Mary, Mary quite contrary How does your "Victory" garden grow?

[N9BOW]

9 hours ago, wily said:

Dambdest thing...back window went up just fine when we got home.

You better hope we don’t have a tooth paste shortage with all those onions and garlic

A lot of those are for the local farmers market just down the street.. I'll keep enough for us but sell the rest.

[N9BOW]

It’s freakin snowin!!!!!

sigh

 

[wily]

i hear ya...I think Iowa weather might be worse than Missouri weather...changes a lot

we’ve got a frost warning tonight in Joplin.  

 

[N9BOW]

I really like these guys!.. and their planter.. May pick one up... I have a bunch of antique cultivators.... but these guys are genuine!.... I like it!

 

[wily]

I think potatoes are good idea...he mentioned corn as number one but didn’t give any specifics 

im on the double rows...that’s my plan...did you check out that drip depot site?

i ain’t growing okra or squash...besides the ornamental type for my wife.  I don’t really like to eat either...so why grow it?  

I do like carrots tho...might add some carrots to my cucumber row

[Terrierman]

I have very modest aspirations for this year. Maybe four or five
tomato plants, one hill each cucumber, zucchini and yellow summer squash.

I was not able to garden at all last year so basically starting from scratch.  Sprayed some roundup on this spot about ten days ago.  Started to work it up today.  It was hard to say the least.  Had to spade it to let the tiller get deeper than an inch or two  It's a good spot and has grown a lot of produce for us.  

This took about two hours and a tank and a half of tiller gas.  Still too cold to put anything out that I'm doing this year.  Maybe by this time next week.

Anyway, here it is.

 

[N9BOW]

5 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

I have very modest aspirations for this year. Maybe four or five
tomato plants, one hill each cucumber, zucchini and yellow summer squash.

I was not able to garden at all last year so basically starting from scratch.  Sprayed some roundup on this spot about ten days ago.  Started to work it up today.  It was hard to say the least.  Had to spade it to let the tiller get deeper than an inch or two  It's a good spot and has grown a lot of produce for us.  

This took about two hours and a tank and a half of tiller gas.  Still too cold to put anything out that I'm doing this year.  Maybe by this time next week.

Anyway, here it is.

 

Lookin good my friend!  Hows the front tine do on virgin.

My rear tine super bronco about kick the crap outa-ya even at the shallowest setting..
After 6-8 passes I'm about 3 inches and its manageable... gonna keep working it till its all the way down 6-8 inches tilled... Nothing a bit of cursing, setting the tiller in reverse and getting back in the path and some ibuprofen cant handle.

[Terrierman]

Just now, N9BOW said:

Lookin good my friend!  Hows the front tine do on virgin.

My rear tine super bronco about kick the crap outa-ya even at the shallowest setting..
After 6-8 passes I'm about 3 inches and its manageable... gonna keep working it till its all the way down 6-8 inches tilled... Nothing a bit of cursing, setting the tiller in revers and getting back in the path and some ibuprofen cant handle.

It's slow going and does require ibuprofen.  Spading it helped a lot.  This spot has had maybe five passes.  It could use five more.

[MOPanfisher]

9 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

I have very modest aspirations for this year. Maybe four or five
tomato plants, one hill each cucumber, zucchini and yellow summer squash.

I was not able to garden at all last year so basically starting from scratch.  Sprayed some roundup on this spot about ten days ago.  Started to work it up today.  It was hard to say the least.  Had to spade it to let the tiller get deeper than an inch or two  It's a good spot and has grown a lot of produce for us.  

This took about two hours and a tank and a half of tiller gas.  Still too cold to put anything out that I'm doing this year.  Maybe by this time next week.

Anyway, here it is.

 

Wish I was there and able with my tractor mounted, reverse time tiller.  That thing turns it into beautiful tilled soul in one pass.  Rock can get a little tricky but I have plenty and am used to digging them out when they get hunt up.  I used to plant double rows of corn in one garden, made a big deep furrow going boh ways.  Planted on both sides on the high part and then utilized the ditch of put a hose down in running slow and flood irrigate it every couole days, sometimes needed a bnotched board to make it back up and soak in properly.  Worked especially well with the canteloupes I used to grow, loved them thinga, think they were called Ambrosia, old time, thin rind and super sweet/musky.

[wily]

Thanks for the advice on the double rows...I’m going to use your idea and plant on the high side...and maintain the ditch so to speak.