GARDENING 2025!

[Snowman]

Blackberry Plants...!!!

 

[RJ2019]

My blooming fruit trees got covered in snow today. I'm REALLY hoping it didn't mess up my fig grafts.

 

[Peanut]

Yesterday I changed the wheel base/track of the tractor. It had been set up for working hay. We used the old ford tractor for the garden. The old tractor needs a lot of work, new clutch, new hydraulic pump etc $$$. So, this week I had to convert the Massey for garden work. The wheels had to be wider, further apart.

Today I got the cultivators set up for tilling the garden on 36” rows. It needed 24 new bolts, some paint and the distance between the plows set.

I still have to adjust the planters… save that for another day. Won’t need them for a couple more weeks.

Bottom pick, old… when I get every implement and the tractor properly adjusted… planting and plowing is a breeze.

 

[sonya123]

the Jerusalem artichokes are in the ground I put some in a raised bed box and some on the edge of the garden , something should work...

Also put some asparagus roots I got at walmart ( I don't usually buy planting stuff there but wanted to try it) , we'll see if anything grows out of it

Husband tilled some rows for me to plant potatoes tomorrow . All we have is a crappy little hand tiller so him and son just do a little section at a time. We really do need better equipment but oh well....when we first started our friends down the road tilled our gardens for us. They ended up moving and no longer farming. Then we bought a tiller at rural kind made in China crap that couldn't be put together....it got returned, huge hassle. I found one on FB marketplace but the people that had it were not going to prove it still worked ( looked 100 years old...) so there went that one. We ended up buying a hand tiller for a few hundred $
At least we have a plow!

Peanut, you need to come here with your cultivator and till our garden LOL

 

[sonya123]

My blooming fruit trees got covered in snow today. I'm REALLY hoping it didn't mess up my fig grafts.

oh no, I hate that when that happens! Happens to our very large apricot trees EVERY year. They bloom, then it freezes. I think we have had a total of 5 apricots in the 9 years we have lived here...

 

[Peanut]

Peanut, you need to come here with your cultivator and till our garden LOL

The cultivators still need work. This coming fall I need to take them to a shop down the road. The guy can sandblast and paint them for me. They are made from US steel in the 60’s. Can’t buy equipment like this anymore so it’s worth my time to refurbish all the old farm equipment I have. It’ll last anther 60yrs for the price of paint and a few new bolts. I spent $100 on new bolts this week, only installed 24. But I have replacements for every bolt on it.

 

[sonya123]

The cultivators still need work. This coming fall I need to take them to a shop down the road. The guy can sandblast and paint them for me. They are made from US steel in the 60’s. Can’t buy equipment like this anymore so it’s worth my time to refurbish all the old farm equipment I have. It’ll last anther 60yrs for the price of paint and a few new bolts. I spent $100 on new bolts this week, only installed 24. But I have replacements for every bolt on it.

our very old 1980s JD tractor still works, I just wished now in hindsight it had come with a loader and a tiller attachment

 

[LadyLocust]

I planted 75 bare root strawberry plants last spring. They all lived and grew. This year, zero plants have shown. What are the odds of 75 not making it?
I just replanted 10 and have 50 more ordered. It is the normal bed where I always have berries so I know they grow there. They usually produce quite well.

Something ate them???