Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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Rabbit manure is the best manure in my opinion. It has the high nitrogen with out the burning ammonia. I used to raise the rabbits really for the manure. Now we just use our chicken, compost, chicken straw & Alfalfa, & some cow manure from a local dairy. I get rabbit when I can. Margaret says, “no more raising rabbits”. If this corona business keeps up, we might have to get back to the basics.
calldoctoday Are you doing the large turnips or the small ones? Over in Leanon and Turkey they pickle the small turnips. I had them on the best Donairs ever made. Then again Turkey is the berth place of donairs. They make good toppings on falafals as well.
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calldoctoday Are you doing the large turnips or the small ones? Over in Leanon and Turkey they pickle the small turnips. I had them on the best Donairs ever made. Then again Turkey is the berth place of donairs. They make good toppings on falafals as well.
Joseph 0 Whew, that was a long time ago. Although, I would like to do some again these days. Our turnips I would say were the small to medium ones. Definitely not the big ones like some of those big giant turnips & rutabagas I have seen. That sounds real interesting & tasty too. I like that stuff.
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Pro tip, invest in a couple drill augers to vastly reduce the time and effort it takes to plant a garden. You’ll be thanking me once you do.
Tex_77 Too funny. I just did this very thing this past weekend and was gonna post it. Had all my plants in and done in 1/2 hr. A lot easier on the back too!
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Pro tip, invest in a couple drill augers to vastly reduce the time and effort it takes to plant a garden. You’ll be thanking me once you do.
Tex_77 I do recommend those hand augers as well, but I really like this for softening up the ground.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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Tex_77 I do recommend those hand augers as well, but I really like this for softening up the ground.
GWG8541 Nice, if I had the space, I’d def. have one. I went the no till route this year, so I will see how that works out.
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GWG8541 Nice, if I had the space, I’d def. have one. I went the no till route this year, so I will see how that works out.
Tex_77 I bought the tractor to manage other things on the property, and did not buy the tiller until about a year later, but man does the tiller work great. What took me about 2 hours with a walk behind tiller, literally takes about 10 minutes. Not to mention saving the body aches.I
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GWG8541 Nice, if I had the space, I’d def. have one. I went the no till route this year, so I will see how that works out.
Tex_77 let me know how the no till goes. I’ve only done it on food plots for deer.
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Tex_77 I bought the tractor to manage other things on the property, and did not buy the tiller until about a year later, but man does the tiller work great. What took me about 2 hours with a walk behind tiller, literally takes about 10 minutes. Not to mention saving the body aches.I
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Tex_77 I do recommend those hand augers as well, but I really like this for softening up the ground.
GWG8541 Yes, they are real nice. When we were in Texas & had more property (everything is bigger in Texas) I had an Italian 5 or 6 footer that I hooked up to my JD. I cannot remember the brand other than it was from Italy & Orange (uh oh)It was a beast & I mean a real heavy duty monster. We don’t have the space nor the money here, but I will tell you, if you have got it, they are worth every penny. Made a heck of a garden that fed us pretty much 100%, the neighbors (there were only a few), friends & what was left, Margaret would take to the Chinese restaurant & the fruit stand as they knew we had good stuff, even if it was not certified, it was just as good or better. I am just forking it now & the garden is only about 30 x 40 now too. I need the exercise.
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GWG8541 Yes, they are real nice. When we were in Texas & had more property (everything is bigger in Texas) I had an Italian 5 or 6 footer that I hooked up to my JD. I cannot remember the brand other than it was from Italy & Orange (uh oh)It was a beast & I mean a real heavy duty monster. We don’t have the space nor the money here, but I will tell you, if you have got it, they are worth every penny. Made a heck of a garden that fed us pretty much 100%, the neighbors (there were only a few), friends & what was left, Margaret would take to the Chinese restaurant & the fruit stand as they knew we had good stuff, even if it was not certified, it was just as good or better. I am just forking it now & the garden is only about 30 x 40 now too. I need the exercise.
calldoctoday 30 x 40 can still yield a lot of produce and work. I am familiar with the Italian tiller you are talking about. If I remember right a friend had one and it could be off set behind the tractor, which was a real nice option.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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calldoctoday 30 x 40 can still yield a lot of produce and work. I am familiar with the Italian tiller you are talking about. If I remember right a friend had one and it could be off set behind the tractor, which was a real nice option.
GWG8541 Yes, it still keeps us going. Yes, that was one heck of a beast. I even used it to till up the little league baseball field every year before grading it. Then I would use it to till the road & grade it. That was one tough son of a gun. I feel like I lost my left arm when I sold all that stuff including a Bob Cat 863 with a nice post hole digger & trencher, amongst other stuff. Oh well, life goes on. I miss it though some days, but don’t know how I had the energy to keep up with all that, & more, either.
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calldoctoday 30 x 40 can still yield a lot of produce and work. I am familiar with the Italian tiller you are talking about. If I remember right a friend had one and it could be off set behind the tractor, which was a real nice option.
GWG8541 I like my tiller also. One nice thing is for making new lawn, going over the ground a few times, it levels it out so well. I built a 5 foot cultipaker out of a piece of plastic culvert. After tilling, throw the seed down, roll it and watch it grow
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Pro tip, invest in a couple drill augers to vastly reduce the time and effort it takes to plant a garden. You’ll be thanking me once you do.
Tex_77 I use that auger to plant gladiolus every year. They work good but think I need to talk the Mrs. about getting the tractor. A man always needs more toys!
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Tex_77 I use that auger to plant gladiolus every year. They work good but think I need to talk the Mrs. about getting the tractor. A man always needs more toys!
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Tex_77 I use that auger to plant gladiolus every year. They work good but think I need to talk the Mrs. about getting the tractor. A man always needs more toys!
wdaly the tractor and tiller is a good thing.
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Anyone ever use a Chapin garden push seeder? They say it will plant up to 20 different seeds with the 6 seed plates it comes with. I watched a couple videos on them and it looks good. They are around $100. If they work as good as they do in the video, it would really cut my planting time down next spring
hey vegetarians, my food poops on your food!
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Anyone ever use a Chapin garden push seeder? They say it will plant up to 20 different seeds with the 6 seed plates it comes with. I watched a couple videos on them and it looks good. They are around $100. If they work as good as they do in the video, it would really cut my planting time down next spring
kyle I plant a pretty good sized garden. It’s 130ft x 75ft and since I got this planter I don’t see how I made it without it. They are a huge time saver. I do have to thin the plants a little more with this but way worth it. It controls seed depth so much better than I could with a hoe. I was reluctant at price so me and a neighbor split one. He quit gardening so I gladly bought his half. IMO it’s worth every penny. Good luck with your garden no matter what you decide.
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kyle I plant a pretty good sized garden. It’s 130ft x 75ft and since I got this planter I don’t see how I made it without it. They are a huge time saver. I do have to thin the plants a little more with this but way worth it. It controls seed depth so much better than I could with a hoe. I was reluctant at price so me and a neighbor split one. He quit gardening so I gladly bought his half. IMO it’s worth every penny. Good luck with your garden no matter what you decide.
cdavis thanks. I was going to split the cost with my neighbor also. Just seemed to good to be true. Things usually work better when you watch a youtube video then when you actually get one home
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Anyone ever use a Chapin garden push seeder? They say it will plant up to 20 different seeds with the 6 seed plates it comes with. I watched a couple videos on them and it looks good. They are around $100. If they work as good as they do in the video, it would really cut my planting time down next spring
kyle just picked 1/4 of my carrots
. I used to hate planting them because the seeds are so small but now it’s a breeze. 
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