Broke Ground For New Garden With Middlebuster!

[Travis_R]

Ok, got the garden planted with red potatoes (and a very few white potatoes), and G-90 Sweet Corn for now. Got (2) 80 ft. rows of the potatoes and (6) 80 ft. rows of corn. The garden has a total of 14 rows, but it isn't time to plant the other crops just yet therefore the remaining 6 rows haven't been planted and covered yet, they're only busted open.

We got LOTS of rain yesterday and today. You will see in the pics why I like to plant on a row. You can tell which rows have been planted and covered, and which ones haven't. The corn and potatoes should be germinating well right now!:laughing:

 

[jinman]

Nice Travis! I'd say your potatoes and corn got a nice watering-in. I took down a section of deer netting on my garden and tilled and hilled it up last week. We'll put the netting back up soon and finish planting about mid-month. I have soaker hoses on order because we haven't had much rain lately and sometimes it can be very dry here. The soakers keep stuff happy.

BTW: My garden is in a natural basin made of red clay. I excavated it to level and hauled in sand and topsoil. It seems to grow stuff pretty well, but I need to get a soil test to see if there is something I need to add. I've been thinking of getting a couple of loads of compost hauled in to give it a kick too.

 

[Carykong]

JImman,

Just curious, why didn't you use our old iron Jubilee for your installing your garden rows?

 

[jinman]

JImman,

Just curious, why didn't you use our old iron Jubilee for your installing your garden rows?

My old Jubilee is essentially dead. It has enough wrong with it that I would never fix it. The engine needs overhaul, the transmission is toast, the clutch is shot, and the transmission case is cracked where the hydraulic lines attach. When my pole barn shop is completed, I will disassemble it and offer the parts on eBay. That's the most return on my money. I don't think I could sell that tractor for $500 the way it is, but the sheetmetal and tires/wheels will probably bring at least that much. That tractor has paid me back many times what I paid for it ($2200) plus the additional $1000 I put on it in parts/tires.

 

[Travis_R]

Hey jinman, that's a nice set-up you have! Thanks for the pics!

 

[Travis_R]

Well the corn and potatoes are Finally coming up! Some of the corn is an inch or 2 high, and some hasn't even came up yet. Some of the potato plants are just barely coming up out of the ground to where you can just see them.

Pictures soon...

 

[bp fick]

You boys are looking good. Our East Texas farm is going very well, but up here, all I can do is spread manure on top of the last of the dirty snow and start some plants indoors, in trays, waiting for warmer weather.

We got to 60F yesterday, so its coming, but we don't get too excited until May.

Keep up the good work!!

 

[Travis_R]

... Haven't had time to take pictures and post them yet, but the garden is coming along pretty well in my opinion (for a first timer). Hopefully I'll get to the pics in a couple days.

 

[Travis_R]

Ok, I finally got some pictures taken. First 2 pics are the Red Potatoes and G-90 Sweet Corn. The final 2 pics are of the last row of corn, the t-post sprinkler (in action...LOL), and a row of Red Kidney Beans that are just starting to come up...

 

[Travis_R]

1st pic is Straight Eight Cucumber in each of the wire rings. If you look very close, you will see a few plants just barely starting to pop out of the ground. 2nd pic is the Hales Best Cantaloupe and Charleston Gray Watermelon. I have 7 hills of cantaloupe and 17 hills of watermelon. 3rd pic is (2) of (4) green eggplants. Final pic is the whole garden (almost). You can see the Bell Pepper plants on the end of the last row, along with some more wire rings with Straight Eight Cucumber, Burpless Cucumber, and Straight Neck Yellow Squash planted in them. As of yesterday, I seen 1 squash plant starting to come up...