lantern. At $25 it's well worth growing your own.

[huntall6]

i am WAY behind the curve! the weather around here has thrown me off on the garden this year. i dont have any seeds, plants, starter soil, or horse shit for the garden yet. though with the wife being a stay at home mom, she gets to do the watering/bug smashing this year (if we dont have a drought like last year ).



ASSA, whats with the rye?? do you put it on before winter then till it in come spring?? or do you just add it with the horse shit? and where the hell do i buy rye?

[assateague]

Yep, just broadcast it in the fall. You should be able to buy bit at any farm store/seed store. The ones where the farmers go, not the ones where the suburban housewives go. I may mix in winter wheat as well. Just gotta make sure you till it under in the spring before it seeds, which usually isn't a problem at all, unless you get about 2 months behind. Just throw the manure on top of it as you go or in the spring, then till it all under at the same time. I now have to spread the horse manure as I go through the year, since I'm not allowed to keep a manure pile anymore, no matter how small. Has to be in a covered shed. Fucking environmentalist dickheads.