CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[Mike CHS]

It's another dig but you can always plant another wood post beyond your end post to use that.

I have a couple of spots where I have posts that go beyond the fence but we use them to anchor cattle panels or whatever we need to go from one paddock to another.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That"ll sure work, I've been thinking about a place for a compost boxed area....factor the post in the set-up....thanks Mike that'll work....

 

[CntryBoy777]

Oh, I almost forgot....I took a stroll thru the garden this evening and took some pics....finger is for size perspective.... ....

 

[Mike CHS]

It's amazing how fast things grow this time of year.

 

[Bruce]

That last post just ain't right Fred!! I haven't even planted squash yet! Wife and daughter did plant some peas and spinach last weekend. Nothing else will happen until we get back from Wisconsin late Thursday afternoon next week, leaving in a couple of hours.

I'm not worried about you screwing up your van using it for fencing, I was worried you would pull with the van and screw up the fence

Those animals won't know what to do with themselves when you finish their new area!

 

[Hens and Roos]

nice looking garden, we have ours tilled but nothing planted yet- its been a little chilly here yet.

Safe trip @Bruce

 

[greybeard]

1st spring in 7 years that I haven't planted a garden.
I'm kinda digging just mowing the grass in that spot this year instead of hoeing, watering, tilling middles, killing rabbits and skunks, fighting crows, Bermuda grass, and cutworms, fertilizing and all that goes with it.

 

[Latestarter]

Man can I identify with all that... Love fresh from the garden produce, do NOT like all the work involved with getting it though

 

[greybeard]

I don't mind the work all that much I guess. It's the weather. 2 years running, the garden was a sea of mud, interspersed with a week of dry, hot days. Ground would look dry, but walk down a row and break thru the crust & sink up past your ankles, and those deep footprints just held water the next time it rained and made it even worse. I had a great crop of blackeyed peas and purple hulls last year but couldn't get in there to pick them. Squash and tomatoes succumbed to root rot and I just decided not to do it this year.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Ya could always just throw a couple of square bales of hay on the ground....cut out a hole 2-3/bale....depending on spacing....put in some potting soil...and plant your plant in the hole. Quick, easy, and maintenance free excepted for watering......to fertilize just put some pen cleanings on the dirt. Ya can grow most anything, plus ya can sit on the bale and not the ground to tend to them. Also, you avoid many soil pests that may attack your plant. Anything viney like watermelon has to be watched to support any hanging melons, but once the vine hits the ground that's where they will be...unless they run and climb on something else....
It would give ya a quick start to a more expanded plan for next year to work a garden with so much still left to do. It would be worth it to just finds a decent "Farmers Mkt" around there and buy bulk...like a bushel of peas, beans, tomatoes....work them up and stash them in the freezer. This gives ya the fresh that ya want, without having to fight the heat and humidity. It is much easier sitting in front of the AC while shelling, snapping, shucking, or such.