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Post by steev on Jul 18, 2012 13:39:07 GMT -5
Gopher snakes are excellent. They do a very good "rattlesnake" imitation, but they're all bluff. I've only seen one on the farm the last two years; I think the rodent population has been so high, that the snakes just spend minimal time on the hunt.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 18, 2012 14:20:01 GMT -5
Do you sell by the pound or bag? Around here, we have oppressive laws regarding the use of scales, so rather than comply we sell at the farmer's market by each, or by the bag, or by the bundle. If we weigh things out so that all the bags look the same, we do that at home, and then never mention at market that the bag contains a pound of beans. I like putting things in bundles and charging $1 per bundle. |
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Post by edwin on Jul 18, 2012 18:06:40 GMT -5
My experiment with solarizing was a bust. It took out the annual weed seeds, but the morning glory and Johnson's grass came right back up. Horsetails come right backup as well. |
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Post by edwin on Jul 18, 2012 18:10:13 GMT -5
Do you sell by the pound or bag? If we weigh things out so that all the bags look the same, we do that at home, and then never mention at market that the bag contains a pound of beans. We have pretty strict laws on weights and measures as well. We carefully sold our spinach in 310g bags, but did not actually list the weight on the package. |
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 18, 2012 21:51:30 GMT -5
No one at our market sells by weight either. For bagged things I do weigh at home so I can try to have them even.
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Post by steev on Jul 18, 2012 22:42:35 GMT -5
That Red Bush VIper is certainly a gorgeous creature. The Copperhead is a pit viper, but no rattles, right?
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 19, 2012 22:22:51 GMT -5
Leo tells me that I'm not allowed to play with badgers or snakes as they are both protected. Here's some of the carrots coming out of the trial. Joseph, no sign of CMS. I'm loving this trial. Marketgartner. I love these. 3 varieties were complete chewed. Look left, see the yummy teeth marks. I'm thinking those 3 missing ones might taste great? I love GRIN! Hey Castanea, how's your carrots coming along? Boy, I have a lot of reports to write! Just for this year. For next year I'm thinking I'll expand my carrots to drying and juicing carrots, if I can get the ding dang gophers under control. Attachments:
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Post by steev on Jul 29, 2012 23:29:45 GMT -5
You SHOULD play with badgers and snakes so they know they are protected and appreciated and won't be harmed; this is not to say that you should mess with them. Even the bluebelly lizards around my pump-house have clearly learned that I am no threat and their tribe increases.
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Post by steev on Jul 29, 2012 23:43:09 GMT -5
Wood-N-Stake, it sounds like your copperheads are much like our rattlers, in that the kids are more dangerous than the adults, in some ways. Rattlers are poisonous from hatching, but with maturation, they learn that there's no point in wasting protein-costly venom on anything they can't swallow whole, so they can bite a human without injecting venom, which could otherwise leave them unloaded when useable food presents itself.
I'm curious what NC county you're in, having had much kith and kin in western NC, mostly Burke and Iredell counties.
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Post by s2man on Aug 1, 2012 8:14:43 GMT -5
I plan to double the size of the garden, next year. Will plant more staples, plant more OP, and do more seed saving.
Have already ordered more garlic varieties and contacted suppliers about ordering top-setting leeks, flour corn and winter squash. Will add more bean varieties once I figure out which won't cross-pollinate.
Peas are out. I have not been able to grow a good crop, or any crop, in Missouri. It just goes from cold to hot here, with very little spring weather.
I do well with carrots, here. Though, I am not growing on a market-garden scale, so weeding is easy. I usually do a 4x16' bed of carrots, broadcast and thinned to 3-4" apart. I mulch with ground leaves or rough compost.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 1, 2012 8:55:31 GMT -5
Peas are out. I have not been able to grow a good crop, or any crop, in Missouri. It just goes from cold to hot here, with very little spring weather. Peas are a cool weather crop... For best results, get them in the ground within a couple days of snow-cover melting... For me, that means I gotta till the soil and prepare the seed bed in the fall so that I can plant peas before the end of March. In Missouri I'd expect that you aughta have peas in the ground by about the end of February give or take a couple weeks for your microclimate. |
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Post by bunkie on Aug 1, 2012 9:10:35 GMT -5
as for peas, we have two varieties that do well in the spring and thru the hot summer months. they are Multistar and Mayfair. have never seen varieties that produce during the heat of summer like these two...even with a lack of water.
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Post by s2man on Aug 1, 2012 10:53:56 GMT -5
Okay, okay. Peas will get one more chance.  I'll start super early with succession plantings and try bunkie's recommended varieties. Thanks. |
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Post by littleminnie on Aug 1, 2012 19:38:18 GMT -5
Any ideas for set up of growing peas in beds instead of rows? This year I out a double row down the center of the greens beds. I was hoping for more ideas. I need to grow tall peas due to gophers and I keep the plants covered for a few weeks due to deer. Then they get hard to trellis but I try! So I thought about doing a row of peas on each edge of the bed and being able to pick in the middle. I don't really want to walk on the beds though.
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Post by Drahkk on Aug 1, 2012 22:02:25 GMT -5
I use conduit and twine for a 6' tall trellis, and have grown Super Sugar Snap that way. Gets every bit of 6' tall before the heat kills them. I love munching on them while working in the garden in springtime. Not sure how to make that work with the deer though, unless you could cover the whole frame.
MB
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