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« Last Edit: January 13, 2008, 11:34:49 am by HIPOCKETS »
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jml
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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2008, 01:01:35 pm » |
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Do you have a job? If your not hunting your fishing, If your not fishing your makin sausage, and now this garden, where do you find the time for all this.
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« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2008, 01:24:05 pm » |
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Well Jason its like this. I work about 3 or four months and save my money . Then I take off for about 1-1/2 years and hunt & fish and pittle in my garden. Kinda simi-retired you could say.I enjoy every minute of it.
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Mike
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« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2008, 03:54:35 pm » |
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Now that's the way to live right there.
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« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2008, 10:48:01 pm » |
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Man I think you might have things figured out. I am all about eating food out of the garden and sausage I made myself. Now I have never done either one but I sure rade my grandads garden when I can and every now and then we will all pitch in and buther a calf to have non "store bought" meat on top of deer and hog meat. I know I sure feel alot better after eating that food then I do when I eat what my ole lady brings home from the store.
Matt
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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2008, 10:21:18 am » |
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Lavon, garden looks great. I wondered if you existed off of sausage and catfish fillets, now I see you do eat your veggies.
A few years ago Mandi and I were discussing having a small garden to provide us with Salsa making components. Cilantro, Tomatoes, peppers, onions, etc. The original "Salsa" garden started in an old molasses tub/ cattle lick. It was nice.
Then we made a larger garden ~10' x 20', the next season, we made it larger ~20x30. The next season, we went larger yet, ~20x60. It was not much fun anymore, turned into WORK. Last year we had no garden. I just built an equipment shed/barn over the raised garden area.
Fast forward to last week. I made the comment to Mandi that it sure was nice having fresh vegetables in the back yard. We could put some meat on the grill from an animal that we killed, and eat veggies that we grew. The next day she came home with a bag full of seeds, and she is back in garden mode. I just hope we keep the future gardens to a nice manageable size, where it is enjoyable, yet productive.
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2008, 10:44:16 am » |
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2008, 10:44:36 am » |
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nice looking garden lavon. i love having fresh vegetables, although a garden usually takes up more time than i really have to spare. nothing compares to fresh off the vine though!
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« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2008, 01:50:07 pm » |
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Mr Hipockets,
I have my garden in one of those mini greenhouses with a grow light right now so that I'll have nice little plants to put out when the weather gets warmer. Do you think it's too yucky outside for me to go ahead and sow some lettuce and cabbage out there? I know they like the cold, I just don't know if they would take off right now.
Here's what I have in the works - Better Boy Hybrid Tomatoes, Cilantro, 5 levels of hot peppers, green beans (bush), zuchini, and sugar snap peas. All those are indoors right now waiting to germinate and develop under the light. I'd love to go ahead and plant the cabbage and lettuce just to have something outside. Any problem with that?
Thanks! M
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« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2008, 02:13:17 pm » |
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Go ahead and try,, I've never planted a winter garden this late but I'm pretty sure in will go. blk seeded simpson lettuce,,radishes red & white.cabbage,, mustard greens, turnipp greens,, onions of all kinds.callarflower,,and garlic. 12/24/12 is the best fertilizer I have found. next time on you green beans try kentucky wanders poll beans, they make & eat really well and take up less space. just drive 3 iron T post about 6 ft apart, then plant your green beans in the row and tie a string about a foot from the ground from pole to pole. come up a foot and do it again and again and again.you need 4 horz. strings 1 ft apart then tie some verticle strings about 1 ft apart. when your finished it will look like a net with 12 in mesh kinda. then you can do even more and plant your cucombers on it. saves space and you dont have stuff running everywhere. good luck, keep me posted how it grows.
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« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2008, 11:58:13 am » |
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Will do. Thanks.
You know, I could go get those kentucky beans. I'd just have to get another mini greenhouse to start them.. Do you just pick them and cook them, or do you have to un shell them? I have never done beans before. I'm not a huge fan of vegetables so my garden list has pretty much been limited to salsa ingredients, cucumbers, squash, cauliflower, lettuce and cabbage.
M
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« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2008, 12:13:48 pm » |
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the green beans you just plant them in the row in the spring, no need to start them early in green house.plants in the spring are so cheep i dont pre-plant in a green house . you pick your green beans and cook them whole or snap them and boil them with new potatoes and some fat back that you save & cure & smoke from your hogs. when ya'll catch a bunch of hogs and wont to cure the shoulders & hams and fatback and hamhocks AND BEACON give me a call and i'll walk you through it,, ITS REALLY EASY AND YOU CAN DO IT ON A LARGE BBQ PIT.979-233-1755
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