OT Might be problems with our food chain this summer or fall, so thinking about planting garden

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Doesn't Oregon have a 5 year supply?

Not after this month with everyone at home. It's probably pretty depleted already.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

what year?

you ever play for Oz?

Yes sir. My brother was on his lone state championship football team.

I played a couple of years but hated football. Loved basketball.

You guess the year if you know Ridgefield well enough. My brother is 7 years younger if that helps.

 

[MickZagger]

Yes sir. My brother was on his lone state championship football team.

I played a couple of years but hated football. Loved basketball.

You guess the year if you know Ridgefield well enough. My brother is 7 years younger if that helps.

Ridgefield won it 95’. So you graduated in 88?

I have friends who played for oz. they hated the guy. I was around him one time when I played baseball at River. He was old and about to retire then

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Ridgefield won it 95’. So you graduated in 88?

I have friends who played for oz. they hated the guy. I was around him one time when I played baseball at River. He was old and about to retire then

I graduated when I was 17. My brother was a freshman or sophomore when they won..can't remember but he was varsity from freshman year I think. He played baseball and went to Eastern Washington on a baseball scholarship. He still played baseball in a league somewhere recently.

If you know him he'll tell you I'm really the asshole I am here only worse.

I hated Oz too. I could have been good at football but all we did was run run run run run. Run the wing T offense. So all we did in practice was RUN.

It was soooo boring. I wanted to hit people. If Joe Montana played for Oz you'd ask me who the fuck is Joe Montana.

 

[Orion Bailey]

convenient timing.

I cleaned out half the garden box yesterday. fixin to clear out the other half today. Then till it with my little tiller and then plant this weekend!!!!





Wow... just realized how badly I need to paint the Barn in the background... whoa...!

 

[Lanny]

Seeing a few stories during the last couple of days that because of the virus farmers aren't finding the labor they need to plant crops. That includes both the illegals who come here to work on our farms and the ones who apply for visas to work the farms.

This also appears to be a growing problem in many of the other countries we import fruit and vegetables from.

We might have food shortages.

I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to grow some food just in case.

Not much of a gardener. I think I planted pumpkins once as a kid.

A couple of questions. Thinking about knocking together some raised garden beds. I know the ones for potatoes should be a couple of feet tall but what about corn? Is a 2 foot tall garden bed deep enough or should I go 3 feet?

Can I mix different things together in the same garden bed or each type vegetable have their own?

I've planted pretty much everything in my lifetime. Never planted okra or peanuts, though.
Right now, we don't have any room to plant much of anything other than the trees and bushes that we now have.

 

[Lanny]

convenient timing.

I cleaned out half the garden box yesterday. fixin to clear out the other half. Then till it will my little tiller and then plant this weekend!!!!


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Wow... just realized how badly I need to paint the Barn in the background... whoa...!

I had a mantiss for years. When I needed something larger, I would rent it or borrow my parent's mammoth tiller. They had like a half acre, or maybe more, garden. Mine was maybe somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 square feet not counting my apple tree or two large grape vines. I love to plant stuff.

 

[CupWizier]

My food garden is coming in great. Good eats a coming.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

convenient timing.

I cleaned out half the garden box yesterday. fixin to clear out the other half today. Then till it with my little tiller and then plant this weekend!!!!


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Wow... just realized how badly I need to paint the Barn in the background... whoa...!

I'll help you paint, but you have to stay 10 feet away.

 

[Lanny]

Oh Tomato family is also quite easy to grow.
Can be placed in the ground, or in pots.
For cherry tomatos I place them in hanging baskets just outside of my front door.
For roman tomatos I've placed them in buckets, the ground, tires, raised beds, pots. The best production I got out of them was when I placed them in tires.

Now this is all home gardening, not farm land gardening.

Just know that if you place things in tires they will require more supervision. Especially if you don't bury said tire.

Tomatoes are America's no. 1 favorite home garden vegetable. Also, my favorite.
Wanna hear something shitty? Sure you do, everybody does. They're supposed to be off my diet. It's got something to do wiht potassium which can cause my heart to stop with no proceeding symptoms. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit. Sometimes I can't stand it any longer and eat one anyway because I laugh at danger.

 

[Lanny]

Corn takes a lot of space for very little food so unless you have a big garden not your best bet. There is a book Carrots Love Tomatoes you can order, some vegetables grow well together while others need to be separate. Easy crops include lettuce, kale, carrots, radishes, green beans, chard. You can start most of those now.

Squash, summer and winter, is very productive. I don't plant zucchini because people will beg you to take it off their hands.

Potatoes are easy to grow.

Potatoes are easy to grow if you have the right soil. In my garden, the only spot I had left for them had a lot of clay, hence the soil was too dense for them.
When I was a tot we had a vacant field next to our house. My mom planted her potato peelings there and in a year or two we had an entire field of volunteers. All we had to do was go out in the field in random areas and start digging pulling in more than enough russets to feed us for dinner.
My favorite summer squash is the yellow crook neck. We also had plenty of acorn squash.

 

[Lanny]

Corn takes a lot of space for very little food so unless you have a big garden not your best bet. There is a book Carrots Love Tomatoes you can order, some vegetables grow well together while others need to be separate. Easy crops include lettuce, kale, carrots, radishes, green beans, chard. You can start most of those now.

Squash, summer and winter, is very productive. I don't plant zucchini because people will beg you to take it off their hands.

Potatoes are easy to grow.

I've never grown kale. Why? Because I hate the stuff.
I recall that potatoes and tomatoes should not be grown close together.
Carrots and radishes are fun. Carrots are fun because I love their tops for looks and when you dig them up each one is a wonderful surprise. Radishes need to be washed and eaten soon after being dug up. Yum
I also had fun when I planted a mint plant. Don't know why I planted it but it multiplied and I soon learned uses for it.
Chives were fun because we could go out and pick some for a baked potato.
Same goes for scallions and lettuce.
I enjoyed dill because of it's use in pickling.
I never grew any fennel but my mother grew lots of it which I always wanted to try but never did.

 

[Lanny]

Thanks!

I love fresh corn on the cob. Maybe I'll just plant a few in case corn gets diverted to livestock.

I've grown corn about 20 years ago that was so good that I still recall it. It was better than any corn I've gotten from the store EVER. But yeah, it does take a little more ground than the average vegetable.

 

[Lanny]

Yes sir. My brother was on his lone state championship football team.

I played a couple of years but hated football. Loved basketball.

You guess the year if you know Ridgefield well enough. My brother is 7 years younger if that helps.

When you attended Ridgefield, did you ever know a Chris (Robby) Roberts? He's probably quite a bit older than you but his son was a star football player there.

 

[Lanny]

Makes great hillbilly toilet paper

Leaves work better. Corn cobs have a strange but interesting after taste if you want to nibble on them later.

 

[Orion Bailey]

I had a mantiss for years. When I needed something larger, I would rent it or borrow my parent's mammoth tiller. They had like a half acre, or maybe more, garden. Mine was maybe somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 square feet not counting my apple tree or two large grape vines. I love to plant stuff.

Mine is a battery operated tiller. lol.

 

[crandc]

I've never grown kale. Why? Because I hate the stuff.
I recall that potatoes and tomatoes should not be grown close together.
Carrots and radishes are fun. Carrots are fun because I love their tops for looks and when you dig them up each one is a wonderful surprise. Radishes need to be washed and eaten soon after being dug up. Yum
I also had fun when I planted a mint plant. Don't know why I planted it but it multiplied and I soon learned uses for it.
Chives were fun because we could go out and pick some for a baked potato.
Same goes for scallions and lettuce.
I enjoyed dill because of it's use in pickling.
I never grew any fennel but my mother grew lots of it which I always wanted to try but never did.

Correct on potatoes and tomatoes. Also don't plant onion family near peas. Radishes taste better when planted among lettuce. Beets and onions like each other. Fennel doesn't play well with others and needs to be in a separate area. Beans and corn like each other. So do carrots and radish or carrots and scallions.

 

[andalusian]

My food garden is coming in great. Good eats a coming.

Your photoshop skills are shit, but I still enjoyed your efforts.

 

[CupWizier]

Your photoshop skills are shit, but I still enjoyed your efforts.

Yes, my photoshop skills are shit, but that wasn't done by me, lol.

 

[Lanny]

Your photoshop skills are shit, but I still enjoyed your efforts.

Still, it's pretty damn humorous.

 

[wizenheimer]

Wow... just realized how badly I need to paint the Barn in the background... whoa...!

if you use a 1 inch brush it will occupy more time

I've planted pretty much everything in my lifetime. .

ever planted your face or the seeds of dissent?

 

[wizenheimer]

Mine is a battery operated tiller. lol.

is that for a 40 volt battery attachment?

 

[yankeesince59]

is that for a 40 volt battery attachment?

I think they may have a battery powered attachment...but I have the 2 stroke version...works pretty well but it will wear you out rather quickly.

I use it mainly for spot tilling/weeding and also have a commercial grade tractor pto driven tiller.

 

[wizenheimer]

I think they may have a battery powered attachment...but I have the 2 stroke version...works pretty well but it will wear you out rather quickly.

I use it mainly for spot tilling/weeding and also have a commercial grade tractor pto driven tiller.

yeah, I have an old mantis tiller and it works just fine. Have to clean the carburetor every once in a while, but that's common for 2 -stroke engines that take winters off

I was curious about the battery powered tillers though, but it looks like quite an investment. I already have a 18V Ryobi yard & garden fleet: weed eater, hedge trimmer, leaf blower, along with several batteries. They work great as long as you keep the batteries stored inside over the winter so they don't repeatedly freeze.

I also have a Kubota 12.5 HP diesel tractor for our 'orchard'...about 3 acres. Flail mower and tiller for the 3-point hitch. Since we went to a raised bed garden 15 years ago I haven't hooked up the tiller. Just use the Mantis

 

[yankeesince59]

yeah, I have an old mantis tiller and it works just fine. Have to clean the carburetor every once in a while, but that's common for 2 -stroke engines that take winters off

I was curious about the battery powered tillers though, but it looks like quite an investment. I already have a 18V Ryobi yard & garden fleet: weed eater, hedge trimmer, leaf blower, along with several batteries. They work great as long as you keep the batteries stored inside over the winter so they don't repeatedly freeze.

I also have a Kubota 12.5 HP diesel tractor for our 'orchard'...about 3 acres. Flail mower and tiller for the 3-point hitch. Since we went to a raised bed garden 15 years ago I haven't hooked up the tiller. Just use the Mantis

Yeah, I have the same Ryobi 18 volt setup..."expandit ?"...I too started with a Kubota...L3000...but found that after awhile I needed a tractor with a little more "balls" as well as more weight...traded the L300 for an MX5100 about 2-3 months ago...GREAT all-around tractor.

 

[Orion Bailey]

if you use a 1 inch brush it will occupy more time



ever planted your face or the seeds of dissent?

I see your plan. Make him paint longer and keep him off S2 more. I'm onto you!

 

[Orion Bailey]

is that for a 40 volt battery attachment?

I think they may have a battery powered attachment...but I have the 2 stroke version...works pretty well but it will wear you out rather quickly.

I use it mainly for spot tilling/weeding and also have a commercial grade tractor pto driven tiller.

That is not the right image for the one I have , but close enough. Mine is the 40V cordless. I can till the whole garden in one charge. I have a whole set, with 4 batteries and chargers. I can go all day doing anything I want. I even have a chainsaw attachment.

 

[Hoopguru]

Oregon 40Volt Power Tools are superb. I have the chain saw, pole trimmer, hedge Trimmer, blower, and weed Wacker.
They have just introduced the cultivator onto the 40 volt offerings.
You can go separate units or a power head with all attachments.

PreviewPreview1:53Oregon Cordless CU600 Cultivator - Available in Europe

 

[yankeesince59]

Oregon 40Volt Power Tools are superb. I have the chain saw, pole trimmer, hedge Trimmer, blower, and weed Wacker.
They have just introduced the cultivator onto the 40 volt offerings.
You can go separate units or a power head with all attachments.

PreviewPreview1:53Oregon Cordless CU600 Cultivator - Available in Europe

40 volts must be badass...I have the same attachments and the 18 volt head and it works surprisingly well.

 

[Orion Bailey]

40 volts must be badass...I have the same attachments and the 18 volt head and it works surprisingly well.

Had that. Once you go 40V, you will never go back.