Garden 2024

[Mad Trapper]

Going to take the tractor and till up about 300 feet of potato beds.
I think I will make raise rows with the row hipper to plant the spuds in.
The back garden soil is looser and a bit sandy compared with the garden up near the house.
According to the interwebs deer don’t care for potatoes, they eat the hell out of everything thing else I plant back there so maybe this will work out for me.
I have never tried potatoes before. If you have any tips, I’m listening.
BoF

For years the deer never touched my potatoes, now they eat those AND my tomatoes.

[Slippy]

Going to take the tractor and till up about 300 feet of potato beds.
I think I will make raise rows with the row hipper to plant the spuds in.
The back garden soil is looser and a bit sandy compared with the garden up near the house.
According to the interwebs deer don’t care for potatoes, they eat the hell out of everything thing else I plant back there so maybe this will work out for me.
I have never tried potatoes before. If you have any tips, I’m listening.
BoF

We only do sweet potatoes in raised beds. The trick is not to crowd the beds and the sweet potatoes grow more uniformed and larger.

[Broncosfan]

Getting the seed starter shelf ready to go today. Downsized it a bit. Every year I raise too many plants that go to waste. I can only plant so many. Still will have enough to can everything we want to make. Peppers will be started this week. Just letting the starter soil warm up a bit. It snowed some from early to mid morning. Delayed my plans to burn a brush pile. Will take care of that tomorrow becasue we can't burn during the daytime from March through May.

[MoreAmmoOK]

Last year I planted potatoes in a row just inside the garden fence. Deer ate the branches that grew through the fence, right up to the fence. Grasshoppers ate the rest, no potatoes last year.

[Mad Trapper]

Last year I planted potatoes in a row just inside the garden fence. Deer ate the branches that grew through the fence, right up to the fence. Grasshoppers ate the rest, no potatoes last year.

No grasshoppers here, but Colorado potato beetles can be bad.

[MoreAmmoOK]

Grasshoppers have been really thick here the last couple years. Kill a hundred and a couple hundred take their place.

[TJC44]

Everything is still frozen & snow covered here. Expecting +5F tonight. Planning on adding better garden soil & fertilizer this year. Maybe I'll take the time to tend to it this year, what a concept!

Everyone here knows I have a Black thumb, right?

[Box of frogs]

I have never tried potatoes before. If you have any tips, I’m listening.
BoF

Went into town yesterday to the auto parts store. Decided to drop in at the feed and seed since it’s on the same road.
Good thing I did. I was going to just see what they had for seed potatoes and most of his stock was already bought up.
I got 8# of Red Pontiacs and 8# of Kennebecs. I’m still a couple of weeks away from time to plant. Will till rows today.

[Slippy]

A random picture of one of our daily harvests from a few years back...

[Mad Trapper]

I got to the feed store yesterday. They had most of their bulk vegetable seed in stock, $2/ 1/2 oz. Thats 14 GRAMS, not milligrams you get in the seed packets these days. I think I can do a row a mile long, with 14 grams of carrot seeds.........

Also priced some fertilizer, urea is still reasonable ~$22/50 lbs, dried blood shot up again $90/50 lbs!!!! FJB!!!

They also get trout every spring for stocking ponds, 6-8" brookies browns or rainbows, $72/25.