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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 18, 2012 11:49:05 GMT -5
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Post by 12540dumont on May 18, 2012 13:33:11 GMT -5
Ox, Here we have to buy rocks in gabion baskets. About $100 for rocks like yours. Why not load them in a truck and bring them to me. Steev can help unload them. I have visions of a wee stone house for storing veges. I do the best I can to get the transplants in the field, because I start 95% of everything in trays. However, if the field ain't ready, well that sort of puts a damper on things. Ox, I just can't figure out how you hoe. Those are some mighty pretty plants waiting to go in. I have a few things as well. Ha ha, every time I look there's another tray. I think they're breeding! I need to plant peppers and eggplant this weekend and a few other 5 dozen things! But tiller man will be home. With the clutch out in the BCS, it's been a hard week. I'm digging field bind weed while waiting for the boss to show up. I hate field bind weed. I have serious cow and rock envy. Attachments:
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Post by DarJones on May 18, 2012 15:58:20 GMT -5
Cow envy only for me. I have plenty of rocks, not like ox, but plenty for me.
DarJones
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 18, 2012 19:10:22 GMT -5
Ox on Rocks on Fox in Socks Sir?
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Post by steev on May 19, 2012 22:57:22 GMT -5
Holly, I have enough trouble getting my own rocks off; you're on your own!
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 20, 2012 4:19:05 GMT -5
Holly, just because its you, I've decided that you can have all the rocks in my field in the top 24 inches of soil. It'll be a sacrifice but that's just how much I like you. Unfortunately due to time constraints you'll have to come get them yourself, you know how it is.
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Post by olddog on May 20, 2012 9:43:30 GMT -5
Oxbow, Just realized those rocks you have to dig out of the soil may be an asset, in that they might keep the temperatures warmer than without them, soaking up the sun, heat, and then holding it over night, so maybe you are lucky to have those, even though it is so hard to cultivate with them all around in the ground. especially in your colder climate. Though you probably already figured that out. Here in central California we do have few, if any rocks in the soil, so it is easy to till, but if the nights are cold, then there is nothing to help out the plants except row covers, or water or wind.
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Post by 12540dumont on May 20, 2012 14:09:44 GMT -5
Ox, you are so good to me. If I had time to come get them, I would. Help you weed too. Alas, it's eggplant day. They must go in. I'm just in for lunch. So hot, I feel like I'm in a skillet. 80 already, no sniggering Dar. It'll climb to 95 later. Once when I was in Minnesota they were tearing down one of those old buildings made with native rock...quartzite I think...I'm not a geologist. So, I checked and they wanted a penny a brick. I called home and said I wanted to hire a trucker to hall them home. Well they scoffed at me and said that was ridiculous. Bricks are going for about $.60 to $1.00 a brick now. It was some sort of town hall type building, so I could have built a brick **** house and barn
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Post by DarJones on May 20, 2012 14:20:03 GMT -5
80 degrees! I'm freezing to death just thinking about it. How do you stand that cold weather? I think I'll go out to the greenhouse and bask in 130 degrees so I can quit shivering.
DarJones
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Post by baby daddy on May 21, 2012 19:16:25 GMT -5
I think if you removed all the rocks you would be sunken bed gardening. Reminds me of a place in Arkansas we vacationed at a few times.
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Post by steev on May 21, 2012 21:19:04 GMT -5
I pile any rocks bigger than my palm: snake nests. I don't make a point of telling my neighbors about this, ophidiophobia being so common. They are disturbed enough already that I don't feel it's my duty to eradicate every weed.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Sept 23, 2012 20:00:52 GMT -5
Just a couple pics from today's market, I think my chubby baldness adds needed gravitas to the display. And the other side.
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Post by steev on Sept 23, 2012 20:41:07 GMT -5
Salad turnips? Is that Red Hidabeni? With greens, four bits a bunch is such a deal. I take it your locals aren't quite into red neeps.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 23, 2012 21:18:51 GMT -5
Really nice. I wish I had gotten my beets planted...
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Post by oxbowfarm on Sept 23, 2012 23:37:34 GMT -5
Salad turnips? Is that Red Hidabeni? With greens, four bits a bunch is such a deal. I take it your locals aren't quite into red neeps. They're getting there, I actually charge em 20 bits.
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