Gardening - 2015
- Scottscoaled
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I'm hoping so! Between not having to make ten passes and then struggle to plant, and not having to watch ballgames several times a week after work, I should be able to do wonderful things here at the Maplecrest farm. Will miss watching the boys play ball though.
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- Coal Size/Type: Lots of buck
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Ahhhhh, Victory! Got the new blades in. The holes were a little off and the blades were hardened. Burned a $20 drill bit out on the first one I tried to drill out. Luckily a machinist friend took care of me and spaced the holes right. Threw the grade 10.9 bolts in and torqued her down. All I can say is WOW! This thing chews the dirt up pretty good. Yeah, I know Phil. You don't have to post a picture of a rig pulling a fifty foot wide path. My little rig still keeps me home and out of trouble.
It works real well. I did my wife's garden in one pass, ten minutes total. Had to get more so the neighbors got the treatment too. Nice and deep. Fluffed high.- Scottscoaled
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- Coal Size/Type: Lots of buck
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Isn't much in the ass department. I think it's only 22-23 horse power. But it has enough that it will turn the tiller at a slow speed and walk over the big rocks instead of jumping up in the air when it hits at high speed. It's just a toy but works well.
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- Coal Size/Type: Lots of buck
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I'd like to get that Massey Ferguson in the back of the picture running . The rear wheels are locked up. I think the brakes are locked up. That is a 30 horse machine and would work even better.
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Scott, the 1030 is a 26hp tractor.
http://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/000/8/1/ ... -1030.html
Dan.
http://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/000/8/1/ ... -1030.html
Dan.
- windyhill4.2
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Well Scott , what a difference from the strait ones you had on to these with a curve. Looks like a tiller again instead of a slot making machine.
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I got a 0.02 acre plot for gardening (LOL)
I buying a motion sensitive sprinkler to keep the darn deer out from eating my crops.
Anyone know if that works?
I buying a motion sensitive sprinkler to keep the darn deer out from eating my crops.
Anyone know if that works?
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davidmcbeth3 wrote:I got a 0.02 acre plot for gardening (LOL)
I buying a motion sensitive sprinkler to keep the darn deer out from eating my crops.
Anyone know if that works?
From what I have been told, you need to move it around so that it does not hit them from the same place to prevent them from forming a memory of it.titleist1 wrote:Local experience here indicates the sprinkler gadget works for about a week then they get used to it and it doesn't scare them off any more.
We have an electric fence around the garden, the lower side has a strand around the top of the posts to prevent them from stepping over it. The fence was originally installed to stop wood chucks from eating our beans, so the strands are set low .
Dan.
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Got it tilled up couple weeks ago. JD 318 with a tiller on the back. Makes beautiful work. Plowed it up last fall with a 1941 JD LA 2 cylinder tractor.
Got some potatoes, beans, broccoli, onions and carrots in. The rest is a couple weeks out.
https://youtu.be/oy3itdYimRI
https://youtu.be/2zW7esoTvps
Got some potatoes, beans, broccoli, onions and carrots in. The rest is a couple weeks out.
https://youtu.be/oy3itdYimRI
https://youtu.be/2zW7esoTvps
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I spread 725bu. of manure and hay on the garden today. The manure and hay, I get, if left rotting in the pasture grows weeds that are over 8 feet tall and make it hard to mow the pasture. So I piled up the mess and started hauling it up to my garden. The best part of this deal is that I get the use of the farmers equipment to do it with. I put in the time and he gets a more or less free clean up of his winter pasture.
I will till in the manure tomorrow or the next day. Than I will haul and spread five more loads of a day or two after that.
Dan.
I will till in the manure tomorrow or the next day. Than I will haul and spread five more loads of a day or two after that.
Dan.
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I intended to keep this thread updated all thru the gardening season. Things happen in life to change plans & ideas. Our shop work has been very overwhelming for me,with my kidneys declining & the battle with Lyme,my energy level is too often short of what is needed for the work at hand. This has kept me from helping much with garden work,so my wife was pushing hard to keep after the garden work & was doing pretty good. She has now had 3 tick bites since spring,her energy has gone downhill into the low energy zone that I almost constantly live in. We have both had Lyme for who knows how many yrs. now. She has always suffered with brain fog from the Lyme & I have suffered from the low energy,now she has low energy too !!! The rye we put out last fall never grew ,so we put oats out this spring & just this past week end I finally got it all cut down to use as mulch in various parts of the garden. We did not get pics of me cutting & bagging the oats, sorry. We are planning to cut back on the size of the garden & will be turning the unused parts into lawn again. We will likely no longer bother to grow grain for mulch but probably buy hay or straw locally instead. We will not discontinue gardening ,but will be cutting back on the size & focusing on more intensive growing in a smaller area.We will cut back on the labor intensive parts of outdoor work to try and focus our available energy on our shop work which is our income producer. At age 58 ,we are realizing that our age is getting in the way of working hard labor also. The good news is that my wife's energy level seems to be picking up & just today we were told that my kidneys are showing a slight improvement. I just did a bit of rototilling this evening so she can plant some more carrots & red beets.Tomatoes are slow this yr with a fair amount of cooler weather & a good bit of cloudier weather with all the rain we have gotten. Potatoes seem decent, green beans are doing good,limas are looking good so far,the strawberries did good,squash is ok,but not spectacular as we would have liked,sweet potatoes are looking good. Hopefully we can get some pics in the next few weeks or we will be taking pics of a snow covered garden instead. This summer has gone by us at jet speed,less than 2 months till the heating season begins again !
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We did not get anything planted in the garden as the rain started and the garden never dried out enough to till it more than once.
Dan.
Dan.