Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[jvls1942]

probably like my neighbor farmer. he rents any farm that quits farming. is farming about 3ooo acres of rented land. has 3 sons and 2 grand sons doing the labor. plus 2 hired hands.
they spend a lot of time traveling the back roads to get to all the farms.
a few years back a tractor caught on fire and burned down his big pole barn. 3 big tractors and some machinery got burned up, by the next day the implement dealer had new tractors in his yard
I pulled the pea vines out and planted radishes
I want to try cooking radishes to see how I like them.
I set all three box traps,,,,again. using baby beets with the greens attached. I feel like Elmer Fudd, trying to catch that waskle .

 

[DoodlesDuckies]

probably like my neighbor farmer. he rents any farm that quits farming. is farming about 3ooo acres of rented land. has 3 sons and 2 grand sons doing the labor. plus 2 hired hands.
they spend a lot of time traveling the back roads to get to all the farms.
a few years back a tractor caught on fire and burned down his big pole barn. 3 big tractors and some machinery got burned up, by the next day the implement dealer had new tractors in his yard
I pulled the pea vines out and planted radishes
I want to try cooking radishes to see how I like them.
I set all three box traps,,,,again. using baby beets with the greens attached. I feel like Elmer Fudd, trying to catch that waskle .

I think you should put a camera up and watch him eat all your goodies. There is a woodchuck on tik tok that a person videos now and he sits in front of the camera and eats everything. It is quit comical. But I do enjoy reading your animal trap stories and how they come and go all the time. Outwit and Outplays.

We have quite a few big farms by me that just buy everything up all the time. We would never be able to afford the 11 acres behind us with them paying those prices for farm land. It has gotten ridiculous. Don't even get me started on property taxes.

 

[jvls1942]

good morning , warm and cloudy. looks like rain.
had thunder to the south of us last night. no rain here
I am watering every day.
had a touch of black leaves on one tomato.
picked a bell pepper. it was huge. bigger than a softball.
made stuffed peppers.
i think the crop to grow for sale next year will be tomatoes
sweet corn too, if you have the space.

 

[TOR]

MY AREA anyway GROW A GOOD QUALITY SWEET CORN THE CUSTOMERS COME. I am the cheapest also, but that is going to change. With tariffs on tomatoes maybe tomatoes also.

I may need hire someone to help me pick as arthtitis in knees getting worse
I went down to sell my little ford ranger truck bed half full. Started at 1130 and nonstop cars emptied at 2 pm, went home pick more.

I just wonder how the next year the economy is going to change. If the tariffs have any effect on people buying extra like sweet corn. People which do not have much extra expendable income will go without.
Might be doing a farmers market in couple weeks.

I use agtalk for information and been watching the forum for many months now. I knew farming was subsidized, I am really surprised by how much. The bigger farmers from what I read are the ones which really gain from the subsidies. ( thats not agtalk other readings).

 

[jvls1942]

If someone would just undersell the market on produce, he could make a nice profit. no need to gauge.
had blt's from the tomatoes and lettuce. also had stuffed peppers,.
warm morning after thunderstorms, yesterday.
we got 3" of rain. needed the moisture.
pulled the pea vines and planted radishes. they are not coming up yet. only 3 days, though.
i have a huge pile of rotted wood chips. think i need to make a sifter . then i can use the fines for seed starter.
thinking of selling tomato plants next year.
daughter sells all sorts of plants, does quite well.
tip: rabbit sh*t is excellent for gardens.
i bought 2o gallons . it is often advertised on fb market place. you can plant tomatoes directly into it. won't burn.

 

[Debbie292d]

We didn't plant a garden this year and just put 5 tomato plants in pots on our deck, with fresh potting soil. Trying that to see if we could have blight-free tomatoes, and nope, they STILL got blight, right on our deck. I swear it's in the air here. Fresh pots, fresh dirt, disease-resistant plants, and this year, we put cedar shavings on the topsoil to prevent rain or water splashing up.

So thought this year, we'll just go to the farmer's market and buy some corn and tomatoes to freeze. Then found out their hours, only Saturdays 8:00 to Noon. So, we missed the last one. We're going to make it to the next one!

This next spring, I'm going to try to find specifically blight-resistant seeds and plant them in the house, and maybe raise a couple inside and see how that works out.

 

[jvls1942]

i planted 5 tomatoes in buckets. i was blight free until a couple of days ago. i removed the blackened leaves. same here, new dirt. have plenty of tomatoes set on the vines.
got my oats planted , now it can rain a little
radishes are growing.

 

[jvls1942]

oats planted and no rain. not until the weekend.
will be watering all the raised beds daily.
radishes came up and are growing nicely.
strawberries have sent out runnders and the tub is full . thinking hard about how to winter that tub over. thinking of digging a hole in the woodchip pile and nestling it in there for the winter.
next year i am not planting beans or peas in raised beds. going to plant onions from seeds. maybe chives and basil and maybe some other erbs
lots of tomatoes. i can easily turn the tubs into mine green houses for starting plants.
for someone who was going to cut down to just four tomato plants, i seem to be out of control.

 

[DoodlesDuckies]

Sounds you have a nice hobby going on. Something you enjoy. That is key! Critters come back at all? (giggle)

My daughter is coming home this weekend, she lives/works in LaCrosse. We plan to go to the farmers market in Wausau and putz around the area. Hopefully it isn't a total wash out. I also have the meal worms stocked up- my daughter tends to over feed the ducks to try to get them to "cuddle" with her. She can usually catch one and cuddle it against their will. I do have Terrel in the freezer yet if she really wants to cuddle with a duck. They are all molting so the yard looks like pillows blew up, they seem grumpy, very loud and look a bit rough. Sometimes I think when you live in the city for awhile you tend to forget the calm of the country. A lot of the times I find her just sitting outside enjoying the quiet and watching the ducks be ducks. Her fast paced life needs to slow down sometimes.

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the nice weather. Keep those gardens growing!!!

Renee

 

[jvls1942]

up too early. haven't had my coffee yet . can't think of anything to write.
yesterday i tackled fixing the hyd hose on the tractor power steering. miracles still do happen.
i splice the hose and the steering works again.
i am watering every day. have a bumper crop of bib lettuce. no way we can eat that much. so far it hasn't bolted. i graze while i am watering. lol
found a guy who will lend me his box blade. i want to take the humps and dips out of my driveway.
never used one before. this could be exciting.
eye appt at 9am today. dr called me in. have no idea what she is going to do. i finally went completely sightless in my right eye. maybe she has come up with a miracle >??