rico Posted October 27, 2020 Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 Waiting on the repairman so we can finish the "garden." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted November 5, 2020 Report Share Posted November 5, 2020 Last field... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted November 5, 2020 Report Share Posted November 5, 2020 5 minutes ago, rico said: Last field... Awesome work. Spent many of times in that view. Perfect weather to get it done!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 8 minutes ago, Seeking6 said: Awesome work. Spent many of times in that view. Perfect weather to get it done!! TY and yes it has been beautiful weather here to git-r-dun this week. Driest corn I have ever helped run. The second to the last load tested 14.5% for moisture. Dad took the last one in so I imagine that was even drier. Either way Pop is ecstatic. We got about 20 more acres to run tomorrow then it is sit and wait for ice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 24 minutes ago, rico said: TY and yes it has been beautiful weather here to git-r-dun this week. Driest corn I have ever helped run. The second to the last load tested 14.5% for moisture. Dad took the last one in so I imagine that was even drier. Either way Pop is ecstatic. We got about 20 more acres to run tomorrow then it is sit and wait for ice. It's been a long time since I was in that world but when you say 14.5% moisture (besides being dry) is that historically really, really good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 5 minutes ago, Seeking6 said: It's been a long time since I was in that world but when you say 14.5% moisture (besides being dry) is that historically really, really good? The magic # is 13%...and 14.5% is for us without putting it in a grain dryer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 21 hours ago, rico said: Last field... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbmhoosier Posted November 6, 2020 Report Share Posted November 6, 2020 14 minutes ago, IUFLA said: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted November 7, 2020 Report Share Posted November 7, 2020 And back to the spirit of the thread, I got the garden "fall tilled" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted November 7, 2020 Report Share Posted November 7, 2020 18 hours ago, dbmhoosier said: And yet, the surprising number of young Americans who have never seen a live cow?!! https://www.wdrb.com/news/national/surprising-percentage-of-young-americans-say-theyve-never-seen-a-cow-in-person-survey/article_edb89674-20e1-11eb-8d33-8f5c4d81b973.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted November 7, 2020 Report Share Posted November 7, 2020 5 minutes ago, Drroogh said: And yet, the surprising number of young Americans who have never seen a live cow?!! https://www.wdrb.com/news/national/surprising-percentage-of-young-americans-say-theyve-never-seen-a-cow-in-person-survey/article_edb89674-20e1-11eb-8d33-8f5c4d81b973.html Our neighbor's cow came over for a visit just the other day... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted November 7, 2020 Report Share Posted November 7, 2020 17 minutes ago, Drroogh said: And yet, the surprising number of young Americans who have never seen a live cow?!! https://www.wdrb.com/news/national/surprising-percentage-of-young-americans-say-theyve-never-seen-a-cow-in-person-survey/article_edb89674-20e1-11eb-8d33-8f5c4d81b973.html Crazy. Helped my stepdad put in a fence on the farm when I was in college so we could raise our own beef. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted November 7, 2020 Report Share Posted November 7, 2020 16 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said: Crazy. Helped my stepdad put in a fence on the farm when I was in college so we could raise our own beef. Had a guy work for me when I was at Bendix, his goal was to provide 90% of his families food off the property. Remember him telling me about the DNR telling him he had illegally built a pond! His reply was “I didn’t build a pond, I made a way for me to get my tractor to the other side of my property” 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted November 7, 2020 Report Share Posted November 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, Drroogh said: Had a guy work for me when I was at Bendix, his goal was to provide 90% of his families food off the property. Remember him telling me about the DNR telling him he had illegally built a pond! His reply was “I didn’t build a pond, I made a way for me to get my tractor to the other side of my property” Lol. I was taught growing up it's easier to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission. Pretty sure nobody was going to tell my grandpa what he could or could not do on his property. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted November 7, 2020 Report Share Posted November 7, 2020 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Drroogh said: Had a guy work for me when I was at Bendix, his goal was to provide 90% of his families food off the property. Remember him telling me about the DNR telling him he had illegally built a pond! His reply was “I didn’t build a pond, I made a way for me to get my tractor to the other side of my property” My Dad worked at Bendix in Franklin from 1969 to 1986... I saw recently that their old site off of Hurricane St was being investigated as a polluter that caused a high rate of childhood cancers... Edited November 7, 2020 by IUFLA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted November 7, 2020 Report Share Posted November 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, IUFLA said: My Dad worked at Bendix in Franklin from 1975 to 1986... I saw recently that their old site off of Hurricane St was being investigated as a polluter that caused a high rate of childhood cancers... I worked in South Bend 1980 to 1984, hopefully we weren’t part of the problem! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leathernecks Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 I would recommend to all you gardeners to write down the things you did this year that were good or bad. Sometime soon I'm going to post the thoughts on my garden here so I can look back at it in the spring. Some of the things I planted I never touched, and some things I wish I had more of. Have some other ideas for the spring too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 12 hours ago, Leathernecks said: I would recommend to all you gardeners to write down the things you did this year that were good or bad. Sometime soon I'm going to post the thoughts on my garden here so I can look back at it in the spring. Some of the things I planted I never touched, and some things I wish I had more of. Have some other ideas for the spring too. I definitely have to figure out what with wrong with my peppers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostin76 Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 15 hours ago, Leathernecks said: I would recommend to all you gardeners to write down the things you did this year that were good or bad. Sometime soon I'm going to post the thoughts on my garden here so I can look back at it in the spring. Some of the things I planted I never touched, and some things I wish I had more of. Have some other ideas for the spring too. Good idea. I really need to do a better job at this - and labeling what plants were what so I’m not surprised by them next Spring when they come back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milehiiu Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 16 minutes ago, Lostin76 said: Good idea. I really need to do a better job at this - and labeling what plants were what so I’m not surprised by them next Spring when they come back. Compost. Compost. Compost. Leaves in the Fall. Grass clippings in the Summer. And disposables like banana peals, potato peals, coffee and tea grounds.... the entire year. In fact.... most Starbucks offer used coffee grounds year long.... for free.... for gardeners. My son bought me two compost bins, a few years back. Work it the entire year over. But guys.... like Rico.. who have a lot of land can just build an outdoor compost pile.... and work it all year long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leathernecks Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 42 minutes ago, milehiiu said: Compost. Compost. Compost. Leaves in the Fall. Grass clippings in the Summer. And disposables like banana peals, potato peals, coffee and tea grounds.... the entire year. In fact.... most Starbucks offer used coffee grounds year long.... for free.... for gardeners. My son bought me two compost bins, a few years back. Work it the entire year over. But guys.... like Rico.. who have a lot of land can just build an outdoor compost pile.... and work it all year long. What kind of compost bins do you have? I thought about getting one of the outdoor tumbling ones to make turning it over easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leathernecks Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Lostin76 said: Good idea. I really need to do a better job at this - and labeling what plants were what so I’m not surprised by them next Spring when they come back. I know it is probably different for your space, but I leave my garden over the winter and see what I get in the spring. By the time I was ready to plant this spring, I had a few spices that were huge. Had a couple other things coming up that I probably could have transplanted if I didn't already have ones growing inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milehiiu Posted November 8, 2020 Report Share Posted November 8, 2020 43 minutes ago, Leathernecks said: What kind of compost bins do you have? I thought about getting one of the outdoor tumbling ones to make turning it over easy. Boxes with lids. I think the tumbling ones would be good. I just use a pitch fork to turn the compost in my bins. I kind of like the bins.... in that they are obtrusive behind my raspberry bushes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostin76 Posted November 9, 2020 Report Share Posted November 9, 2020 23 hours ago, Leathernecks said: I know it is probably different for your space, but I leave my garden over the winter and see what I get in the spring. By the time I was ready to plant this spring, I had a few spices that were huge. Had a couple other things coming up that I probably could have transplanted if I didn't already have ones growing inside. That’s pretty much the same for me. I do rip out the tomatoes, peppers, and annual flowers. But everything else stays over the winter and I’m always pleasantly surprised to see the rosemary, lavender, and salvias coming back so strong in Spring. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted November 10, 2020 Report Share Posted November 10, 2020 On 11/8/2020 at 2:30 PM, milehiiu said: Boxes with lids. I think the tumbling ones would be good. I just use a pitch fork to turn the compost in my bins. I kind of like the bins.... in that they are obtrusive behind my raspberry bushes. I had a tumbling one when I lived in town years ago. Big believer in compost. I don't do it anymore now that I am back at the ranch as the soil is so much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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