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08-05-2011, 07:47 AM
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Where your time is spent....
Well, now that I look back at some pictures, I see where all my time has gone! Its worth it in the long run, but I would be affraid to see how many hours I have put into this garden this year. Had a few issues along the way that I have worked out and some that are yet to be solved. Had some wilt on my tomatoe plants, think I solved that with a copper spray. Seems to either have started to solve the problem or the plants are out growing the fungus?
Still have some flea beatles to get rid of yet. From everything I have read so far, I need to get some neem oil at the nursery to spray for them. My poor bean & sunflower leaves on some of the plants look like someone was target practicing with a shot gun!  So far this year I have been staying ahead of the weeds - SO FAR! Been watering it at least once a week since we have not had much rain lately around here. Had to replant my peas 3 times, beans twice and zuccini twice as well. Have already done my second planting of carrots, lettuce, and beets. Think the wife will have the first planting of beets gone by the end of next week. She will have to go without some for a little bit - the second planting are only about 2 inches tall or so. The leaf lettuce is starting to get strong tasting since it was planted back in first part of June, so hopefully the next round will be maturing soon as well. Need to get some compost to put on the garden this fall for sure. The soil is good, but there isn't too many worms living in it so I think I want to move some in for next year. Was planning on putting an inch or so of compost on the garden around the end of September or first part of October and then I can have it on there and ready to plow under this fall when the garden is done. I do not really want to add it in the Spring if I can help it. From what I read it is better for the soil to have it there over the winter. Now if I can only get ahold of some oak leaves to work in there too. They are supposed to be great for nutrients too. My one oak I have will not give me enough leaves to conver even a quarter of the garden.  Hopefully the tomatoes will start to ripen in the next couple weeks as well. They are spotty right now because of the copper spray I had to soak the plants in. That is why they have that kinda blueish green spottiness to them in some of the pictures. DSCN1738.jpg DSCN1739.jpg DSCN1764.jpg DSCN1770.jpg DSCN1779.jpg
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08-05-2011, 07:51 AM
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Mike Ontario, Canada IH built 982, IH built 782, IH built 782 parts tractor, 100 w/fenders & lights, #4 trailer, 42" front blade, IH 2B tiller, 12" Brinly plow, Brinly cultivator, IH push mower, Sims cab, IH snowthrower, 450 blower. Now everyone wants a Cub! Beware of the Wife
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08-05-2011, 07:53 AM
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08-05-2011, 07:56 AM
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Mike Ontario, Canada IH built 982, IH built 782, IH built 782 parts tractor, 100 w/fenders & lights, #4 trailer, 42" front blade, IH 2B tiller, 12" Brinly plow, Brinly cultivator, IH push mower, Sims cab, IH snowthrower, 450 blower. Now everyone wants a Cub! Beware of the Wife
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08-05-2011, 11:08 AM
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That has to be one of the nicest looking gardens I have ever seen. Awesome looking dirt too. What kind of vines do you have growing around the tripods? I had never thought of doing that. Guess it shows my lack of farming skills.
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08-06-2011, 09:34 AM
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Thanks for the nice comments!
On the three tripods together I have yellow beans and then two kinds of green beens. The rail fence in the middle is spagetti squash, then the small rails at the corner next to the raspberries is just flowers. Supposed to be huge white flowers that kind of look like a trillium. Actually looking forward to see them when they blossom. Supposed to have a great smell to them as well. Idea behind the flowers throughout the garden is to get different smells around the garden in hopes of keeping the deer away. So far the fence has done its job that I put up. I added another 3 feet to the already 7 feet I had yesterday. I need to get one more roll then I can have it finished off and then cut the tops off my tall posts. I figure if a deer is going to want to jump over the fence now.... the begger had better be inside when I wake up in the moring, cause he'd be going into the freezer! Oh trust me, there is weeds in that garden....I find them everyday!! I just know I do not want to let them go like I have in the past....its REALLY hard to stay ahead of the weeds around here. Doesn't help that I have a field next to me full of them that doesn't get cut down each year. Needless to say when I get an East wind, a lot of the seeds fly my way and get my lawn and garden. I hate weeds!How are your tomatoes doing Allen, I seen your wife's posting a while ago that she was having issues with them? My daughter was looking at the garden yesterday and was joking she was going to submit it to the newspaper, she thought I was nuts spending so much time on it and how clean it was. My mother was comparing it to the Victory Garden in England because of how its arranged and different looking - I told her she was nuts, its NO WHERE near that nice!! The soil is pretty nice I do admit. Sandy loam for the top eight inches or so then its a good layer of sand below that and if I get down as far as a foot and a half I will hit clay, REALLY hard clay. I know this soil is much nicer to work with than the clay that I grew up with at home in the garden - now that sucked to work in!
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Mike Ontario, Canada IH built 982, IH built 782, IH built 782 parts tractor, 100 w/fenders & lights, #4 trailer, 42" front blade, IH 2B tiller, 12" Brinly plow, Brinly cultivator, IH push mower, Sims cab, IH snowthrower, 450 blower. Now everyone wants a Cub! Beware of the Wife
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08-06-2011, 05:41 PM
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They are doing ok, Mike, The extreme heat is getting to them though. Not sure how much longer, they'll last.
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