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Posted by Rex Ridge on 07-25-2022 12:09 AM:

The last yr we had our garden the deer trashed it. They ate the tops of our peppers and tomatoes, plus everything else we had to sink their teeth into.

Posted by Driftwoodblue on 07-28-2022 01:06 PM:

I had deer eating apples off the lower limbs on my apple trees..and coyotes too. tried the soap trick, did not work too well... I got some moth balls from Walgreens and drove a stake in the ground about ever 30 feet and tied a tin can to them put about 3 moth balls in each.. sure seemed to work the last 2 years.. the Coyotes did start returning after about 3 weeks.
just refresh them when they evaporate.
just started it again this year

Posted by Rex Ridge on 07-29-2022 02:48 AM:

We've tried soap and hair before, it seems they get use to it. Have to try some new things next year. They're welcome to come in and eat now. He's planting food plots. The only things we'll be using to deter them now will be a broadhead or lead this fall.

Posted by Rex Ridge on 09-08-2022 11:30 PM:

Is everyone canning or freezing? We got a few tomatoes and some peppers. Made sandwiches with the tomatoes and sliced some of the peppers to eat raw plus chopped some up to freeze. I didn't pick them until they turned red...really sweet.

Posted by Redneck Mafia on 09-10-2022 03:39 AM:

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Originally posted by Rex Ridge
Is everyone canning or freezing? We got a few tomatoes and some peppers. Made sandwiches with the tomatoes and sliced some of the peppers to eat raw plus chopped some up to freeze. I didn't pick them until they turned red...really sweet.

We've been doing both. Ash has a ton of tomatoes in the freezer we're going to can. This has been working really well to freeze as they come ripe then can in big batches.
She had been quite a but of okra and freezing it then the cows got in her yard and ate it 😠. She froze a lot of corn for us and I've been canning sweet pickle relish with the bigger cucumbers. Dalton loves it and using a ton making tuna fish sandwiches.
I freeze sweet peppers chopped up for winter use but jalapeños I slice and can. The chili peppers get stung up on fishing line to dry and I just break off and crumble up as I need them. Herbs get bundled and hung upside down from a hanging rack in my kitchen and same thing, I just break off as needed when I'm cooking. For longer storage, if I get energetic, I will crush and put into glass jars.
We've finally been getting some rain after a long HOT, DRY summer. The fields are looking good for a second cutting of hay!

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Posted by Redneck Mafia on 09-20-2022 05:12 AM:

Posted by RC-Abby on 10-14-2022 02:27 PM:

Frost

Might be done picking tomatoes 4 this year. I had 30 degrees at 8:15 this morning. In the past 6 weeks I have picked well over 2 bushels and put out by road. This does not include the 3 to 4 bushel my family put up. Don't remember picking tomatoes this late in the fall. Planted 3 Amish Paste/Roma. WoW did they produce this year. Next year I will give each plant more room to expand. But maybe next year they won't need it.

Cow manure last fall. Epson salts and milk replacer 5 times thru the summer.

Hope your garden's were good also!

Randi

Posted by Redneck Mafia on 10-15-2022 02:32 AM:

Good advice on what you used, thanks! We are still picking alot! They are loaded down with green ones too but Ash and mom are going to pick them all this weekend and pull up the cages. Ashton and Tyler sold the farm that garden is on and have just moved to another one and this is the last weekend there. I asked mom to make me some pickled green tomatoes and some sweet tomato relish then we're going to wrap some up and put them in the basement to ripen out. I've honestly never seen as many as are on those plants! Good river bottom dirt and I hope at the new place we can grow them like that. She has countless bags in the freezer we've just been chunking up to can later. Between hunts and moving a farm no one has had time to can for a while!
Happy fall gardening y'all,
Jen

Posted by Rex Ridge on 10-23-2022 03:39 AM:

We had snow this week, the next day, Chuck mowed 3rd crop. Temps are in the high 60s, heavy dew and short days r of course hurting the drying, but it's going to be dry a few more days. The worst part about getting it made is I probably can't help at all. I stepped over Ruby yesterday while turning and that one step was so painful! First, I went to a Chiropractor, but that didn't help so I ended up in the ER last night. Nothing is broken, but I never thought there was. Got steroids, but they're not helping much. Main transportation at this point is a wheelchair. They wanted to give me a walker, but since my collar bone still hasn't healed, I didn't think I should use it.
These GOLDEN YEARS aren't all they're cracked up.to be.

Posted by RC-Abby on 10-23-2022 01:47 PM:

Oops!

Boy was I wrong. That 30 degrees in my last post only took out the volunteer cherry tomatoes. Since then I have had thin ice form in the dog buckets. Now be leave or not I need to pick rip tomatoes today.

My thoughts: These plants are staked up on 4 Ft. X 18 In. field fence cylinders. The plants are so thick and grown together that ground temp moving up thru keeps the freeze off? (very tips of some show freeze damage)

The weeds in the soybeans froze and are dead and dry. Corn that had green leaves show freeze damage. Double crop soybeans got frosted and are drying.

LOL! Mistory! Or maybe God wants me to keep giving away tomatoes? Your thoughts?

Randi

Posted by Rex Ridge on 10-25-2022 04:14 AM:

Neighbors and friends might be praying for more tomatoes 😉

Went back to the ER this AM. Woke up.at 5 AM in horrible pain. Told Chuck I couldn't take it anymore. Different Dr same story, the xrays show nothing is broken. At least, he gave me some pain meds and told me to take Ibuprofen instead of Tylenol. He thinks it's the sciatic nerve. Seeing orthopedic dr on Wed and pulmonogist tomorrow, saw an optometrist today after we left the ER and probably chiropractor on Friday depending what orthopedic dr thinks on Wednesday. I hated to go to the optometrist as much pain as I'm in, but I lost my glasses a couple of weeks ago and this is the quickest I could get in. Same as the pulmonogist, I made the appointment weeks ago.
I use to not even go for a yrly checkup...feeling like I'm really falling apart, kind of pathetic.

Posted by RC-Abby on 03-22-2023 01:42 AM:

It Is Spring!!

Just planted peas. Only had 36 seeds in the package. Was told they like cool weather. Ground had a frozen crust this morning. Raked out nice this afternoon so I planted just before dark.

Randi

Posted by Rex Ridge on 03-22-2023 02:57 AM:

I tried planting some flower seeds, but our groud is still frozen.
I started physical therapy a couple of weeks ago. I had another episode (sciatica) is what they called it last fall. This year the doctor said I had arthritis in my knee and bursitis in my hip.
Chuck wasn't very happy last fall that I couldn't walk for 2 weeks, but it paid off for him. Since it was during archery season, he couldn't hunt for over a week. I finally told him to go back on our property. By that time, I could get out of bed, just not back in. We have an electric recliner so I told him I would stay in it until he got home if I got up. He came in an hr or so later and said he hit a big one, but couldn't find it. He finally did find it, but we had highs in the 70s so.the meat wasn't good. He reported it as an 18 pt, but when they scored it they scored it as a 16pt. One pt was 7/8" long if there not an inch they don't count them. It scored 169 so it will be in the record book. We have a bunch of does coming in so no garden again this yr for us.
Hope yinz have a great garden season.

Posted by Redneck Mafia on 03-22-2023 08:16 PM:

Well...my little garden spot got dozed over and a new kennel built and the big dummy hubby had my goodness dirt hauled off!!! Ash and Tyler moved to a new farm and mom is waiting on the neighbor guy to come and work her spot up. Ashton has picked her new garden spot and is patiently awaiting it to be tilled while impatiently awaiting the arrival of their bouncing baby boy. We are all way behind lol! Good thing there isn't much we could get in the ground yet anyway!

Posted by Nathan Harder on 04-08-2023 03:10 PM:

Put new mulch down on the asparagus bed last weekend. Have two spears poking through the dirt already. Put fertilizer down on all the other beds along with calcium. Planted broccoli yesterday. Took a walk in the woods with the dogs. Found two 1.5" grey morels. That was it. Coming this week.