4 wheeler damage to Brassica?

[yoderjac]

Hawking.

To hock means to pawn.

Hock is more used in a pawning situation where Hawk is more often used to mean selling goods. I never claimed to be a grammarian. I was trying to be a bit more pejorative with my description, but if you split hairs, you might be right. I'll have to check with my English major friend. But you may be technically correct. I'm not sure

I think you need to get out hunting! Our archery season started Oct 2nd. It sure is a stress releiver.

 

[yoderjac]

And the figure of speech “To pawn off on” means what again?


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[Telemark]

And the figure of speech “To pawn off on” means what again?


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To get rid of. That is a verb form of the name of a chess piece. It has nothing to do with borrowing money.

 

[roymunson]

If you have it, go ahead. But leave a placebo/test group untouched. See what it does.

Don't need a 10 paragraph article on here to tell you that. Go get em.

 

[yoderjac]

Anyone else feel like it's deja vu ..... all over again around here...

Isn't the vernacular amazing! New words added to the dictionary every year. Other words disappearing from the language. Still others acquiring new meaning over time. Historical context lost and found again. Multi-rooted words coalescing a common meaning over time.

I just hope I don't get pulled over by the language police again any time soon. My plethora of citations will surely bankrupt me.

Back to fertilization...

The point of my previous post was simply to say, that even when we use a control group and do a comparison, we need to consider the context in terms of our objectives. Let's say treated plants (regardless of the treatment) grow much better than untreated plants. Depending on ones objective, that could but a big contributor, make no difference, or even work against the objectives.

I think experimenting with different methods, techniques, and products is great and lots of fun. We just need to be careful what conclusions we draw from the results.

 

[roymunson]

Anyone else feel like it's deja vu ..... all over again around here...

Isn't the vernacular amazing! New words added to the dictionary every year. Other words disappearing from the language. Still others acquiring new meaning over time. Historical context lost and found again. Multi-rooted words coalescing a common meaning over time.

I just hope I don't get pulled over by the language police again any time soon. My plethora of citations will surely bankrupt me.

Back to fertilization...

The point of my previous post was simply to say, that even when we use a control group and do a comparison, we need to consider the context in terms of our objectives. Let's say treated plants (regardless of the treatment) grow much better than untreated plants. Depending on ones objective, that could but a big contributor, make no difference, or even work against the objectives.

I think experimenting with different methods, techniques, and products is great and lots of fun. We just need to be careful what conclusions we draw from the results.

couldn't read it all... 350 words when 14 would do...

 

[Mortenson]

couldn't read it all... 350 words when 14 would do...

Lol.

And here I thought I had it covered by saying "sometimes what's fun is fun."

My plots kinda suck at the moment and I'm wishing I wouldve fertilized them a month ago. Even with record warmth, I've found August brassicas don't grow bulbs. Back to July for me.

 

[yoderjac]

couldn't read it all... 350 words when 14 would do...

Some won't read. Not target audience. Old-style twitter perhaps...

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Even with record warmth, I've found August brassicas don't grow bulbs. Back to July for me.

I’m having this same issue..

 

[yoderjac]

I’m having this same issue..

Much depends on your climate. I would never plant in July here. I find bulb size is largely related to the amount of growing season left after planting. In my area, mid to late august seems to work pretty well. 5+ lb PTT bulbs are not uncommon, but the average size is only a few pounds.

 

[roymunson]

Lol.

And here I thought I had it covered by saying "sometimes what's fun is fun."

My plots kinda suck at the moment and I'm wishing I wouldve fertilized them a month ago. Even with record warmth, I've found August brassicas don't grow bulbs. Back to July for me.

Bummer on the not growing bulbs.

I planted first week of august in 5B (NE Ohio) and got some timely rains. I hit them with urea in mid September and I had golf ball and bigger bulbs on my PTT, Jackpots, and Barkants before the season started September 25th.

We got more rain, and I'll be out there today, I wanna see what they're doing now.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

My turnips and radishes were a failure this year. We had a forecast for a decent rainfall, I planted, and no measurable rain for about 6 weeks. The ground was slightly wet when I planted, I think we got about .4" before I planted. Some sprouted and got to about an inch tall, then they all died. I then planted a mix of winter wheat, oats, and winter rye, oats in my plots to have something growing. Right now about all that is in my plots is a little clover, and a weedy mix of mixed grain. It hasnt been a very good draw as of yet, but the neighbor has standing corn yet.

 

[NATHAN]

My turnips and radishes were a failure this year. We had a forecast for a decent rainfall, I planted, and no measurable rain for about 6 weeks. The ground was slightly wet when I planted, I think we got about .4" before I planted. Some sprouted and got to about an inch tall, then they all died. I then planted a mix of winter wheat, oats, and winter rye, oats in my plots to have something growing. Right now about all that is in my plots is a little clover, and a weedy mix of mixed grain. It hasnt been a very good draw as of yet, but the neighbor has standing corn yet.

I wasted a lot of seed this year too. Forecasts can go wrong for sure.

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

My brassica plots look as good as they ever have this year. I planted my stand alone brassica plot in early August into weedy clover. Right now my PTT bulbs are a little bigger than baseballs. The radish tubers are a bit smaller than I would have thought but we will still get some growth out of them and there will be food left over come spring green up any way so...

I planted some PTT into my beets and beans earlier and they are bigger than softballs right now. Most of the pods have been eaten but the beets are close to football sized.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Much depends on your climate. I would never plant in July here. I find bulb size is largely related to the amount of growing season left after planting. In my area, mid to late august seems to work pretty well. 5+ lb PTT bulbs are not uncommon, but the average size is only a few pounds.

By "amount of growing season left" are you talking primarily daylight duration? I'm on track to have first frost a full month later than average on the border of zones 3b and 4a. I'm not sure it's even dropped below 40 this fall yet. We've had highs of high 60s-80s and lows in the mid 40s-mid 50s for the last couple weeks and it is hardly projected to get any cooler in the 10 day! It's wild but still no bulbs.

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

I'm just going to guess you planted a variety of brassica that doesn't produce bulbs?

 

[Wind Gypsy]

I'm just going to guess you planted a variety of brassica that doesn't produce bulbs?

This is the stock picture of the turnips and radishes included in the blend from their website so I hope that isn't the case.

 

[WTNUT]

Step on them, if they push down and dont snap, you are good, if they snap, crunch, well then youre not so good.

I love this response so much I have to comment in addition to just liking. It is amazing what some common sense and a little time spent thinking will produce. I don’t want to bash the poster who asked the question, but I am always telling my daughter to think some more before she asks how to do something. At times you can figure it out on your own with some thought and common sense.


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[yoderjac]

By "amount of growing season left" are you talking primarily daylight duration? I'm on track to have first frost a full month later than average on the border of zones 3b and 4a. I'm not sure it's even dropped below 40 this fall yet. We've had highs of high 60s-80s and lows in the mid 40s-mid 50s for the last couple weeks and it is hardly projected to get any cooler in the 10 day! It's wild but still no bulbs.

No, not just daylight. I mean growing season in general. This includes daylight and other things like air and soil temps, adequate moisture, and such. I'm in 7A and for me, planting in mid-Aug works well for bulb size of both GHR and PTT.