Brown Thumbs, 2015 Ramblings and Babbling Grow Thingie

[Brown Thumb]

Just one down pour yesterday when I got home.
The plants are taking there time, the rows of grass between them is about ready to be mowed tho.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Just mowed the rows and the plants instantly got taller

Stumbled upon Bambi checking out the apple trees hiding under a pine tree.
I'm suprised the mother is not around. There is a fresh road kill deer right up the road from my house. I hope that's not Mom.

 

[DGBAMA]

If she is still there in a few hours, she will need help to survive.

Baccy is looking good.

 

[Brown Thumb]

She is not there this morning, But I Heard her calling for her mother this morning out back somewhere.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Baccy is starting to Take Off.

The Veggie Garden is starting to Rock and Roll. Picked almost all the radishes, time to plant more.

Trying a new venture this year, Plots almost ready. Fertilize and till once more next weekend.

 

[ProfessorPangloss]

Any hints?

 

[DGBAMA]

What's the "new venture"?

 

[grgfinney]

Food plot for bambi?

 

[Brown Thumb]

Food plot for bambi?

It ain't a Food Plot, But actually could be used in some ways for that if you like manual labor.
Yes Bambi will be all over it like a, well you know.

 

[deluxestogie]

Baccy is starting to Take Off.
Trying a new venture this year, Plots almost ready.

It's really obvious. With the tobacco starting to take off, the new venture is probably nothing more than a landing strip.

Bob

 

[Brown Thumb]

It's really obvious. With the tobacco starting to take off, the new venture is probably nothing more than a landing strip.

Bob

Your right on money, with my initial intentions.
This is the baccy plot that got Washed away last Yr.
I was going to just plant grass.

 

[Brown Thumb]

This grow out pot plant is rocking and rolling.

 

[Brown Thumb]

They Baccy is Out Of Control. Looks like a bumper crop this yr.
My kids new adventure to make a little money, it seems to have turned into my job and Jacobs.
I was looking for Indian corn seed for the wife, I plant some every yr. for decorations for the wife.
I always got it from the local do it best store but they stopped making up their own packets this yr.
long story short, Jason the store owner is willing to sell cobs with husks and stalks and split it in half.
I Spoke to another store owner where I buy my super hot pepper plants from and they want to add it to their selection in the fall. Hell I don't know, some time and A hundred bucks in seed won't kill me.
just about done. Still waiting for some seed for the middle.
8 different types of went in so far.

 

[ProfessorPangloss]

How big of a patch is that? That's a lot of corn to do on the fly and by hand. But for your son, it'll be character-building.

 

[Brown Thumb]

It's around 75 x 250.
We pretty much do everything around here by the seat of our pants.
The sweet corn is rocking and rolling also.

 

[ProfessorPangloss]

I hear that "seat of pants." I just started a half pound of heirloom dent corn and ordered another half. Supposedly the cobs are enormous, so I could start carving pipes and making hominy, not like I don't have enough to do as it is.

your stuff looks awesome.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Sucker and weeding time.
I am removing the bottom leaves while I am at it to give the dirt some fresh air. I don't use the lower leaf anyway. Might as well put the energy into the upper leaf.


The 24 inch spacing is a little narrow for the Hickory Pryor.
The leaf is 24 inches long all ready. The leaf is touching the stem of the plant next to it.

 

[Brown Thumb]

One Quater of the patch done, tomorrow I will mulch around them with the Baccy stalks that I ran thru the wood chipper last yr. that never decomposed.
I read that the lower leaves actually help hold up the plant.
If that is true Im in big trouble.

 

[deluxestogie]

Removing the lower leaves should increase the nicotine concentration in the remaining leaves, as well as increase average leaf size. As I recall from published studies on flue-cured leaf, the removal of 4 to 6 bottom leaves improved the quality of the remaining leaf. Removal of more than 6 bottom leaves decreased the total poundage and value of the crop.

Bob

 

[Brown Thumb]

I must have read the same article.
Removing 4 to 8 leaves reduced the poundage a acre by 26 pounds. It Don't sound like a lot but for a Baccy farmer that would really add up fast.
I kept the trimming to around 4 leaves or less.