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Silent, I was thinking the same thing :D
My parents used a live trap to catch and remove unwelcome diners from their garden. I used to love to go with them and drop off the bunnies at a roadside park about 10 miles from our house. live traps for varmints Those zucchinini leaves are huge... |
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Beautiful work guys! I do however reserve the right to resent your superior growing season down there. |
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It's funny, my sister made a comment about me holding my belly right after she took the picture... |
I thought it just looked like you were laughing really hard.
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What a lovely farmin' couple! You look proud and happy!
I think I am suffering from pea frame envy. We have ours on a fence but want to build some sort of vertical supports for the zuchini and beans. And we best get crackin! So far we've enjoyed one rhubarb pie and two rhubarb crisps, some good baby greens salads with the teeniest little radish thinners. We've had a cool wet spring, so the greens are great. Its also been a bumper year for morels. I've been fascinated to meet two separate individuals that are huge, morel hunters. Like fishing, they have their particular hot spots...I never knew it was even going on! |
You can see the sophisticated wire-tie-wrap method of construction that we used!
I took those pictures two days ago and the bean stalks have now reached the top of that frame. They are so fast! I tried to train them not to climb any higher, but they won't have any of it. |
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In case anyone else is too shy to say it, I think I should just point out that Jacquelita is hot.
We'll be needing to see a pic of your sister for comparative purposes, though. We wouldn't want to fix Bruce up without due process... :lol: |
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I'm trying parsnips this year. |
Yes, Jacquelita is hot.
I just spent hours weeding our garden. Our plants are not nearly as nice as yours look. I think the weeds are starving them. I think the overabundance of weeds is probably due to either a. we want to go organic with this stuff, so we haven't used any chemicals. and or b. We used cow manure for fertilizer (because of our desire to go organic) and cows eat things that have seeds, therefore there might have been seeds of weeds in the manure. Ugh. We also have a huge upcropping of Jerusalem artichokes from the last year and I don't know how to get rid of some of them without digging with a spade. Back to it tomorrow, I guess. |
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Sorry XOXO my Sista is seriously married (20 years). But if things suddenly go south, you'll be the first to know :D |
Thank you. :heartpump
You know, at my age "going south" is considered a good thing, as in FLA for the winter. |
Resist the roundup. For weeds, or to make a new bed, you can spade the dirt, turn the greens under, put down 3-4 sheet layer of newspaper, cover with soil, compost, then chips to hold it down and make it not butt ugly. you can plant right through the paper. the paper, greens will feed the bed. Some tough weeds you just haveto dig out, then mulch well to keep them pullable and learn to live with in moderation. But organic is worth it. If you have some funky diseased plants, leaves, pick, remove, and dont compost.
I'm battling prairie grass. massive roots. I'll post a pic when I get it together. This weekend is a big farm work session. and foot! Zone 4 represent! We best get crackin. |
I posted the last beanstalk picture four days ago. Since that time it has grown 15" above the top of the frame! We had a soaking storm followed by 90 degree temps.
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UT my beans have grown over a 5 ft. concrete reinforcing wire that I have on metal post and on way back down. If rain lets up will post a few photos of my garden, but Arlene is in the Gulf and may drop by with more rain.
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