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Well it is that time of the year again. I thought about a club but I doubt there’s enough interest for that so here we are. 

My wife planted the raised bed garden this year. We have kale and celery that came up from last years roots. The kale actually never died off. We had growth way back in early March. 
 

Today’s PPE was simple and comfortable!

This little dandy is my irrigation station. My well water has a ph of 10 or higher so I run down to Bristol and get Canandaigua Lake water for the gardens. Under that upside down trash can is a jet pump with built in pressure tank. The banjo fitting for the tank is plumbed with pex through a back flow valve to keep the pressure on the tank. I just plug it into an extension cord and water away. The pool hose there also has a banjo fitting so I can easily and quickly flood the new trees in my little orchard. 

I’m trying a scarecrow in my unfenced garden in desperation. The crows have pulled hundreds of seedlings right out of the ground to get at that succulent endosperm. The popcorn and sunflowers were decimated so I replanted and put up the Ogre doppelgänger. These crows seem pretty smart so I’m hoping that this looks so much like a trick to them that they over-analyze and think that it’s a trap! I just need enough time so the roots are developed enough that they can’t pull them out.

We leave you with the sun setting over Baileyshire. 
 

 

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I've got 3 red bell peppers, 2 big Bertha green bell peppers, 2 jalapeños, and a pimento. Beefsteak and best boy tomatoes. 2 cucumbers and 2 zucchini plants. The zucchini are really taking off and so are the jalapeños. I didn't do Roma tomatoes this year because I'd need a freaking field of them for the amount of sauce I make and I just don't have the room. Lots of Mexican and Italian food this summer. But that's pretty much year round.

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22 hours ago, ubkev said:

I've got 3 red bell peppers, 2 big Bertha green bell peppers, 2 jalapeños, and a pimento. Beefsteak and best boy tomatoes. 2 cucumbers and 2 zucchini plants. The zucchini are really taking off and so are the jalapeños. I didn't do Roma tomatoes this year because I'd need a freaking field of them for the amount of sauce I make and I just don't have the room. Lots of Mexican and Italian food this summer. But that's pretty much year round.

Haberno, jalapeño, cilantro...must haves. 
 

Those beefsteaks make unbelievable sandwiches!

I did so well last year that I was able to give a lot of produce to the local churches to give out to the older folks that can’t git’r’done themselves anymore. I’ve expanded a little this year. Let’s hope I can get even more out there this year.
 

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32 minutes ago, Ogre said:

Haberno, jalapeño, cilantro...must haves. 
 

Those beefsteaks make unbelievable sandwiches!

I did so well last year that I was able to give a lot of produce to the local churches to give out to the older folks that can’t git’r’done themselves anymore. I’ve expanded a little this year. Let’s hope I can get even more out there this year.
 

While I don't think cilantro tastes like soap, (I guess that's a thing) I do not like it. Not a fan of cilantro heavy salsas and I leave it off my tacos. But I always have a couple herbs on the windowsill. Mostly basil and parsley. 

A couple years ago I had cherry tomatoes forever! They just kept on coming. It was great. Hopefully I have the same success this year with the big guys.

I'll probably only use 3 or 4 habaneros all summer, so I'll just snag em as I need em. Hate to have a good yield and have it go to waste.

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On 5/30/2020 at 9:42 PM, Ogre said:

Well it is that time of the year again. I thought about a club but I doubt there’s enough interest for that so here we are. 

My wife planted the raised bed garden this year. We have kale and celery that came up from last years roots. The kale actually never died off. We had growth way back in early March. 
 

Today’s PPE was simple and comfortable!

This little dandy is my irrigation station. My well water has a ph of 10 or higher so I run down to Bristol and get Canandaigua Lake water for the gardens. Under that upside down trash can is a jet pump with built in pressure tank. The banjo fitting for the tank is plumbed with pex through a back flow valve to keep the pressure on the tank. I just plug it into an extension cord and water away. The pool hose there also has a banjo fitting so I can easily and quickly flood the new trees in my little orchard. 

I’m trying a scarecrow in my unfenced garden in desperation. The crows have pulled hundreds of seedlings right out of the ground to get at that succulent endosperm. The popcorn and sunflowers were decimated so I replanted and put up the Ogre doppelgänger. These crows seem pretty smart so I’m hoping that this looks so much like a trick to them that they over-analyze and think that it’s a trap! I just need enough time so the roots are developed enough that they can’t pull them out.

We leave you with the sun setting over Baileyshire. 
 

 

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How many acres do you have?

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29 minutes ago, Crosschecking said:

How many acres do you have?

We have a family “compound”. Mrs iT and I have nine from an original 32 acre lot, her grandfather’s. My in-law’s house are some acres of woods apart from us. He had nine acres until “Papa” passed. (Really super awesome WW2 Vet). Her aunt (former Catholic Nun) lives in the original house. She’s a no-sh!t-taker so beware!
 

It is at an intersection of roads so we all have driveways on different roads. I’m very handy, which my FIL isn’t, which his father (Papa) was (Union Carpenter), so I’m the caretaker of the entire 32 acres now. As far as the eye sees in those photos IS Baileyshire.

Makes sense that I’d feel compelled to grow as much as I can and give it to all these less fortunate folks around here.....Eh?

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Less fortunate. Hard working folks around here.
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While I’m here... 

This is how I do potatoes, Adirondack Blue this year.

When/if they grow enough I add a second tire and more soil. They’re balls-to-the-wall this year so... 

Take a sawzall and the cut the sidewall out of the tire so it doesn’t hold water and breed mosquitoes. Why pay to discard used tires?

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This is a North side berry garden. Blackberry and raspberry. The raspberries have a second crop at Thanksgiving just in time for a fresh pie. There’s a cat door in the basement widow so my two can come as go and kill off the mice that come for the berries.

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I built this to find a home for the single strawberry plant that my mother gave me before she passed. The mice gobbled them up pretty good last year but they come back and I’ve found a ton of little strawberry plots growing wild in the meadow so it’s working in accordance with someone’s plan.

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A few years ago I built a greenhouse, but this year I decided I didn't need 8' walls, I just needed to keep the groundhogs out, so I broke it down to 3 feet. Growing 3 or 4 kinds of tomatoes, zucchini, honeynut squash, basil, oregano.

The blue bucket foreground is goldfish to provide some nitrogen, doesn't work as well as I had hoped, maybe I need more goldfish.

Tomatoes started to flower this week.

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15 minutes ago, New Scotland (NS) said:

Chipies are cute.  I saw one just this morning.  I named him Chippy Weasel.

No. They most certainly are not.

They have dug up the entire garden and are killing some of the plants.

And that ***** chirping! I have to going and chuck rocks at them to get them to stop.

It’s official. I’m a crazy old man at war with chipmunks.

***** devil imps.

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18 minutes ago, SwampD said:

No. They most certainly are not.

They have dug up the entire garden and are killing some of the plants.

And that ***** chirping! I have to going and chuck rocks at them to get them to stop.

It’s official. I’m a crazy old man at war with chipmunks.

***** devil imps.

Hey man, I've got robins and grey catbirds nesting all over my back yard. Talk about chirping. Every bird in the neighborhood comes to my yard to wake me up starting at 5:30 every morning. Even the blue jays and Cardinals come by. The dogs took care of the sparrow's nest but I suppose they'll be back soon too. 

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26 minutes ago, New Scotland (NS) said:

In other news ...

It's still winter in NS.  Really!!

Of course it it. I'm closer to Jacksonville than I am to you and I live in the northeast!

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