Anyone else a farmer here? Reply #15 – May 24, 2013, 11:15:43 AM Quote from: jcassity;415910start you some mint in the yard,, if you mow often then it wont hurt your feet or,,, find a wild patch of spiriment along a creek bed,, makes the yard smell wonderfulnice work on the spices and herbs, we do that to.I bet the 4 zucchini plants did great. If you like fried green tomato's, zucchini will act / taste and look like fried green tomato.I do have some wild spearmint in the yard. Not in the lawn though. It's in the back along the fence with my neighbor. I does make the garden smell nice. This is my first year growing zucchini. I've done cuspoogebers before so I figured I'd give zucchini a try. I eat quite a bit of it throughout the year so I might as well grow it myself. Most of the plants up here start dying off around mid to late October, depending on the weather. The only thing that tends to survive into the late fall (almost to Thanksgiving many years) is the brussel sprouts. I'm usually pulling the last ones off in late November.On a good note I'm already eating out of my garden. The rhubarb has been going nuts the past few weeks (finally warm after 10+ inches of rain over tha last month) and I've had to harvest some to keep the plant from over growing. So far we've made rhubarb cake, ins, and strawberry-rhubarb pie. If the rhubarb keeps growing at this rate I'm going to have to start making jam out of it by next month. I probably won't get any tomatoes for another 6 weeks or so. I usually pluck some of the first big green ones to fry up. I think it's hard to beat fried green tomatoes and ice tea on a hot summer day. Quote Selected
Anyone else a farmer here? Reply #16 – May 24, 2013, 04:20:55 PM I used to handle 30,000 to 50,000 bales of barley and wheat straw in the summer with a few thousand hay bales mixed in. All over the county. No hooks, no gloves. Filled many barns, wagons, rig trailers, etc. Fortunately the New Holland 575 baler had the kicker chute so we didn't have to walk the field but rather ride the wagon to pack 192 bales per wagon. Sometimes if we were filling a barn that was close, one person would 'kick on' a wagon load while a few others were offloading the wagons into the barn. Also, some of those bales were handled twice. Once in the field and again in the barn.Cutting wood and fixing fence in the winter. I still help out occasionally when I'm home.The guy I helped out used to have anywhere between 30 and 50 beef cattle hence the fence fixing.A lot of the fields we farmed are all neighborhoods now with homes selling between $400K and over $1 million. Quote Selected
Anyone else a farmer here? Reply #17 – May 24, 2013, 04:21:09 PM I used to handle 30,000 to 50,000 bales of barley and wheat straw in the summer with a few thousand hay bales mixed in. All over the county. No hooks, no gloves. Filled many barns, wagons, rig trailers, etc. Fortunately the New Holland 575 baler had the kicker chute so we didn't have to walk the field but rather ride the wagon to pack 192 bales per wagon. Sometimes if we were filling a barn that was close, one person would 'kick on' a wagon load while a few others were offloading the wagons into the barn.Cutting wood and fixing fence in the winter. I still help out occasionally when I'm home.The guy I helped out used to have anywhere between 30 and 50 beef cattle hence the fence fixing.A lot of the fields we farmed are all neighborhoods now with homes selling between $400K and over $1 million. Quote Selected
Anyone else a farmer here? Reply #18 – May 24, 2013, 04:53:46 PM Quote from: thunderjet302;415923 so I figured I'd give zucchini a try. . prepare yourself,,,,,,,,,,,, the stuff requires little or no intevention once the leaves get big enough to shade the ground,, they never stop producing and you'll give away more than you eat!!!!!!that stuff is outragious, they should figure out how to get gasoline from them,, no body can fugg up growing zucchini Quote Selected
Anyone else a farmer here? Reply #19 – May 26, 2013, 10:37:34 PM I cut hay yesterday, a day later than i wanted but oh well. We planted 90 tomato plants today, about a quarter of the total. The little ones need more greenhouse time. The orchard is doing great, peaches are the size of golf balls. Potatoes should go in this week as well.That's a lot of straw Karl, few people around here even bail straw after taking the wheat crop off. Of course there isnt a lot of wheat around here either, prices have been so low people save the wear and tear on the epuipment. I guess that's why small squares cost $4-5 around here. It will be interesting to see what happens with hay prices too, after last year's drought we saw grass hay at $6-7 a bail, timothy at $9-10 and alfalfa at $12!!!! I'll be burning down 10 acres this fall and seeding it into timothy to sell to the horse people. Quote Selected
Anyone else a farmer here? Reply #20 – May 26, 2013, 11:02:38 PM just start growing pot,, the FDA will back you up. Quote Selected
Anyone else a farmer here? Reply #21 – May 27, 2013, 02:10:48 PM Quote from: CougarSE;416083I cut hay yesterday, a day later than i wanted but oh well. We planted 90 tomato plants today, about a quarter of the total. The little ones need more greenhouse time. The orchard is doing great, peaches are the size of golf balls. Potatoes should go in this week as well.That's a lot of straw Karl, few people around here even bail straw after taking the wheat crop off. Of course there isnt a lot of wheat around here either, prices have been so low people save the wear and tear on the epuipment. I guess that's why small squares cost $4-5 around here. It will be interesting to see what happens with hay prices too, after last year's drought we saw grass hay at $6-7 a bail, timothy at $9-10 and alfalfa at $12!!!! I'll be burning down 10 acres this fall and seeding it into timothy to sell to the horse people. Our bales were around 42 inches long, 18 inches wide and 16 inches high I think. They weighed in the 40s... between 40 and 50 lb I think. The hay was around 70. He packed his bales heavy because he sold by the ton so the more you can cram into the same space, you get more money for less handling and less twine, less running up and down the road, etc. Most of the barley straw went to horse people and most of the wheat straw went to landscapers - hydro-seeders. Quote Selected
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