2025 gardens
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CloverKnollFarms
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Push type Earthway seeder.
I have Northen Extra Sweet and Gotta Have It.
The Northern Extra Sweet is much more vigorous. The Gotta Have It is supposed to make up to 3 ears per stalk.
Sawyer Rob
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Harvested potatoes today. This was from 2/3 of a 3x8 bed. If only we had a root cellar...
Dry can them, they taste good and last a long time!
SR
Dry can them, they taste good and last a long time!
SR
Interesting. Thanks for the suggestion - we did just buy a pressure canner!
MossRoad
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Picked a couple bowls of tart cherries before the birds got them. Enough for 3-4 pies.
MossRoad
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Well, I made enough filling for 5 pies! Cooked one, froze one, and bagged the rest for the freezer.
CloverKnollFarms
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I think I'm going to plant another 300 bush beans for August harvest. I have 300 maturing in July, but I have an open 6' x 100' in the garden
Do you sell off produce, or can?
We're drowning in beans with just 16 or so plants, and just planted some more where we pulled up the potatoes.
Sawyer Rob
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To be honest I'm tired of gardening! After growing up on a farm with a HUGE garden and having gardens ever since, they have just become pretty much all work!
SO, I just plant a little for my wife and me and call it good enough. So here's a row with my fav potatoes, Yukon Gold's, and my two fav varieties of tomatoes,
I do have more than one garden spot, and yes, I do have a few other things planted.
SR
SO, I just plant a little for my wife and me and call it good enough. So here's a row with my fav potatoes, Yukon Gold's, and my two fav varieties of tomatoes,
I do have more than one garden spot, and yes, I do have a few other things planted.
SR
CloverKnollFarms
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We sell produce and can. Biggest crops are sweet corn, beans and pumpkins.
Pumpkins are the largest cash crop we have.
It's a small operation right now. About 2000 ears of sweet corn. Maybe 200lbs of beans and 600 pumpkins
Engineer42
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Interesting.
CloverKnollFarms
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Some progress
Some corn is developing tassels.
Some beans are ready to pick.
Starting foliar feeding of the pumpkins starts today.
Buckwheat is covered in honey bees
Some corn is developing tassels.
Some beans are ready to pick.
Starting foliar feeding of the pumpkins starts today.
Buckwheat is covered in honey bees
MossRoad
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Nice. We've got few to no flowers on our tomatoes or peppers. But fruits are doing great. So did the flowers. Strange year up here.
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My tomatoes in raised beds are looking good, 4' high and lots of flowers. The tomatoes in the ground are looking poorly, less than 2' high and no blossoms yet.
We've had some lettuce, peas, onions and radishes so far. Cukes and tomatoes are weeks away.
We've had some lettuce, peas, onions and radishes so far. Cukes and tomatoes are weeks away.
Engineer42
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Picked first string beans Friday, got a 1/4 of a 5 gal bucket full. Tassels have jumped on 1/4 of the sweet corn. Tomatoes look good, picked the first two over the weekend. Got two squash and one zucchini thurs. weird year for them. We are normally covered up by now. Pickles and limas coming. Hopeful for eggplant. Romaine and spinach are done.
CloverKnollFarms
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First beans. These were early, the bushes have a ton of small beans and blossoms.
CloverKnollFarms
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I had just hoed and tilled to break up the crust on the garden yesterday, Bd last night got about .7" of rain over about 7 hours. What could be more perfect.
The only downside I've seen to my 72" tiller is that it pulverizes the soil to the point that after a decent rain, those tiny particles coalesce into a solid crust. The plants don't grow well in that. Even a couple days after breaking it up, you can see a visible difference between areas that I have and have not tilled.
The small tiller leaves larger chunks of soil, that leave lots of cracks and crevices for water and oxygen to penetrate.
The only downside I've seen to my 72" tiller is that it pulverizes the soil to the point that after a decent rain, those tiny particles coalesce into a solid crust. The plants don't grow well in that. Even a couple days after breaking it up, you can see a visible difference between areas that I have and have not tilled.
The small tiller leaves larger chunks of soil, that leave lots of cracks and crevices for water and oxygen to penetrate.
Sawyer Rob
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The only downside I've seen to my 72" tiller is that it pulverizes the soil to the point that after a decent rain, those tiny particles coalesce into a solid crust. The plants don't grow well in that. Even a couple days after breaking it up, you can see a visible difference between areas that I have and have not tilled.
It's called "over tilling" in the first place, you've ruined your soil structure.
I said it on this forum MANY times, improper use of a tiller ruins the soil structure and it's NOT the tillers fault!
SR
It's called "over tilling" in the first place, you've ruined your soil structure.
I said it on this forum MANY times, improper use of a tiller ruins the soil structure and it's NOT the tillers fault!
SR
CloverKnollFarms
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