Gardens/plots for 2018

Billy Bee · Feb 6, 2018

oosik said:
Billy Bee - there must be something organic that you can mix up and spray on the ground and lower on the corn stalks. I sure would not give up on corn if ants are your only problem. When I had a garden - either the coons or deer had to designate a member for traffic control. It would get so bad in the early evening you could hear the high speed collisions and see the survivors staggering off. The grunts, squeals, snorts and growls were the participants attempting to move part of the "players" to other areas of the garden.

They had absolutely no manners and took no hostages...........

I'm not giving up on corn,even if a have to buy an aardvark. I have plenty of deer and coons around here. I put 3-4 rows of caution tape around the garden, keeps the deer out. As for the coons,I live trap them but for some reason they don't survive it. I start trapping in the spring, I call it a preemptive strike. When the corn gets close to ready,I have 3 traps in the garden. I also plant a "sacrificial" garden with left over seeds. It's about 100 yards from my "good" garden. I don't take care of the sacrificial garden and let them eat the he!! out of it. Seems to work. I agree with the no manners, so I'm takin' no hostages
Bill

oosik · Feb 6, 2018

Back in the day when I had a garden - both the neighbor and I burned our garbage in 55 gallon burn barrels. One summer I almost had a "woops" but was just able to stop things before we had a major forest fire. The neighbor and I quit burning about the same time - had our garbage collected by a private collector.

After we quit burning and had garbage collection - we never again saw hide nor hair of any skunks or coons. The deer, pocket gophers, chipmunks and squirrels picked up the slack. I "trapped" quite a few skunks and coons, in the day, with my 12 gauge. Coyotes loved them.

Sonny580 · Feb 6, 2018

Well,---I had major coyote problem in last years corn!! Destroyed at least 75% of the crop, BUT we still had more than we could use/give away.
I know the ants you talk about but never found any in our corn, YET!! LOL!!!---Coons/skunks/etc. didn't bother last year, but have in past years.--live traps and 12 ga. 3" magnum shells do a fair job!!

I put extra fert. on with the poo to help make up for anything lacking! thanks; sonny580

Sonny580 · Feb 19, 2018

some of my garden equipment;
Potato digger

couple pix. of the first creepers

AC 917-H plowing

This don't scratch the surface of all the "stuff" I have/use/made or modified for garden use.

Will be starting seed flats in a week or so.--Peppers should probably be started about now, due to the long germination time needed! thanks; sonny580

TnAndy · Feb 20, 2018

Sonny,

Is the potato digger under construction ? Seems like the digging part is missing. More photos please !

Sonny580 · Feb 20, 2018

The pix are from the day I finished it!--several years ago!
rod cleaning section.

The nose/business end!

another side view

I wanted to put in a drag chain, but haven't got around to it yet.--To use, just crank the nose down to whatever depth you need then drive forward until bed is full, then go back and start raking the spuds out of the loose dirt.--beats digging them out of the hard ground!---I have videos on U-Tube of the garden equipment, 50 or so in all! thanks; sonny580

Sonny580 · Feb 20, 2018

This is a video of the first year that we used it. My wife took all these videos of the equipment for me. thanks; sonny580

Sonny580 · Mar 13, 2018

Today we re-planted some of the winter-killed strawberry patch.--A very cold job! thanks; sonny580

oldballs · Mar 13, 2018

I just plowed/tilled my three year old strawberry bed under. It needed a total overhaul anyway. The white grubs have taken about 35% of the plants. The Beneficial Nematode treatments didn't seem to do much good that I could tell. And, "Yes", it was cold working outside this morning.