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demon78 · « **Reply #125 on:** October 31, 2011, 04:01:11 AM »

Looks good RM, next for us is a little green house too I think that next year we'll be more on top of the tomatoes (copper sulphate spray and thin leaves at bottom) Have any of you guys used a tomato crusher before makes paste like a champ?
Bill the demon.

78 k550 · « **Reply #126 on:** October 31, 2011, 06:03:52 PM »

my garden did ok but need to fertilize more.

Paul

Grnrngr · « **Reply #127 on:** November 01, 2011, 11:01:41 PM »

Blueberries and raspberries are doing better every year, and we've pushed the Blackberries way back. Peppers did real well, but all the cucurbits got powdery mildew early, cucumbers were going good until it hit, not nearly as many this yr as last, very few squash, a melon each on 2 of 5 plants. Growing season started late, never really got warm, bush and pole beans did OK but the snap peas mildewed too, tomatoes didn't do much, okra never got more than it's second or third set of leaves..but...we get shaded early in the afternoon and we'll be choppin them trees when the leaves come off. I'm thinking about setting up a poly tent for the spring too. Can't wait on the rain to quit around here...

Rocking-M · « **Reply #128 on:** November 03, 2011, 03:37:08 PM »

Quote from: demon72 on October 31, 2011, 04:01:11 AM

Looks good RM, next for us is a little green house too I think that next year we'll be more on top of the tomatoes (copper sulphate spray and thin leaves at bottom) Have any of you guys used a tomato crusher before makes paste like a champ?
Bill the demon.

Quote from: demon72 on October 31, 2011, 04:01:11 AM

Looks good RM, next for us is a little green house too I think that next year we'll be more on top of the tomatoes (copper sulphate spray and thin leaves at bottom) Have any of you guys used a tomato crusher before makes paste like a champ?
Bill the demon.

My wife's not used a crusher. She generally cans it and then cooks it up like she wants to use it when she opens the can.
I did all the cultivating and picking, she's the one what puts it up. I have to be very careful with my suggestions in that area.

demon78 · « **Reply #129 on:** November 04, 2011, 04:22:01 AM »

Ahh yes there are certain political realities to canning. The thing we found is, if you use a food mill you have to clear the skins and seeds from it fairly constantly with a Tomato crusher it spits the seeds and skins out one side and the pulp/paste out the other and this after boiling the tomatoes for 20 minutes, so other than cleaning them, 20 minutes and you're making paste.
I think that it's an Italian invention.
Bill the demon.

the technological J · « **Reply #130 on:** December 05, 2011, 07:47:09 AM »

anybody do any indoor gardening? i planted some garlic just for the heck of it and was gonna set up a grow light for some other little stuff.... i was thinking just to get a start on the spring

78 k550 · « **Reply #131 on:** December 06, 2011, 11:40:23 AM »

I just have a 2 bulb 4ft. shop light for the starters. I also have a 600 HPS. I still need to set it up. The shop light is ok but getting a t5 bulb setup. Prob a 4 bulb 4ft setup.
You can grow peppers all year also.
I know have cloned some rose bushes started for the ground next spring.
I have Basil, sage and other herbs started.
I'm really looking into some LED lights.

Paul

demon78 · « **Reply #132 on:** December 07, 2011, 09:50:26 AM »

I have a buddy who's an electrician and lives off the grid, he uses a lot of Led lights and they are initially expensive but use a lot less electricity for the amount of light they give and they last along time as an aside because he was an electrician and well known, the local cop's had him tag along when they busted a local grow op and of course they found it because of the massive amount of electricity it all of a sudden it started to use, any how he's wandering around with one of the cops looking at the massive lights and other equipment and he kind of looks at the cop and go's "look at those dummy's if only they kept up with technology they could have used energy saving fans and Led's and no one would have known and they would have gotten a superior product too" at which point the cop did a double take and said how do you know? Doug said I live off the grid so I keep up with these things, I don't think he was asked back on another bust. So moral is always keep up with latest trends in science and technology for better living.
Bill the demon.

Frostyboy · « **Reply #133 on:** December 09, 2011, 05:01:02 AM »

We're not much into growing stuff you can eat, but prefer just to have a nice outlook. The kookaburras seem to like it.

Frostyboy · « **Reply #134 on:** December 09, 2011, 05:03:19 AM »

more....

78 k550 · « **Reply #135 on:** December 09, 2011, 06:20:23 AM »

very nice Frosty.

Paul

luder · « **Reply #136 on:** December 09, 2011, 06:46:41 AM »

Great job Frosty, I would bet you are busy takeing care of all that......looks great

faux fiddy · « **Reply #137 on:** December 13, 2011, 01:38:55 AM »

Quote from: Frostyboy on December 09, 2011, 05:01:02 AM

The kookaburras seem to like it.

Dang.. if I could only attract birds with my agri-attempts. If the drought didn't kill it it was the bug green caterpillars that eat the sh8 up like it was going to be obsolite.

Seems like the ornitholological friends woud love to eat them before the plant is all stems and no leaf, but the multilegs must taste bad. A couple days of not looking and you have is tomato plant skeletons.

Maybe next year I will reap what I sew. I like your birds, wish my litte bums would help out more.

demon78 · « **Reply #138 on:** December 13, 2011, 04:14:07 AM »

TF we don't seem to have that problem we got flocks of little birds that dance in and out of the rows of veggys munching on all sorts of bugs we even had a squadron of wild turkeys go through eating bugs (only problem with them when they nail a bug, the tomato some times gets damaged from the force of the impact) all I can suggest would be increase your "small bird" feeders.
Bill the demon.

TwoBigCats · « **Reply #139 on:** December 14, 2011, 07:45:17 PM »

we're located in the silicon valley and have a bit of dirt that we grow veggies in. we also have 27 fruit trees that produce several thousand pounds of fruit. we donate much of the fruit to the homeless, but we do keep enough to make 50+ cases of jams, jellies and liquers for our family and friends.

i am also a hobbyist beekeeper and can heartily recommend it as a very interesting and tasty hobby

78 k550 · « **Reply #140 on:** December 14, 2011, 10:14:18 PM »

Quote from: TwoBigCats on December 14, 2011, 07:45:17 PM

we're located in the silicon valley and have a bit of dirt that we grow veggies in. we also have 27 fruit trees that produce several thousand pounds of fruit. we donate much of the fruit to the homeless, but we do keep enough to make 50+ cases of jams, jellies and liquers for our family and friends.

Yummy.

Paul

i am also a hobbyist beekeeper and can heartily recommend it as a very interesting and tasty hobby

the technological J · « **Reply #141 on:** December 17, 2011, 08:04:27 AM »

Quote from: TwoBigCats on December 14, 2011, 07:45:17 PM

we're located in the silicon valley and have a bit of dirt that we grow veggies in. we also have 27 fruit trees that produce several thousand pounds of fruit. we donate much of the fruit to the homeless, but we do keep enough to make 50+ cases of jams, jellies and liquers for our family and friends.

i am also a hobbyist beekeeper and can heartily recommend it as a very interesting and tasty hobby

what kind of liquors do you make?

78 k550 · « **Reply #142 on:** January 18, 2012, 11:42:36 AM »

Getting that time of year.

I'm building a cold frame this week.

Paul

faux fiddy · « **Reply #143 on:** January 18, 2012, 11:51:42 PM »

Quote from: 78 k550 on January 18, 2012, 11:42:36 AM

Getting that time of year.

I'm building a cold frame this week.

Paul

I bought kale seed, already have leftover broccholi seed and snow peas. Was thinking about doing starts real soon.

cookindaddy · « **Reply #144 on:** January 19, 2012, 02:08:52 PM »

Must be nice to be able to start early! If I start my tomatos indoors much before the beginning to the middle of March, they get too leggy by May 24 when I can put them out.

demon78 · « **Reply #145 on:** January 20, 2012, 05:20:20 AM »

Hey Cookindaddy you got to remember they live in the "Banana Belt" not in in a decent snow bound waste land like you and I do, have you got your seed purchased yet? Oh and by the way we've found a new Tomato site Called "Tatiana's TOMATObase" really interesting, out of the west coast, Google it and be awestruck.
Bill the demon.

cookindaddy · « **Reply #146 on:** January 20, 2012, 06:37:37 AM »

Yah Bill, I know. And I bet they are riding their old Hondas past the banana trees!

Wow! on Tatiana Tomato Lady. Still looking over the 3905 tomato varieties!

I didn't order any seed this year. I have most of last year's seed from http://www.terraedibles.ca/. I did not do a very good job starting the seed and I am going to apply what I learned last year in a month or so when I get started. I'd like to save seed from year to year of the plants I like and have success with, ones that grow well here.

Grnrngr · « **Reply #147 on:** January 20, 2012, 10:13:30 AM »

Quote from: cookindaddy on January 19, 2012, 02:08:52 PM

Must be nice to be able to start early! If I start my tomatos indoors much before the beginning to the middle of March, they get too leggy by May 24 when I can put them out.

Do you have your lights rigged to keep them within a few inches of the plants?

cookindaddy · « **Reply #148 on:** January 20, 2012, 01:03:34 PM »

No lights. I had the trays in a south facing window. I guess I should have lights huh?

Grnrngr · « **Reply #149 on:** January 20, 2012, 04:07:40 PM »

You'll get nicer, less leggy plants earlier if you do. Some folks I know have them on chains and raise a link at a time, others have lines and pulleys. Cold frames are a great option for when they're big enough to go out but the weather isn't ready yet....and easy to make too. Great way to recycle old single pane windows.

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