Gardens 2025

[JSinMO]

Well the 2025 garden is all planted! Can’t wait to see how the old weed patch does this year!

My garden always looks the best when I plant it and then agin when I plow it under!

[Eugen]

@Eugen Looking Great ! - That does look like a little bigger garden than you had in Canada, will your Kubota be able to handle farm work, or will you be adding a "farm" tractor to your fleet?
Looking forward to more photos when you have the time

All I can say is that I got the urge to get a "farm" tractor. An old one, of course, but they seem to start around 3-4k here, even in bad shape. My MH33 would've been great here.

[Eugen]

@Eugen \that is a beautiful back drop to that garden . Big garden = big work and most important big reward at harvest time .
Are you set up to do canning , drying ,and cold storing your harvest ? What all do they do over there ?

We're not set up for anything Dave, not yet. People do some canning here, but mostly jams. They seem to freeze veggies, and also pickle.

[Eugen]

My garden always looks the best when I plant it and then again when I plow it under!

Yes, I'm stealing this line because it applies exactly to my situation.

[Eugen]

In true fashion with my past, I'm biting more than I can chew comfortably and the do my best to keep up.

Temperatures here have been quite high and little precipitation in the last 2 weeks. So I must water the tomatoes, cucumbers, and pepper plants manually. Of course I want to set up a dripping irrigation system, but time is a little short.

Tomatoes and peppers in the first rows.

You can see the potatoes in the back.

Using this 1000 litres container that I fill up at the creek next to the house. I attached a hose with a valve on to the container.

This I have done as a break from the pick hammer.

[Toolslinger]

I have a 120 gallon tank in a JD 80 dump cart for watering the more remote chestnut tree seedlings... Fortunately this year I've only had to do so once. Usually the 444 gets assigned that duty. Loaded up, it's a pretty good load back there.

[DavidBarkey]

@Eugen be the mother of invention . or something like that . You do what you got to do and in time the modern conveniences will come . How is the house coming along .

[Eugen]

@Eugen be the mother of invention . or something like that . You do what you got to do and in time the modern conveniences will come . How is the house coming along .

I've had a little progress, the rooms have had the concrete floor poured, I'll post a thread on that. There still a lot to do.

[DavidBarkey]

@Eugen be the mother of invention . or something like that . You do what you got to do and in time the modern conveniences will come . How is the house coming along .

I've had a little progress, the rooms have had the concrete floor poured, I'll post a thread on that. There still a lot to do.

You seen our place , But you did not see it before 5 years of renovations . It takes time to do it all yourself .

[JSinMO]

In true fashion with my past, I'm biting more than I can chew comfortably and the do my best to keep up.

Temperatures here have been quite high and little precipitation in the last 2 weeks. So I must water the tomatoes, cucumbers, and pepper plants manually. Of course I want to set up a dripping irrigation system, but time is a little short.

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This I have done as a break from the pick hammer.

That sounds like the kind of weather we had last year. Hot and dry almost no rain. What a difference this year is. So far it won’t dry out. I have a lot to do in the garden but I just don’t see the point of being out in the mud.

I tried a similar setup to water my garden last year but I wasn’t happy with the gravity water flow. If I do that again I’m thinking I might try a small transfer pump.