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  1. Alan in Vermont

    Homemade and STURDY Tomato Cages

    I finally got fed up with the commercially available cages. Things bend all outa shape, fall over with wind or heavy plants,, just plain JUNK! So I made some out of cattle fence panels. Made eight for a trial run. Cages are 12" square(need to be bigger) and in two pieces so they will stack...
  2. Alan in Vermont

    The Garden took a whipping today

    I've seen a lot of crops blown over, it's not super common here but it happens. I have never seen any recover the way my little area has. The first two pics are taken right where the first two from the other day were. The other two were just about turned inside out Wed. and you would...
  3. Alan in Vermont

    The Garden took a whipping today

    We got hit with torrential (thankfully brief) rain, 1/2" hail and high winds this afternoon. Not a lot of damage around the area but my garden took a pretty heavy hit. Prevailing winds are southerly so everything was pointing the wrong way when the northerly gusts came slamming in. Early...
  4. Alan in Vermont

    Starting Onions From Seed

    Onions are well into bulbing now. I started seeing cracks in the soil around them about a week ago. I watered them heavily then as we hadn't had any rain for 10-12 days. Then on 7/8 and 7/9 we got overnight rain, about 1.5" total which gave everything a kick. I took this shot this morning of...
  5. Alan in Vermont

    Starting Onions From Seed

    I sell through a local farmers market, in a normal year. This year I may no do that. This is being the year of bad things going on in the garden. For openers I'm only working about half my normal area. As the result of some surgery gone awry I have very limited use of my left hand and it...
  6. Alan in Vermont

    Starting Onions From Seed

    Since I took the pics they have started bulbing. Sunday morning there was no sign of it but by Tuesday evening there was visible swelling and cracking of the soil around many of the stems. It has been dry for a couple weeks and brutally hot for most of a week now so I started watering them...
  7. Alan in Vermont

    Starting Onions From Seed

    I got lazy about posting to this thread as the onions were developing into transplantable things. They kept going tall and spindly with frequent haircuts as they grew and kept falling over to grow along the surface of the soil. I was getting desperate, these things just weren't growing in...
  8. Alan in Vermont

    My garden 2010

    I set out plants for an experiment this morning. Conventional wisdom is that broccoli will bolt in hot weather. Granted, this year my original batch was set out so late it is probably in trouble already, but I already had seeds started for a "second crop". I dug out my super cheapo planting...
  9. Alan in Vermont

    My garden 2010

    I tend to think that my recycling activities are such that at least one good thing comes out of the elections.
  10. Alan in Vermont

    My garden 2010

    Because the worst crow activity is very early morning I have to keep the noise level down, no point upsetting the neighbors, especially in light of the questionable legality of dumping these things. That leaves me only one option for ammunition, a low power round, the "CB Long". Much as I wish...
  11. Alan in Vermont

    My garden 2010

    Nice crop of flags so far I planted a lot of cucurbits this year. Since the plot is odd shaped and also since bush type cucumbers need less room tham Prizewinner pumpkins it is hard to keep things relatively organized. With the (seemingly) haphazard way I was planting I needed a way to keep...
  12. Alan in Vermont

    My garden 2010

    I'm all too familiar with the pay more for less concept. But, when you are buying items by count, in this case the bunches are to be between 55 and 75 plants each with the sale unit being two bunches per "offer". That doesn't leave a lot of room for interpretation beyond that the buyer should...
  13. Alan in Vermont

    Crows!!!

    I managed to instill a little panic in a couple of the black bahstuds yesterday morning. There are dense woods, dropping down a hill, for 500 yds or so behind the garden. Makes a good people free backstop. Using rounds called CB Longs a .22 rimfire makes about as much noise as a cap...
  14. Alan in Vermont

    Crows!!!

    Crows really rankle me, way up there on the pest scale! They are a huge factor in nest and fledgeling loss in songbird and gamebird populations. Now, thanks to some bureacratric genius, they are a protected species under some treaty with Canada and Mexico. Have to give them credit though...
  15. Alan in Vermont

    Crows!!!

    Crows have found the garden and have been pulling my Prizewinner pumpkins as they break ground. Corn isn't showing yet so they haven't been able to raid that yet. Last year I put in four batches of corn, staggered planting dates to extend the marketing season. This plot got planted in 1/2lb...
  16. Alan in Vermont

    My garden 2010

    Between Friday and Saturday I got all my hand planted seeds in the ground. The bum knee was some bummed by yesterday afternoon and I had problems sleeping last night because of it. I had planned to plant corn today but it rained, starting after midnight and continued to the present. Not real...
  17. Alan in Vermont

    My garden 2010

    I'm gaining on my planting, slower than I want but gaining in spite of myself. Tomatoes went in two weeks ago, just in time to be assaulted by low 90s temps and dry, bright conditions. Lost a few and filled the blank spots up with broccoli. Peppers hit the ground yesterday, cauliflower a...
  18. Alan in Vermont

    I have volunteer pumpkins

    I was thinking how it was really early to be forming fruit on pumpkin vines, then I noticed where you are located,, DUH! The volunteer cucurbits I'm dealing with are Jack-B-Little pumpkins and small decorative gourds. The nasty buggers are taking over quite a patch of ground. I thought about...
  19. Alan in Vermont

    Planting in Tires

    Aesthetics have nothing to do with my technique. The tire functions as a dam to retain water right at the plants. As for this; I have no clue what you just said.
  20. Alan in Vermont

    Working the soil with "Heavy Equipment"

    Halfway there It's all grubbed out! Excavator arrived at 9:00 and left at 10.45. Small machine as excavators go (12,000 lb) but pretty major equipment compared to my 1800 lb tractor. Many tons of rock involved. We crowded a lot of them into the bucket on my tractor but quit when we managed...


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