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SD51555
5 year old buck +
I built that and planted it in June of 2023. I got potted plants from fleet farm. Amazingly cheap. 32 plants was like $25 and I had maybe $150 in lumber.
That's some great asparagus growth. I typically plant my asparagus on a random grassy fenceline or opening and then walk away. It takes those asparagus 3-4 years to get the size of the plants you planted last year. I just assumed asparagus grow really slow, but it appears I was wrong and they can grow much faster if you eliminate the competition.
SD51555
5 year old buck +
I even forgot to lime that one. I got lucky this year with all the rain, and I had a good batch of rotted wood for that bed. The mushrooms that the wood threw off right away were massive. Serving platter sized mushroom clusters pushing up 4” of wood chip mulch. So the myco strategy is up and running and it’s brought those stems to the thickness I was hoping for. The stem clusters are really tight and crowded, so I’ll have to keep an eye on that.
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SD51555
5 year old buck +
Big weekend here. I tried a local garlic this last year and it grew great. I doubled down and tracked down even more to plant back. There is no comparison to Chinese water treatment plant garlic.
137 cloves will get planted today. The flavor, aroma, and clove size is like nothing I’ve ever seen. This is a single clove sitting on a shot glass.
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137 cloves will get planted today. The flavor, aroma, and clove size is like nothing I’ve ever seen. This is a single clove sitting on a shot glass.
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Foggy47
5 year old buck +
RAINING ? IN MINNESOTA?? GOTTA LOOK at weather maps. Man could I use a rain.
fishin coyote
5 year old buck +
I put in 64 cloves today. About half was from some stuff that originally came over on a boat from Italy in the late 40’s. Cloves are the same size as what SD posted. Hope it does well for you SD
SD51555
5 year old buck +
I got all of mine in. It took up 2/3 of my raised bed space that's producing right now. I've got another bed I've got to tear apart, rebuild the outside, and add more topsoil to it. So I've got one bed that's gotta get rebuilt, and I lost my aspragus bed as that's gotten mature and i don't have free room between the plants anymore. So I need to build another bed in the spring.
SD51555
5 year old buck +
When I dug down to plant garlic this weekend, my beds were drier than I'd like. I even mixed in rotted sawdust to the one, and it was still a tad clumpy and hard. Gonna need to start pouring the grass clippings to that to soften it up a little more.
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
A compact tractor and a loader would have you digging long hooogle trenches like a pro. Grin. Then you could buy that flail mower and you would be golden. (It's a matter of time.....until you succumb to the tractor thing....lol)
SD51555
5 year old buck +
I’ve got one project left for the remainder of fall, and that is to do my soil transplants anywhere I’ve lost a spruce two times on my lawn.
The most recent one I’ve finished was the remodel of Hoog III. I had to build a new frame around it and get it filled up. That’s done.
I came across hemp straw at the farm store and decided to get some of that to top up the blanket on my garlic beds.
I just hope rains before the wind picks up and blows $40 in mulch across the yard.
I threw the extra into the asparagus Hoog.
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The most recent one I’ve finished was the remodel of Hoog III. I had to build a new frame around it and get it filled up. That’s done.
I came across hemp straw at the farm store and decided to get some of that to top up the blanket on my garlic beds.
I just hope rains before the wind picks up and blows $40 in mulch across the yard.
I threw the extra into the asparagus Hoog.
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Looking very good - home grown garlic is awesome.
Do you have an apple tree in your cabin yard? That is a great addition to any property.
The WI youth deer season was a bust this year, so instead of bringing home venison we picked a bunch of apples from my orchard. A McIntosh apple in October grown in the northland is about as good as it gets. We picked about 15 gallons of apples, and I wish I picked more.
Do you have an apple tree in your cabin yard? That is a great addition to any property.
The WI youth deer season was a bust this year, so instead of bringing home venison we picked a bunch of apples from my orchard. A McIntosh apple in October grown in the northland is about as good as it gets. We picked about 15 gallons of apples, and I wish I picked more.
Brian662
5 year old buck +
My wife's favorite apple is a McIntosh, planted four trees for her in the yard last year. Hope for fruit in a year or two.
SD51555
5 year old buck +
Yeah, that’s a prairie magic. I didn’t care for the apple, so those will end up as bear bait from here on. Or maybe I master grafting and change it? I’ve got 3 other crabs
the yard too, a couple dolgo seedlings and some random one my brother gave me. I planted 137 cloves of music garlic. I figure I’m gonna keep 80 for me and give the rest away. I’m hoping I can get my neighbors to start growing it too so we’ve all got a stockpile of it. That shit was $20/lb to buy more to plant, but that is the cats ass for garlic all around.
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