BilletHead Posted March 8, 2018 Posted March 8, 2018 21 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said: Do you have poles going off of your deck ?!?! The term NessVegas should explain that. Firemen and the strippers in Vegas use poles. Ness doesn't put out fires but firemen have showed up at his front door during cooking, BilletHead Terrierman, Johnsfolly, Deadstream and 1 other 1 3 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Terrierman Posted March 18, 2018 Posted March 18, 2018 Back to gardening. I took last year off - it was the first year of retirement and it was play time. But now, back to the real world. Have a quality 60'x60' garden spot. It's been ripped, fertilized limed and tilled four times. Thanks to neighbor with the tractor and implements! Today we planted two rows of red potatoes, two half rows of English peas, separated by a cattle panel trellis, a half row of candy sweet yellow onions, a fourth row of radishes, and sowed mammoth dill in a corner. We also have a planter that in its former life was a freeze proof concrete cattle water fount. It's got butter crunch lettuce from starts, spinach, red leaf lettuce and the old standby black seeded simpson leaf lettuce in it. Herbs are also going in pots from starts. WooHoo! Quillback, tho1mas, BilletHead and 3 others 6
BilletHead Posted March 18, 2018 Posted March 18, 2018 WooHoo is right Rick, Got lettuce starts outside last week. Had 100% survival transfer to the outside bed. Have two types of romaine, butter crunch red leaf and salad bowl in there. Prop the covers up on the warmer sunshine days as it gets pretty hot in there. Days like today and at night shut them up. I think they have doubled in size since transplanting. I have twelve of the self watering tubs made up now. Sure hope they work . A few tomatoes going in the house. They are not gigantic like our man Ness variety but doing ok after a bad start. Still awaiting on some ordered other tomato seeds, BilletHead Johnsfolly, tho1mas, Terrierman and 1 other 4 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Terrierman Posted March 18, 2018 Posted March 18, 2018 What kind of tomatoes do you favor? I am a huge fan of Cherokee purple, brandywine, beef heart and big beef. With fourteen cages we should be fine. We're also going to put in a hill of Boston pickling cukes and a hill of Muncher dual purpose cukes. There will be two full rows of green beans and two half rows of sweet corn planted twice for two full rows of sweet corn. When it comes to sweet corn it's hard for me to plant anything other than the old standby butter and cream. That and a few peppers will take care of us for this year.
BilletHead Posted March 18, 2018 Posted March 18, 2018 Rick we like the Black Krim and a few celebrities. Something yellow too. Like big rainbow. Cherrys for salad. We have to do raised beds because of poor soil. Have done beans with limited success. Pepper wise do cubanelles , something hot and little sweet ones. BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
ness Posted March 18, 2018 Author Posted March 18, 2018 Still love the covered, raised beds, Mr. BilletHead. Anxious to see how the self-watering containers work. Everything is safely indoors and under lights here. All the tomatoes and about half the planned lettuce are downstairs. Got a lot on the plate these days, but may get the lettuce out and under hoops in a few weeks. Time will tell. This may be my last year here, so I’m thinking about the next owner. May be pulling the asparagus, black raspberries and gooseberries because I think 90% of the potential buyers would consider a negative. Kinda sad, but things change and I gotta change with it. John
BilletHead Posted March 18, 2018 Posted March 18, 2018 13 minutes ago, ness said: Kinda sad, but things change and I gotta change with it. Life is constantly in flux. We learn to adapt and we in BilletHeadVille hope it goes smooth for you friend. The BilletHead's ness 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
ness Posted March 18, 2018 Author Posted March 18, 2018 19 minutes ago, Terrierman said: What kind of tomatoes do you favor? I am a huge fan of Cherokee purple, brandywine, beef heart and big beef. With fourteen cages we should be fine. We're also going to put in a hill of Boston pickling cukes and a hill of Muncher dual purpose cukes. I’m a big fan of Cherokee Purple and Brandywine. For flavor, I think they’re tough to beat. But, they’re not as easy to grow as a nice, determinate, disease resistant hybrid. John
Terrierman Posted March 18, 2018 Posted March 18, 2018 Three years ago, we had ugly tomatoes running out of our ears. Lovey took them to the cancer center and for a few days, they kind of sat around. But after a few days, she was the most popular person in the office. Must have the right spot. They bear late too. Determinates will flood you when it's time and then they are done. Have had good luck with mortgage lifters and super fantastic too. If they're in the stores at the right time will likely have at least one vine of those two in a cage also. Super Fantastic have really HUGE leaves. And they're good meaty tomatoes too with good flavor - at least to me. Spare me the early girl, big girl, etc. Too much like what you can find at the store. grizwilson 1
Quillback Posted March 19, 2018 Posted March 19, 2018 15 hours ago, BilletHead said: WooHoo is right Rick, Got lettuce starts outside last week. Had 100% survival transfer to the outside bed. Have two types of romaine, butter crunch red leaf and salad bowl in there. Prop the covers up on the warmer sunshine days as it gets pretty hot in there. Days like today and at night shut them up. I think they have doubled in size since transplanting. I have twelve of the self watering tubs made up now. Sure hope they work . A few tomatoes going in the house. They are not gigantic like our man Ness variety but doing ok after a bad start. Still awaiting on some ordered other tomato seeds, BilletHead Hey BH - where did you get those tubs?
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