The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[ronott1]

Gotta watch those backs!

 

[Blooie]

Cap, did you steal your Mama Heating Pad for your own self? Good choice!!

Sean, I was glad to see that you posted too. It ain't nice to worry this bunch!!

Debby, so they came back and paid? Excellent! How'd the Elks thing go over? Happy to see a fund raiser for small town athletes - it's all so much harder for them to compete against bigger areas the way it is, so every little bit helps!

Elk are not reindeer until the harnesses go on, Diva. Then they morph. Christmas magic, doncha know!

Gonna get out in the yard and clean up, again. Doggone self-pruning willows. Can't even see the grass out there, AGAIN. If it wasn't for the cost - $1000 to $1500 PER TREE times 6 trees - and the loss of all that beautiful, cooling shade, I'd take those suckers out!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I love dogs period.

Oh I do too! And I won't turn down greeting every possible dog lol just for owning purposes idk if I'd own a small one but maybe I would, idk. I do love dogs though.

My hubby made me cages out of old metal animal(pig maybe?)panels. They work great. Good morning all!

I've heard you can buy cattle panels, cut them in half short way, and make two tomato cages and they are much stronger than cages you can buy.

Those sound helpful, maybe you could share a photo?



And I'll let you!

I will when I go outside. Haven’t had coffee yet

Id love to see them

we have hog panels, we use them for the kentucky wonder beans but i guess we could buy more but the cages we have are heavy wire, altho not quite as heavy as the hog panels, maybe next year we will try cutting the panels and using

That sounds like a good idea too

I don't remember the varieties, they are not ones I had heard of. He said there are two, the rootstock and the fruiting. He grafts EVERY plant! Apparently both are disease resistant and developed for greenhouses. I think that means commercial as opposed to a 4x8 one we might have at home.

Now he needs a variety that is hornworm resistant! He had 5 gallon buckets of those things last summer. I've been lucky so far, haven't seen any at my house.

Didn't realize tomatoes could bw grafted

too bad. would have liked to see what they were, believe it or not, not one tomato worm last year but the year before i would go out very early and pick worms and call the chickens to feed them too, rooster got where when he saw me coming he would run and wait

Oh wow, smart roo lol

Okay, here's a plan....get a wide cattle panel. Got it? Okay, put some rocks in your pockets and each of you take an end of the panel. Arch the panel and "walk"" it to the size you want - super tall or kinda longer but flatter. When it looks like the size arch you'll be happy with, drop rocks at the end corners then lay the panel down. Pound steel fence posts into the ground at those corners. Then arch the panel again against the INSIDE Of those panels and use either twisted wire or heavy metal clips to secure them.

Now plant maters on one side, and as they grow just train them to the panels. On the other side of the arch, plant your pole beans, cukes, or other vining plants. You can harvest from inside the arch and outside it. The plants don't collapse and the fruit of the vines doesn't lay on the ground. The next year, switch sides so you aren't always growing the tomatoes in the same spot year after year. You can even plant veggies that are short and like it cooler in the shade created by the veggies under the arch with a path between the rows, like beets and such, to extend the season. That's how we grow our grapes - and how we built our run for the chickens.

That sounds like a great idea!! Like I was just saying above, I've seen someone say that you can buy cattle panels, cut them in half, and make tomato cages with them that are much stronger than the ones you can buy, and it seemed like a good idea so I was going to try it but your idea seems much better. It seems like you can grow way more veggies on it which in turn somewhat saves money because only being able to make 2 cages out of a $23 panel is a little ridiculous. Although now that I think of it, it might have been the 8 foot panel, not the 16 foot one, so I might be able to make 4 cages instead? Does that sound right? I think they were square ones. But either way, I love your idea. I actually was thinking of trying the arch for cucumbers next year but did not realize tomatoes could grow on it too. Figured they had to grow straight up. Do you think pumpkins or squash can grow on it too or are they only ground plants? I think it is too late to try the arch this year but definitely going to try it next year!!

Cap, did you steal your Mama Heating Pad for your own self? Good choice!!

Sean, I was glad to see that you posted too. It ain't nice to worry this bunch!!

Debby, so they came back and paid? Excellent! How'd the Elks thing go over? Happy to see a fund raiser for small town athletes - it's all so much harder for them to compete against bigger areas the way it is, so every little bit helps!

Elk are not reindeer until the harnesses go on, Diva. Then they morph. Christmas magic, doncha know!

Gonna get out in the yard and clean up, again. Doggone self-pruning willows. Can't even see the grass out there, AGAIN. If it wasn't for the cost - $1000 to $1500 PER TREE times 6 trees - and the loss of all that beautiful, cooling shade, I'd take those suckers out!

Wow that's expensive!

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Morning all

We're starting another heat wave. It probably doesn't sound very warm to most of you, but here it's quite rare to get this hot. We've had at least 4x already this year that it's reached 30c for several days in a row. Normally we hit 30 one time in a summer.

As uncomfortable as it is, I'll take it over the -40 we had for most of last winter.

Hope everyone is staying cool & hydrated.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Update on the houses:
House in the city has been listed since April 25th. Only about 10 showings in all that time, even after a $15k price reduction. Realtor is pushing for us to reduce the price another 10k.

New (old) house is being moved on Aug 14. Engineer is taking his sweet time finishing the drawings, so building permit still hasn't been issued. That means the foundation has even been started yet, so the house will have to sit on temporary piles and we'll have to pay more $ for the movers to come back and lift it into place.
At this rate, we only have enough $ to get it moved and onto the foundation. We can't live in it until it's rewired, right now the whole place is knob and tube. So, we've spent all of this $ to have something just sit there, unused.

I should have just bought the food trailer...

 

[ronott1]

Update on the houses:
House in the city has been listed since April 25th. Only about 10 showings in all that time, even after a $15k price reduction. Realtor is pushing for us to reduce the price another 10k.

New (old) house is being moved on Aug 14. Engineer is taking his sweet time finishing the drawings, so building permit still hasn't been issued. That means the foundation has even been started yet, so the house will have to sit on temporary piles and we'll have to pay more $ for the movers to come back and lift it into place.
At this rate, we only have enough $ to get it moved and onto the foundation. We can't live in it until it's rewired, right now the whole place is knob and tube. So, we've spent all of this $ to have something just sit there, unused.

I should have just bought the food trailer...

Can't go by would- a could- a should- a! Time only moves forward and we do not always do a good job of predicting where time takes us!

I have a feeling that it will be a better place for you though

 

[CapricornFarm]

Morning all

We're starting another heat wave. It probably doesn't sound very warm to most of you, but here it's quite rare to get this hot. We've had at least 4x already this year that it's reached 30c for several days in a row. Normally we hit 30 one time in a summer.

As uncomfortable as it is, I'll take it over the -40 we had for most of last winter.

Hope everyone is staying cool & hydrated.

Sounds like the worst of both extremes.

 

[DigMyChicks]

Good morning everyone. Hurt my back somehow yesterday. Slept on a heating pad last night, feels a bit better. I am going to try to rest today but i am not very good at it.

You need to take a break once in a while, you’re body is giving you a hinthope it feels better soon!

 

[DigMyChicks]

 

[ShrekDawg]

To me it either looks like too much water/rain rot or not enough water and I think thinning out some of the bottom branches may help it get some more air