NH Homesteader- turkeys!

[Bruce]

I love the paper sack idea @CntryBoy777

Better than little peat pots that tend to dry out. And you don't need to worry about putting them in bigger pots if they grow faster than expected before you can put them out. On my list for next spring!

I didn't have a lot of beans this year, I think a deer got into the garden and ate all the leaves it could reach which means everything to about 6' high. Rabbits aren't that tall I re-planted but for some reason they didn't take. It ate the growing tips of the cucumber plants as well, guess the leaves were too spiny but those came back OK.

 

[Baymule]

This is my tomatoes early this spring. See the cardboard? It made a HUGE difference! I put up 3 and made a double row of tomato plants. I spaced the panels I think..... 18 inches apart-just enough to squeeze my butt between them so I could sit between them and get the tomatoes planted. Now the tomatoes are a couple of feet taller than the T-posts, but we have a hard freeze (24*) Thursday night that will knock 'em out.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Really Nice and really Neat 'Idea' their Bay....we learned a Lot when we lived in Fl...and using cardboard and shredded paper in that 'Sugar Sand' they call Dirt.......got my Mom to doing it and she used feed sacks to....though she only had fence 4x2 welded 5' down the single row to tie to...she did it for all her running peas and beans too...she plant running speckeled butter beans on outside fence cause the deer don't eat em.......we are always dumping leaves there too.

 

[Mini Horses]

Bay, did you run a board or strings across the CPs to support the branches as they grew? or did the branches growing thru the CPs hold them enough?

 

[Mini Horses]

Paper sacks are good but if you need to hold more weight, think small boxes, KFC tubs, etc. You can dig a hole, cut the bottom/sides of the box at planting. it will compost away.

 

[Baymule]

Bay, did you run a board or strings across the CPs to support the branches as they grew? or did the branches growing thru the CPs hold them enough?

I did nothing to them. The branches grew through the CP's and held themselves up. I don't mind some intensive preparation work to make it easy later on! After the vines die and I clean them up, I'm going to pile the sheep poop, lime and azomite in there and cover with feed sacks--and be ready for spring!

 

[NH homesteader]

Love it! Those panels truly are the best invention ever!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

We have super weeds here...

They will find any crack,, any hole, any weakness to crawl through. Spiny pigweed is the worst culprit, but the Bermuda grass runs a close second. I'm so tired of weeds....

But, yes on the cattle panels. They have a multitude of uses that the original inventor prolly never thought of!

 

[NH homesteader]

Alright folks... Here's the drama in my town these days. We have a five town school district. One town outnumbers the rest, that town is also much wealthier than the rest of us. So they can out vote us quite easily. Due to the school operating budget and the 22 million dollar renovation to our high school all our taxes went up. The rich town had the smallest increase. The town next to us, the increase in the school portion of their taxes was more money than the operating budget for their entire town!

Big doings, lots of meetings between Selectmen and the school board. Not a lot of results. Not a lot of happy people. First meeting last night... More to come.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Gives a new meaning to 'Trickle Down Economy' sounds like to me........and this will be the reaction to the 'Tax Bill' when it is all said and done....