let's see your veggie garden {pics}

[SmokesAhoy]

Fish are also considered vegetables.

 

[greenmonster714]

I went fishing the other evening and caught 5 nice eating size catfish. Total weight was 10.5lbs. Cleaned them up and will have enough for dinner this weekend. I told the wife not to put the scraps in the garbage. Well, ya know she did it anyways. Today I had to haul the can out to the road and you can still smell it 100ft away. Should be nice n ripe by Friday pickup...lol.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I went fishing the other evening and caught 5 nice eating size catfish. Total weight was 10.5lbs. Cleaned them up and will have enough for dinner this weekend. I told the wife not to put the scraps in the garbage. Well, ya know she did it anyways. Today I had to haul the can out to the road and you can still smell it 100ft away. Should be nice n ripe by Friday pickup...lol.

Sure sounds like a lot of fish to eat on a weekend.
Should have composted it. Fish scraps are high in nitrogen.

 

[BarG]

I went fishing the other evening and caught 5 nice eating size catfish. Total weight was 10.5lbs. Cleaned them up and will have enough for dinner this weekend. I told the wife not to put the scraps in the garbage. Well, ya know she did it anyways. Today I had to haul the can out to the road and you can still smell it 100ft away. Should be nice n ripe by Friday pickup...lol.

Sounds like a good time. I always feed my scraps after cleaning to the buzzards. They find and dispose in no time. I pissed my sister off one time when I dropped 2 gar in her front yard (4' and 5') I thought her husband knew someone that wanted them , the next day I get hollered at. LOL

 

[Brown Thumb]

Sitting here, I see why my Drarf apple trees don't put out much fruit.

 

[BarG]

How come Brown Thumb?

 

[Brown Thumb]

How come Brown Thumb?

It appears that pine trees grow 3 to 4 times faster or dwarfs don't grow at all

 

[BarG]

Pine trees have tap roots and grow fast.

 

[BarG]

Winged leaf elms took over my place and have been killing oaks and anything around them. I declared war on anything 10"-12' dia.and less within 15-20 ' of my 100 yr. old oaks. I have 50 oaks dead or dying, which means a ton of work for me.

 

[Brown Thumb]

Winged leaf elms took over my place and have been killing oaks and anything around them. I declared war on anything 10"-12' dia.and less within 15-20 ' of my 100 yr. old oaks. I have 50 oaks dead or dying, which means a ton of work for me.

firewood up here, we love dead oak. Work tho

 

[BarG]

I am telling you, I used to save fire wood, no more. although with some resources and cheap labor it might be worth it.

 

[BarG]

A saw mill is the solution.

 

[BarG]

Brown Thumb, even a white oak log that has been dried and cracked produces some very , very fine rustic paneling. I have been decorating my home with it from my chainsaw lumber. I made makeshift saws from my chainsaw to lumber up a log 15 yrs ago. That lumber is in my home now. The more fractured and split the cooler it looks. And book matchs. Any rejects I use for out buildings, like chicken coops.

 

[BarG]

Of course I own all the other equipment to mill it into usable product after the laborious process of handling and drying and storing..

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

View attachment 21039Sitting here, I see why my Drarf apple trees don't put out much fruit.

It could just be the photo, but those look like spruce to me.

 

[BarG]

It could just be the photo, but those look like spruce to me.

that is an absolutely beeautiful view. You remind me of the guy that lives at the start of my road,
He owns one of the tractor companys here in town.

 

[Brown Thumb]

It could just be the photo, but those look like spruce to me.

They are spruce, I have Doug fir, Norway spruce, Fraser fir, blue spruce.
My property was a old overgrown Christmas tree farm.

 

[deluxestogie]

Growing Summer Lettuce

Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce

Arizona has been scorching hot this summer. Here is an article from Underwood Gardens (aka Terroir Seeds), which is an Arizona nursery and seed producer. It discusses specific techniques that may help growers of "cool season" veggies anywhere.

Lettuce normally starts to bolt at 80°F, but this has not only survived, but thrived at over 100°F for more than a week and more than 90°F for almost two weeks, this is a technique you should try.

http://www.underwoodgardens.com/grow-lettuce-in-summer/

Another article from the same source discusses techniques to improve germination of lettuce seed in warm temperatures: http://www.underwoodgardens.com/improve-lettuce-seed-germination/

A heat tolerant lettuce variety that is open pollinated (so you can collect its seed and replant it next year) is Black Seeded Simpson.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

I went out to harvest the Anka garlic this evening. I forgot to put on my mosquito repellent. Big mistake! Cigar smell does not keep mosquitoes away. The garlic aroma that wafted from the broken garlic roots does not keep mosquitoes away. Hurrying does not keep mosquitoes away.

Of the 30 or so heads, I courageously dug 6. The rest will wait for tomorrow. The surprise is that they are much larger than last year's Anka garlic. I account for the larger size with two differences.

1. Last year I planted fairly tiny cloves. I saved the biggest heads to plant for this year's crop.
2. This year, following rainmax' suggestion, I left them in the ground for 3 weeks longer.

These are a hard neck garlic type, so I can't simply braid the leaves together. Instead, I plan to try a method used for tying garlands of chili peppers. A string is suspended from over head. Starting at the bottom of the string, the hard neck of a garlic will be knotted on. Closely spaced knotting then proceeds up the string. I'll use either a slipknot or a clove hitch. (Get it? Clove....) Seriously, laying a clove hitch over an end (of a post or of a garlic neck) is easier and faster than a slipknot.

I just counted. Six mosquito bites--one per garlic head dug.

Bob

 

[Brown Thumb]

They look good.