Gonna move out to the country, eat a lot of peaches. . .

sandhill larry

sandhill larry

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full of purple said:
I need one of those shovels
Is that military issue?
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It's a cheap knock-off. You can pick them up in any army surplus store. I like that you can put your foot to it. Or turn it like a hoe and chop. That is what I did when I dug those trenches last week. You've got to really work it, but you can get a decent hole dug with it. But unless I am hiking a really long way, I try to take a regular shovel. I use this one when I transplant mostly.
 
sandhill larry

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full of purple said:
oh okay looks nice
Ant wait to see them in full flower
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Sorry, but the pictures of them will soon stop. In another week or so they will be gone. I won't see them again until they are on a rolling tray. The BIL likes how I do the sprouts, so I do his for him every Spring. When going into pots like that, I put my Adult Tomato soil mix in the bottom 1/3 of the pot, a 50/50 blend of that and Sungrow potting soil in the middle third, and straight Sungrow in the top 1/3. {the Sungrow has no added nutes} It is mild when the seeds first pop, and gets hotter the deeper the roots go. There is enough umph in the soil that you don't really need to feed more than a very weak solution of 11-2-1 until they come out of the pot.
 
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full of purple

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sandhill larry said:
Sorry, but the pictures of them will soon stop. In another week or so they will be gone. I won't see them again until they are on a rolling tray. The BIL likes how I do the sprouts, so I do his for him every Spring. When going into pots like that, I put my Adult Tomato soil mix in the bottom 1/3 of the pot, a 50/50 blend of that and Sungrow potting soil in the middle third, and straight Sungrow in the top 1/3. {the Sungrow has no added nutes} It is mild when the seeds first pop, and gets hotter the deeper the roots go. There is enough umph in the soil that you don't really need to feed more than a very weak solution of 11-2-1 until they come out of the pot.
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Have your buddy send you updates here and there
We want pictures of finished product also lol

Rollitup
 
sandhill larry

sandhill larry

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full of purple said:
Have your buddy send you updates here and there
We want pictures of finished product also lol

Rollitup
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He's not the sort to take pictures. Old School Grower. When he started cash cropping in the 80's, he would live in the woods for two weeks in the spring getting his crop in the ground, then two weeks in the fall getting it picked and dried. I play at growing. He treats it like another job on the farm that has to get done.
 
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Last night I took a backpack of soil and my tools over to were the Peach are in the holding grounds. One of them has looked bad since I moved them and had kind of planned on killing it. But instead I transplanted it near the holding grounds. I started LOB training. Will play it by ear with this one. It will have more care here, so if it doesn't perk up, I will put something else in this spot. All of them had rough looking leaves from being in the taller weeds.

This picture was from this morning. You can see how the tip had already turned up.

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sandhill larry

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Alright, everything is safe.

I put the Peaches in the holes I had spruced up last week. LOB'd all of them.

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This is what I'm planting in. About 5 acres of huckleberry and blueberry bushes. Lots of deer. I sprayed the stinky stuff all around the plants. I'm calling this patch JP.

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