Gardening Thread 2021

[Mini Horses]

After getting mower running, I went to raking. My garden is just a little Bigger than Bays, 110x110. Some Is underutilized. It's dry, I was filthy!!!! I pull this little rake that actually does a good job smoothing out the rough ground disc left. Stop a lot to remove debris, go again. Then pitchfork grass to wheelbarrow. A job. So here's where I am....pile of debris was just burned. It's setting where it hasn't been raked, see chunky dirt? Other is raked. About 85% done. Finish tomorrow, plant, moisten, crawl into house! This is real work! I have one of the 3' wide tillers you pull. Hope to use that tomorrow. Walk behind one needs a cable that's on order.

Here's 8 barrows of dried roots and stuff piled...

This is piles as raked, to pitchfork up...

This is raked area...

I do plan to plant a good amount for animals...pumpkins, turnips, etc late, for winter treats. Good amount of corn this year. Some sweet, some decorative dent...to eat and sell in fall, dried, if it does well. Have painted mountain and bloody butcher plus a blue and white one, forgot name. Rain Sun night and most of Mon will be welcome!

I am working on it!!!

 

[Mini Horses]

@Mini Horses just look at that lovely strip of green that the mustard greens are hiding in. If I don’t pull them out, they will get over 5 feet tall with roots and a thick stalk that I have to cut down.

They may be in weeds but, just lovely leaf and color. You know it takes very little please a gardener! Mine isn't always pretty but, productive. That's what counts!

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

After dinner used the weed wacker cut all the orchard grass and clover. Found that while raking it.
It's natural not having legs, sticks shouldn't move, things should make noise and flee from my presence like birds do. I'm not a fan and this just from a garter snake.

 

[Baymule]

That is some pretty dirt! I KNOW the work that went into getting the garden ready to plant.

We came in filthy, sweaty and tired too.

Thanks for the compliment on the mustard, it's my favorite. When cooked, it turns green, the pot liquor turns purple. It does dress up those weeds, doesn't it?

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[Baymule]

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After dinner used the weed wacker cut all the orchard grass and clover. Found that while raking it.
It's natural not having legs, sticks shouldn't move, things should make noise and flee from my presence like birds do. I'm not a fan and this just from a garter snake.

Haha, that's funny. We have an aging female Great Pyrenees that hates snakes and kills them. It is fascinating to watch her stalk a snake. She feints, lunges, jumps back, circles until the snake strikes, then she grabs it and shakes it and flings it. Repeat. She shakes them to pieces, then kills each piece over and over. She was a messed up dog when we got her and even though she has come a long way, she is still crazy. I call her the Psycho B!tch.

 

[Alaskan]

for 3 rows of pole beans, 32’ long

That is a huge mess of beans!!!!!

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

Haha, that's funny. We have an aging female Great Pyrenees that hates snakes and kills them. It is fascinating to watch her stalk a snake. She feints, lunges, jumps back, circles until the snake strikes, then she grabs it and shakes it and flings it. Repeat. She shakes them to pieces, then kills each piece over and over. She was a messed up dog when we got her and even though she has come a long way, she is still crazy. I call her the Psycho B!tch.

I'd buy that sweet puppy a steak for everyone she got. One day I was barefooted picking strawberries and a blacksnake struck at me. Last time I went out there with no shoes, last season we had strawberries, last blacksnake that escaped me SSS.

 

[Mini Horses]

Rains that were coming are now breaking up! . That dirt which looks gray, is really very dark brown. It's a dust bowl right now! Ride thru and you are covered with a dust cloud....when I showered the water bouncing off body onto wall was running down As black. My pants gave off a cloud of dust as i took them off. Haven't seen this in a while....we so need rain!! Actually watered a section of ground before raking to help, and it did. Dry did help separate weed and dirt. Get a fork full, shake, dirt just fell out.

Today, I'm thinking I will water a section to plant. Leaving the last to rake a couple days. My nose can't take but so much dirt. Plus, I work all week and NEED TO PLANT! Need to see something growing. Hope to have rain by next weekend. I'll water plants until. Have hoses, sprinklers and a well......I'm ready.

 

[Baymule]

That is a huge mess of beans!!!!!

I had a 32’ row of green beans last year, it took so long to pick them! So I asked on TEG If anyone had purple podded green bean seeds to share and got 3 different kinds of pole beans plus a bush bean that is good as a dried bean. Planting them all to see what I like best fresh and for canning. We sell some vegetables from the garden, not a lot, but some. Mostly we share around the neighborhood. There is a poor couple on disability and we try to give them all we can. All those beans will find a home.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

@Mini Horses NWS shows maybe scattered showers tonight thru tomorrow. High pressure moving in again. Least it's cool. Been over a week since more than a sprinkle and not looking good thru this week. I watered last night, stuff was looking a little droopy.