A week ago, I planted 8 plants of cherry tomatoes, and 4 Burpee Early Girls. I have a V-10 Diesel tractor coming to elp me care for this farm.
Raised Beds
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Plant another seven juicing veggies. and tend them well with your V-10 tractor and you can make your own V-8
I appreciate your twisted wit, Bob. Ya know, them big Diesels often have yo have a smaller engine to start the big engine with. This one has such a pony engine - it's a V-1.
Jack,
I'll get back with you after I am able to visualize a V-1 engine. Would this be one of them conundrums???
I'll get back with you after I am able to visualize a V-1 engine. Would this be one of them conundrums???
Nice looking joint on that bed corner. My garden has lawn along one side, and blacktop driveway on the other. Tomatoes are a foot high now, but the dill isn't sprouting yet. Needs water, I suppose. Now, I gotta go buy an irrigation truck. I suppose a 2 1/2 ton rig oughta do?
Nothing's too good for those 12 tomato plants.
Nothing's too good for those 12 tomato plants.
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That chair you posted a picture of , interesting thought.
Folks make the beds out of wood and they end up eventually rotting. Why not make the beds out of the fake wood ( plastic ) boards they use in decking ????
I'm familiar with above ground seedbeds from when I was growing up.......Dad made a couple beds to root cuttings in from the bushes we had in the field .
The beds had a lower wood framing but the top was corrugated asbestos sheets ( 4 x 8 ) overlapping the top framing so none of the excess water draining would hit the wood. The sides were strips of the asbestos 1/4 inch thick and 5 inches high by about 8 feet long on the sides and about 4 feet on the ends. They were set in from the sides and ends about 1/2 inch. They were placed so they sat on the top of each raised part of the base sheet leaving a small gap with each lower portion to drain. The bed (Box ) was filled with a peat and vermiculite mix.
Over the cuttings was a single 1 inch pipe the length of the beds with mist nozzles every 2 feet. The watering system was set up on a timer.
He had a 15 acre plant nursery. Several of the shrubs we grew were from cuttings. Put the cutting in the beds , later remove them and plant them in the field , let them grow and later dig them up and transplant them where the customer wanted them.
This was back in the middle 50's and a person could get asbestos of any size and shape freely from any building supply place.
That chair you posted a picture of , interesting thought.
Folks make the beds out of wood and they end up eventually rotting. Why not make the beds out of the fake wood ( plastic ) boards they use in decking ????
I'm familiar with above ground seedbeds from when I was growing up.......Dad made a couple beds to root cuttings in from the bushes we had in the field .
The beds had a lower wood framing but the top was corrugated asbestos sheets ( 4 x 8 ) overlapping the top framing so none of the excess water draining would hit the wood. The sides were strips of the asbestos 1/4 inch thick and 5 inches high by about 8 feet long on the sides and about 4 feet on the ends. They were set in from the sides and ends about 1/2 inch. They were placed so they sat on the top of each raised part of the base sheet leaving a small gap with each lower portion to drain. The bed (Box ) was filled with a peat and vermiculite mix.
Over the cuttings was a single 1 inch pipe the length of the beds with mist nozzles every 2 feet. The watering system was set up on a timer.
He had a 15 acre plant nursery. Several of the shrubs we grew were from cuttings. Put the cutting in the beds , later remove them and plant them in the field , let them grow and later dig them up and transplant them where the customer wanted them.
This was back in the middle 50's and a person could get asbestos of any size and shape freely from any building supply place.
My watering system consists of cans and jugs, with a nail hole in the side, right at the bottom. Low tech (except for the nail holes. I bought them at the hardware.)