Gardens 2023

It's ground engaging time. Seeds, manure, soil, and everything that goes with them. But that's not all. Cutting and hauling wood, chainsaws and the works!
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Re: Gardens 2023

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Eugen wrote: Mon May 08, 2023 10:15 pm That should be a great harvest. The idea of double planting is foreign for us up here. You have a long growing season, nice! :cheers:
It’s pretty common down here not to see a frost till October or sometimes November. Even with 6 or 7 months of warm weather I still hate winter more and more each year! :109:
I don’t know how you guys up north do it! :worship:
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It’s called hibrrrrrnation Jeff. :giggle: We can get frost into the middle of June and start up again in the middle of September.
Don’t like cold and winter. Every year I dislike it more and more.

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I decided to go out this evening and set the stakes for the garden fence. :wife: came out to see. I told her I was going to push them in with bucket on the 648 like I did last year. Well that’s a no go. The ground is too dry and hard around the edge of the garden to just push them in.
I said “raise me up in the bucket so I can drive them in”, well I’ll be darned if Mrs. JSinMO didn’t want to keep running the 648! So I had her pull up to each stake, raise me up , then I drove them in with sledge hammer.
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It worked out great, and she did a great for using the 648!
We put the stakes in as crooked as a dogs back leg, but it was nice to have some help and to see her using the tractor!
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That's why we have :wife: to help us right?! :D

That looks good @JSinMO , and I'm sure it feels good to do something together. I'm going to try and get my wife to do something together with me on some tractor something. :D
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Garden Fresh Goodness.
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Harvested, steamed, and eaten within 30 minutes.
Eugen failed to mention a surprise gift he presented after our tractor rim exchange in Toronto yesterday.
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A loaf of his home made sourdough bread. The ultimate way to finish off the sauce left behind after eating the asparagus.
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@Spike188 That asparagus looked pretty tasty! We've been enjoying a bit of it lately while we can get it fresh from local farmers - was saying to :wife: tonight that it's one veggie I'd like to try growing when we get our garden plots started up north... like to try growing some Ostrich ferns back in the forest too... fresh fiddleheads would be such a treat in the springtime :)
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Talk about asparagus. Our neighbour grows a small patch next to their house and every year they produce quite a lot and give us some too. We too would like to grow it.
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Yes ,that sour dough bread is great .
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Here is our garden fence for this year.
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I’m going with 4 strands of wire. 2 down low one in the middle and one up top. May need to adjust the position on them, we’ll see how it works. It was much easier and faster than putting up chicken wire.
I’m also testing out this solar fencer. It say to let it charge in the sun for 3 days then turn it on. I hope it gives a good zap!
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I can not vouch for the solar fences , BUT I can tell you the plug inveriety packs one hell of punch . In my carelessness I tested it once again yesterday .
:cuss: :!: will strikes on a sunny day . :headbash: :headbash: The :wife: was standing next to me when I did it . :bla: :smash: Pay attention , that hurts she says . No :cuss: I said as I stand there shaking from being electrocuted again .
Now it is for horses and has a length of fence rated in miles . If anyone ever needs the heart started at my place I know what to do .
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