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Post by ET on Jun 24, 2015 16:15:17 GMT -5
I’m really pleased with the garden’s progression. But the garden definitely needs water soon.  The cucumber training with the trellis is working well also by using a double hoop clip. These plants are growing 2-3” a day. There are also flowers now appearing.  The Zucchini already has tubes growing and the Butternut Squash is now beginning to flower.  Keeping the tomato plants trimmed to one main stalk makes them look a little anemic but most have already 8-12 flowers so far. As they are still growing upward I am curious how this will turn out with size and quantity. Yes some already have green tomatoes forming.  Ed |
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Post by al53 on Jun 27, 2015 8:26:54 GMT -5
Looks great Ed....the squash and cukes are doing great....the tomatoes are doing well also....dont let the tomatoes get real dry or u get blossom drop...hope you get rain soon...wish I could share the rain we been getting with you...we got 4 inches the other day..we had a tornado watch also with hail..but the hail was small and not damaging and only lasted a few minutes..but no tornado thank god..I already got hit by one 3 years ago ...
you will be busy this fall putting every thing up ...
Al
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Post by ET on Jun 27, 2015 10:36:13 GMT -5
Al53 Well we are finally getting some rain and won’t need to impose on you for some, chuckle. I truly hope you don’t get any more extreme weather events such as hail or tornado. Had to stop in the garden today to get some peas and the first thing that caught my eye was the Zucchini plant. It’s having a flowering conniption. Got to be that horse manure, chuckle because it was not this reactive last year.  Not worried too much about cleanup in the fall as I have a gardening partner and friends to help. What I’m starting to get anxious about is tasting my first ripe garden tomato on fresh bread or toast. Even salads will taste much better with fresh garden components. Good thing there’s not a lot of calories in salads because I have a tendency to dig right in when everything is fresh. Ed |
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Post by rambler on Jun 27, 2015 12:16:31 GMT -5
Looking very good Ed. I'm waiting with baited anticipation on my first ripe 'mater and slappin' a slice of it on a BLT sandwich (with miracle whip like it should be)  |
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Post by ET on Jun 28, 2015 7:24:31 GMT -5
Looking very good Ed. I'm waiting with baited anticipation on my first ripe 'mater and slappin' a slice of it on a BLT sandwich (with miracle whip like it should be) I agree, if it’s not Miracle Whip then it’s not mayonnaise.  Ed |
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Post by ET on Jun 28, 2015 8:00:32 GMT -5
In some of my garden pictures you see a good size building that we often call the “Barnage’. It’s a garage that’s 32 x 60feet my friend wanted built. It was quite the job that I was also involved with.  You are only seeing about 2/3rd of the actual inside capacity. A lot of memories were built here with projects such as rebuilding his 16’ boat, building a take-down duck blind that held 5-people, countless welding repairs on trailers and constructing specialty items for fishing and hunting. There are a lot of good memories made here. I know that one day when the place is sold I will have to say good bye to this location and accept closure to an era in my life. For now I will enjoy what time there is still left. Ed |
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Post by rambler on Jun 28, 2015 8:56:40 GMT -5
Nothing like a man cave, and that is a serious one!
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Post by ET on Jun 29, 2015 7:22:55 GMT -5
Yeah there were some serious on-goings in this man cave.
Even butchering wild game.
Here we did our first deer learning how to debone it.
Another time I got a phone call to come over and help clean some geese that were shot the evening before with another group of hunters. When I got there I was greeted with 24-geese laying on the floor. Needless to say that took a while.
One of the most memorable job was repairing the boat trailer after it had an entanglement with a pylon at a service station. My friend’s brother was driving at the time returning from moose hunting and being over tired he misjudged the angle of approach. When I first saw the damage I had my doubts of neatly repairing the extension for getting the boat aligned on the trailer but after some thought gave it a go as a challenge.
Using some tricks of the trade I learned from others I cut out the bad section and carefully welded in a new piece. Surprisingly the orientation turned out perfect and once the weld area was sanded and painted you couldn’t tell there was previous damage. Needless to say everyone was happy with the results.
These are just a few memories from the man cave.
Ed
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