Spring activity at the Ranch

[neanderpaul]

Thanks, did you plant a garden again this year ?

I am SO late. I finally tilled Sunday. Still haven't planted.

I believe a economic collape is a real possibility.

Unfortunately I must agree.

[batstiva]

I am SO late. I finally tilled Sunday. Still haven't planted.

You and me both, Paul. Mine is so wet now, the tiller would just sink.

[freshtiva]

Havesting the first cutting of broccoli. Califlower wont be long. Eating salads with nothing but home grown produce daily and freezing the excess.

[neanderpaul]

Jealous. I finally planted Sunday. So late. Hope it doesn't bite me.

[kumalaba]

my garden looks sad compared to yours!

[neanderpaul]

You still have me beat Danny.

[kumalaba]

barely!

[1990new]

my garden looks sad compared to yours!

Lots better than mine...

I have too much sandy soil and too much shade for
vegetables to grow at my house here on James Island...just a little bit further inland and the conditions are perfect though.

[freshtiva]

my garden looks sad compared to yours!

What are you talking about ? Thats a great looking garden !! Kudos Kumalaba Your maters drawf mine. Around here the "last frost" is unpredictable so I plant them late, they like the heat anyway. I took delivery of a new frig and freezer today. Im going to try and fill the freezer before "first frost" this fall. Put out some zucchini today in my green onion bed after harvesting the last of the green onions a couple of weeks ago. Already planning a larger second garden for next year. I want some sweet corn and it takes a bigger garden than I have now.




Oh yeah I bought a "Food Saver" vacuum sealer too. Its too cool.

[freshtiva]

Are you serious ? Green maters already? Mine are just now blooming along with the potatoes. The Carolinas must have a way different climate then Missouri.

[kumalaba]

Are you serious ? Green maters already? Mine are just now blooming along with the potatoes. The Carolinas must have a way different climate then Missouri.

that is one thing i have a lot of luck with (maters) lots of cow patties mixed in!

[kumalaba]

What are you talking about ? Thats a great looking garden !! Kudos Kumalaba Your maters drawf mine. Around here the "last frost" is unpredictable so I plant them late, they like the heat anyway. I took delivery of a new frig and freezer today. Im going to try and fill the freezer before "first frost" this fall. Put out some zucchini today in my green onion bed after harvesting the last of the green onions a couple of weeks ago. Already planning a larger second garden for next year. I want some sweet corn and it takes a bigger garden than I have now.




Oh yeah I bought a "Food Saver" vacuum sealer too. Its too cool.

those are very nice, when i was about ten (42 years ago) we had a root cellar @ my grandpas, never needed no cooling devices! aah the good old days!

[freshtiva]

those are very nice, when i was about ten (42 years ago) we had a root cellar @ my grandpas, never needed no cooling devices! aah the good old days!

I hear you, my brother built a root cellar last summer by hand. Still a good thing to have ! 42 years ago I was ten too. My grandpa called his other root cellar a bomb shelter. That was when the "atom bomb " had just been tested for the first time and Russia wasnt our friend. Hopefully grandpas foresight wasnt so good.

[kumalaba]

he was thinking ahead,he was prepared!

[1990new]

Are you serious ? Green maters already? Mine are just now blooming along with the potatoes. The Carolinas must have a way different climate then Missouri.

Climate varies in the Carolinas from the ocean to the mountains.
I live on James Island about about 1 1/2 miles from the ocean in Charleston, SC and Kumalaba lives (about 250 miles NE) in unbelievably beautiful Hendersonville, NC (about 40 miles from where I lived most of my life in upstate SC). They have 4 real seasons in Hendersonville, but the leave on the trees in our yard don't fall until the new ones are coming out in the Spring.
When we first moved to the Charleston area back in 2000, we lived on the Isle Of Palms (two block from the ocean) for the first 6 years. During 2 of those years we did not have a frost at all. The ocean has a moderating effect on temperature, near it you are a little cooler in the summer and a little warmer in the winter (and like you worry about tornadoes in MO we worry about hurricanes here.).
We actually get most of our vegetables from a CSA and we have gotten ripe tomatoes in our share for the past two weeks (and sweet corn this week). Oh..and some of the most delicious sweet corn in the world is grown in the French Broad River bottoms near where Kumalaba lives.
I lived in Saint Louis for about 2 1/2 years in Omaha when I was in the Air Force, so I'm somewhat familiar with the changes from bitter cold to sweltering heat that you endure.
You do have a great looking garden there. Hope you get some sweet corn in and get that freezer filled up.