Gardens 2019

[Robinjopo1]

I think it's birds. I have double layer fencing and it's really hard for anything to get in then out. Next year I'm going to put bird netting on the plants in the Spring. This year, it's too late. Didn't have much of a crop. Some of the plants were 1st year.

 

[Psalm7]

Garden still doing great , as yellow squash is starting to slow down the scallop squash and zucchini is really picking up and the winter squash is starting to put on .
Tomatoes are making giant plants with less tomatoes on them but they do have quite a few on them .

 

[Robinjopo1]

Garden still doing great , as yellow squash is starting to slow down the scallop squash and zucchini is really picking up and the winter squash is starting to put on .
Tomatoes are making giant plants with less tomatoes on them but they do have quite a few on them .

My green is just starting to produce. Ive canned 4 quarts of dill pickles. I actually have some good sized tomatoes this year. My fingers are crossed. I still have more to plant for a late garden. I pulled up 3 that you could tell were nevwr going to produce. They had leaf curl and zero blooms. I am getting lots if yellow squash but only a few zuchs.

 

[Danil54grl]

My garden looks like crap this year. . . I have so many weeds that are knee high. I should not have even tried this season. With me working graveyards 5 months this year, hunny' s surgery and taking care of Granny and now remodel, I just haven't had the time needed. At least I was able to process what I need this year out of the tomatoes and getting plenty of peppers and melon of watermelon, cantaloupe and honey dew.

 

[tmttactical]

Danil54grl. Take what come up, harvest what is available and bury the rest. Call it a year and when things get back to a more normal pace, start the garden again. It won't hut the soil to lay fallow for a bit. JM2C

 

[Brent S]

My garden looks like crap this year. . . I have so many weeds that are knee high. I should not have even tried this season. With me working graveyards 5 months this year, hunny' s surgery and taking care of Granny and now remodel, I just haven't had the time needed. At least I was able to process what I need this year out of the tomatoes and getting plenty of peppers and melon of watermelon, cantaloupe and honey dew.

I definitely wouldn’t be too hard on yourself with all that going on. There is always next year too.

 

[Brent S]

Had a salad with iceberg lettuce from the store, and added ripe cherry tomatoes, carrots, onion thinly sliced beets and cucumbers from the garden in it. Before anyone thinks I’m being healthy though, it was accompanied by a really thick ribeye, baked potato and ear of corn, and toast.

 

[Maverick]

My peppers, corn and cabbage gone to crap. Everything else are doing good but not great, the weather didn't help. The garden is about half the size from last year unfortunately.

 

[Robinjopo1]

Found 2 big juicy tomato horned worms today. The chickens loved them . Got them before they did any damage. I saw the poop trail and followed it. Those buggers are so hard to see.

 

[Brent S]

I need to check on my garden. I’ve been picking ripe tomatoes, cukes, beets, onions and carrots recently. I’m not cooking much so loads of squash are going to waste. I think some melons are pretty close to ripe but hate to pick one when it’s immature and waste it. I’m not spending much time with it but at least it’s still producing.

 

[Robinjopo1]

 

[Robinjopo1]

Psalm. Was told this was in Cannon County. Woodbury. 9 ft with 17 rattles. I wouldld have peed my pants.

 

[Psalm7]

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Thats a Diamond Back Rattler . Yes We have them here but the Timber Rattler is more common here . Diamond Backs get bigger .

 

[Brent S]

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That was a beauty! When I was a boy in central fla I saw lots of 7and 8 footers. Now they are almost endangered. The problem with diamond backs is they are too recognizable. People won’t just let them slither away but chase after them to kill em. I haven’t seen one over 4’ in ages.

 

[Brent S]

Hope that boy knows they can still bite and inject venom after they are dead. At least for a little while their muscles will still contract.

 

[DrHenley]

Damn, that's one HUGE snake!

A farm hand told me one time about a huge rattler my uncle killed in a cotton field when he was riding with him. He said "Dat snake's head was in one cotton field and his tail was in de other cotton field" (on the other side of the road). He said my uncle ran over the snake, and then backed up over it and ran over it again, but it still wasn't dead so he beat it to death with a hunting stool.

Then he said, "You know, I always thought Mr. Buddy was a smart man, but after he done dat...I don' know" LOL

 

[Arcticdude]

Hope that boy knows they can still bite and inject venom after they are dead. At least for a little while their muscles will still contract.

I've heard of people getting "bit" by a dead snake that ended up inside a bale of hay. Usually they just get pricked with a fang. If I was smart (which I'm not) I'd wear leather gloves when I'm handling hay.

 

[Arcticdude]

That was a beauty! When I was a boy in central fla I saw lots of 7and 8 footers. Now they are almost endangered. The problem with diamond backs is they are too recognizable. People won’t just let them slither away but chase after them to kill em. I haven’t seen one over 4’ in ages.

Most of the rattlers that I see here are in the 3-5 foot range. The only rattlesnakes that I kill are the ones that I find around the house, barn and garden area. Unfortunately that seems to average about 1 snake per week.
As soon as I get a cage built I'm going to start catching them alive. Hopefully someone will want them.
The wife put her foot down when I mentioned that I was going to start putting them in the freezer.

 

[Brent S]

Most of the rattlers that I see here are in the 3-5 foot range. The only rattlesnakes that I kill are the ones that I find around the house, barn and garden area. Unfortunately that seems to average about 1 snake per week.
As soon as I get a cage built I'm going to start catching them alive. Hopefully someone will want them.
The wife put her foot down when I mentioned that I was going to start putting them in the freezer.

When they are freshly dead the muscles can still spasm, reflex biting and even inject venom. I don’t believe it will happen for more than 20 or 30 mins though. Human corpses have even been known to sit up, moan and twitch shortly after death. Creepy.

 

[Robinjopo1]

I had a tomato plant break so I brought a tomato into the house to ripen. I waited 3 days and walked in today and my mother was laughing and said .......i hope you don't mind that I ate your first tomato of the season. She had been to the store and bought 4 today so she didn't have to eat it. I wanted to cry. I told her she could have at least saved me a bite and that I thought it was rude. I don't argue with mom because shes my mom, but I had been planning on eating that tomato tonight. She got all pissy and said she would never eat my garden stuff again blah blah... All she had to do was apologize but she has never done so in my 60 years. I'm still wanting to cry. Lol. My daughter agrees it was really rude. THE 1ST ONE OF THE YEAR.
That's my vent for the day.