Planted the taters and started the ‘mater seed.
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Planted the taters and started the ‘mater seed.
It was 3 degrees this morning. 3 degrees. Ugh.
I waited too long to plant the tomato seeds. I'll just have to get seedlings. I saw an incredible amount of potatoes come out of Alaskan gardens when we were up there.
It’s raining here this morning. Hopefully I can get around to planting the squash and onion in the next day or two.
Probably no garden for us this year. Lots of traveling planned.
Have the onions and artichokes seeds started under lights a month ago.
Trying Roselle shrubs again this year (iffy things) and have some alpine strawberry seedlings up.
Next weekend is the eggplant, broccoli and cabbage seeds.
'maters don't get started until mid-March.
Same, mid March. Started mine from seed in the green house. We’ll see what happens. In the past I haven’t had much luck with tomato seed. They come up and die. If they all make it I’ll have a hundred plants. lol
you`ll say what your doing as far as a garden and i can`t tell where you live i live in N.C. and i`d like to compare it to where everyone lives - sorry i just had to vent
Matters are upAttachment 11958
So are the tattersAttachment 11959
Looking good.
That's some good looking dirt in that tater field.
New here, just planted a few tomatoes earlier this morning. I'll plant a few more tomorrow, I am also planning to clean a bit and put some things on a cabinet. Thankfully I just bought a folding wheelbarrow https://gardeningfacts.org/best-whee...arrow-reviews/ that will help me a lot in lifting so much pieces of stuff.
Look out sneakAttachment 11977
In 2-3 weeks I’m going to have an estimated 1000 potatoes. I can maybe give half to family, friends and neighbors. That still leaves a lot to put up. Do to the high water table we don’t have a basement or root cellar. I was thinking about trying the trash can storage for some, just to see if it works. The rest I need to can and/or freeze. Canning would be labor intensive and pricey for tatters with the jars and lids. So, I’m thinking about making bags of French fries and some grated for hash browns for freezing. I don’t have a dehydrator and not keen on running the oven for this. Any thoughts or other ideas?
1,000 potatoes is not really that much, perhaps 100 lbs or so. If you lay them in the sun to dry, inspect them and eat the damaged ones quickly, and keep them cool and dry 100 pounds should be eaten up pretty quickly.
Probably freezing what you can not eat within a couple of months is the best choice of all the storage methods.
I have been on a carb free diet for years but I understand that other folks eat a lot of carbs when they are available. Two people eating two pounds of spuds, baked, boiled, smashed or fried each day will go through 100 pounds of potatoes before they can rot anyway.
If you eat just one pound the supply will probably be gone within 2-3 months so you could keep them in any dry place out of the sunlight. Potatoes last a long time if you don't get them wet and sprout them, even then you can remove the sprouts and eat them anyway.
https://www.survivalsullivan.com/potatoes-storage/
Ok, thanks for the help
@ rebel......Sorry, couldn't resist.:whistling:
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...id=11981&stc=1
lol, might be true but, the misses broke her arm a few weeks ago. Probably hard to dig with one arm.
I’ve been working on irrigation Attachment 11982
I'll bet Crash and I can supply the water if you can supply the beer.
Works for me. Since it isn’t done, what size yoke do y’all need?
The misses said I looked sexy running the vacuum. I said, hold on, let me get my high heels on.
I dug up a 100 pounds this week. 200 hundred to go. It takes about 6-7 weeks.tatters that is
Sounds great. Looks like you will have a fantastic harvest.
#1 wife got mad at me on the second picking of green beans because I picked them and she wanted to do it.. She told me that I knew how much she likes to pick the green beans and I evidently deprived her of the joy associated with that task.... So, I did what any good husband would do... I stopped picking them. That was a couple of weeks ago.. Now I come in from the garden every day and say, "Green Beans are ready to be picked.... again...." I hope it's all fun...
Thing is, she doesn't understand that if you leave even one bean on the bush to mature the bush stops producing.... we wouldn't want that. So, I go along and make sure all of the beans are picked. I water them every other day too.
We'll have yellow squash by the end of the week. Still a few turnips. Broccoli is done for. Carrots are going strong still. Tomatoes and peppers are lagging, not sure why. Lima beans, purplehull peas, zucchini, kershaw, cucumbers and cantaloup and MORE green beans are all up. Red potatoes are ready to be dug.
Turning out to be a pretty good year.
I know we don't eat 300# of potatoes in a year.... Sweet potatoes maybe, otherwise, no...
Alan
We gave away all but 5 pounds. I made some mashed potatoes. They’re great! The next morning I had potato cakes with apple sauce. They’re great too! Lol
One of my cherry tomato plants has blooms. One Big Boy has a few. 2 kinds of herbs have sprouted... I haven't the foggiest what they are. Lol.
maybe one of these days....
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Actually, it got up to 74 today....finally.
Meat plants are closing. Dang it. I don’t like killing animals.
Those spca commercials tear me up. I want to kick some retard ***.
It's a mindset rebel. Name your pets. Not your livestock.
They call it "depopulation", rebel.
Another gutless euphemism is "harvesting". You'd think they were talking about corn or wheat not killing live creatures.
Never fear. They have been kept open. Bacon sammiches have been saved!!!!!!!! Bacon sammiches have feelings too, you know.
Got some. Looks like another week will be just right.Attachment 11995
I guess we’re keeping some Attachment 11997
Nice................
We gave away all but 5 pounds. I made some mashed potatoes. They’re NOT AS GOOD AS SPAM.