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[kwhites634]

Well still have the plants top put in the ground
2 tomatillas bought yesterday, Our garden is in tires would be three months away otherwise .. Ground is still saturated

Ever tried planting potatoes in stacked tires?
I never have, but have seen mixed reviews on it; some think it's the greatest idea since sliced bread...some don't like it at all.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I do and it works good only go three high, have heard some will make partial cutouts..
We just dig them out

 

[kwhites634]

I do and it works good only go three high, have heard some will make partial cutouts..
We just dig them out

I first saw it in Mother Earth News, many moons ago, and as I recall they only had to tear the stack down a tire at a time; no digging required. I guess it would depend on how loose the soil was.

 

[kwhites634]

I first saw it in Mother Earth News, many moons ago, and as I recall they only had to tear the stack down a tire at a time; no digging required. I guess it would depend on how loose the soil was.

You ever tried the upside down tomato plants?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Tried once years ago failed miserable

 

[Alaskan]

From TSC is 2 ozs off . Pyrex measuring cup says 6 ozs bottle says 8.

Wow

 

[Alaskan]

I first saw it in Mother Earth News, many moons ago, and as I recall they only had to tear the stack down a tire at a time; no digging required. I guess it would depend on how loose the soil was.

I never planted in tires... worried about what might leach out of them...

I just toss the cut up potatoes on the ground and hill as they grow. Works well for low effort.

 

[chickisoup]

My oldest sister, who was two years younger than me, was having trouble making her mortgage payments, so she got a reverse mortgage.

Turns out she was in the early stages of dementia and didn't realize that she still had to pay real estate taxes. End result was that she lost her home, wound up moving in with her daughter when she couldn't live alone any longer, and died a year ago of dementia complications.

We have a bit of land (65 acres) but the blessing is it's not worth much (to anyone else but us) in a part of the state where property values aren't very high and our little "cottage in the woods" isn't worth much either so even on our fixed income we can still squirrel away our tax payments every year w/o a great deal of difficulty.

 

[chickisoup]

It really isn't a big deal only bags, at Sams are drip bags for meat.They have lots of boxes at checkout.And card board is recyclable. And biodegradable .Paper bags will come back .
Don,t it feel good.We paid off in 96 and again in2002.bought the land backing up to us.But we bought what we could afford .Nothing fancy just a humble little farm house on very rocky land .I just couldn't see renting or paying a huge note.Enjoy Phil .

We pretty much did the same.

 

[orrpeople]

There are signs we may be getting to come out of quarantine sooner rather than later. The northstate Cali counties have experienced very little covid activity. Not sure they'll go so far as to open schools, but "lockdown" may come to an end by the end of the month, and businesses may reopen again.
They're even starting to postulate that the virus may have come through already (late Jan/Feb) when everyone was so stinking sick and they just marked it up to a particularly virulent H1N1. (Not saying I agree, just thinking... hmmm, we were all really sick then... What if???)