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ENG18LT
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Drink up!
Long road to home.
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Drink up!
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ENG18LT
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Thank you.
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ENG18LT
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Thanks Eddie, I look forward to many years of hiding from my wife in it!
dave1949
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So Lee, What's next on your list? I went back and read Post #1, so I gather you have extensive plans.
I think you should mostly kick back this winter, enjoy life and re-charge your batteries for next summer.
I think you should mostly kick back this winter, enjoy life and re-charge your batteries for next summer.
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ENG18LT
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So Lee, What's next on your list? I went back and read Post #1, so I gather you have extensive plans.
I think you should mostly kick back this winter, enjoy life and re-charge your batteries for next summer.
Well, before winter arrives I need to install the new furnace in the existing house or winterize it. Would like to get the furnace in, then I can use the place as a hunting camp and general get away when I have had my fill of the city!
Other then that there are some little things I can tackle if I get restless, but no major plans till at least spring. Even those may be pushed to next fall. So, a well earned break is on the docket for a couple months, at least from large projects.On a side note, the garden did horribly this year. Only thing that produced worth a darn was the potatoes. Oh well, always next year!
dave1949
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Well, before winter arrives I need to install the new furnace in the existing house or winterize it. Would like to get the furnace in, then I can use the place as a hunting camp and general get away when I have had my fill of the city!
On a side note, the garden did horribly this year. Only thing that produced worth a darn was the potatoes. Oh well, always next year!
Gardens, the Red Sox and The NE Patriots -- well, there's always next year. :laughing:
Our garden was about average but ran late by a couple weeks. Only planted tomatoes, cukes, string beans, onions, carrots, lettuce, spinach and radishes this year. The asparagus was good and plentiful. The rhubarb was divided and transplanted last fall, so I wasn't sure about harvesting too much of that.
I have some Mammoth variety sunflowers about 8'-10' tall that are all in bloom now and most will make decent seeds before a killing frost. Bird food, but pretty to see.
I think you deserve a break.
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ENG18LT
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Our garden was in real late as we had a month of rain almost everyday right at the time I was going to prep it for my wife to plant. Then with me building the barn every minute I was out there it did not get till/weeded as it should have. Just not a good year for it between the weather and the neglect.
BUT I GOT A BARN!!!!!!!!!!
A good trade if you ask me. :laughing:
Is the asparagus a perennial or do you need to plant it every year?
BUT I GOT A BARN!!!!!!!!!!
A good trade if you ask me. :laughing:
Is the asparagus a perennial or do you need to plant it every year?
dave1949
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Asparagus is a long-lived perennial. You can order "crowns" as they are called, from most of the online nurseries. You plant those crowns and don't cut any shoots for the first 2-3 years. A light harvest in the third year is okay if the plants are strong and doing well. After that, you can cut the new spring shoots for several weeks, then you need to give the plant a chance to nourish itself by growing the tall fronds.
Asparagus is sure tasty fresh cut, but it takes considerable tending to keep the weeds out and the harvest season is fairly short. I've not tried heavy mulches or plastic, so I can't say how well that works but I suspect mulch would be an improvement.
Some of the common varieties like Jersey Giant grow over six feet tall, likes to bend in the wind, and throws a lot of shade. So it's best to keep it far enough away and north and east from other growing areas so it doesn't smother and shade them.
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ENG18LT
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Thank you.
