Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
[Re: LLtrapper]
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05/24/21 06:02 PM
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Wow, great looking garden. There's a lot to be said about being self-sufficient.
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Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
[Re: LLtrapper]
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05/24/21 06:04 PM
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Yall should have plenty to eat and won't even care how many coupons uber eats spams you with
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Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
[Re: Leftlane]
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05/24/21 06:09 PM
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Yall should have plenty to eat and won't even care how many coupons uber eats spams you with I don't care anyways because I have no idea what that even is. lol, LLL
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
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05/24/21 07:39 PM
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Nice action!! It appears that you have pretty fine soils or is that because you've worked it a lot? We tend to have heavier clayey loam soils up here. The house I grew up in Soo Foo was on a river terrace and it had such soils. I think my old man put a bale of sphagnum moss in it a year and never did much lighter over time
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
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05/24/21 10:41 PM
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Nice action!! It appears that you have pretty fine soils or is that because you've worked it a lot? We tend to have heavier clayey loam soils up here. The house I grew up in Soo Foo was on a river terrace and it had such soils. I think my old man put a bale of sphagnum moss in it a year and never did much lighter over time The soil is typical Iowa loam. It has been worked a lot already. I put on about 600 pounds of chicken manure and wood chips last fall as well as wood stove ashes and worked them in as well every year. It is a heavy soil but just worked up real well today after being pretty wet for a few weeks. I had not been able to get into it with the tiller since planting those potatoes on good Friday. LLL
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
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05/24/21 10:48 PM
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The soil is typical Iowa loam. It has been worked a lot already. I put on about 600 pounds of chicken manure and wood chips last fall as well as wood stove ashes and worked them in as well every year. It is a heavy soil but just worked up real well today after being pretty wet for a few weeks. I had not been able to get into it with the tiller since planting those potatoes on good Friday. LLL Sounds like good stuff, well loved!! Keep the photos coming over the season!
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
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05/24/21 10:58 PM
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You do any melons Larry? Duncan’s process your birds or do you do it yourself?
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Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
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05/24/21 11:12 PM
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Melons where my garden is seem to disappear even before they are ripe. I need a guard dog. I do plant cucumbers, squash and zucchini. They won’t walk off. I process the birds myself in my fur shop. You can see my scraping beam in the picture up against the wall as the scraping room doubles as a brooder/ finishing house.
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
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05/25/21 07:31 AM
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the garden looks great , that's a lot of meat chickens , I have to raise that many or I can't feed the help. My middle son helps me process them and I will say no one in our families buy chicken. Prices on meat in general is surging. I use my wet dry vac reduced down to a half inch piece of pvc and ten mil bags to pack them. They keep well until we eat them and have kept some for a year until the next batch was ready. Wow! way ahead of us. I am just getting spuds to emerge right now. Must be quite a bit drier there too as we are too wet to work soil here now. Just remember when you PLANT the chicks. plant them head up or they won't emerge! lol
Bryce We have had a lot of rain this spring. This is the first time I got in with the tiller since good friday when I planted those potatoes. I use my seed from last year so the runners are pretty long when I plant them. Those plants are 16 generations old. I did break down and bought some red Norland seed this season but the others are as organic as they get. LLL
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
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05/25/21 07:54 AM
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Awesome set up LL! Where do you get your meat birds? Hoover Hatchery here in IA. They mail them to the local post office. LLL
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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Re: Garden pictures from SW IA
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05/25/21 09:56 AM
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Cornish cross broilers that are ready in 6 weeks.They never see anything but that pen and the only time they get outis when I take them to the killing cone. LLL
Isaiah 51:6 But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.
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