[AT] Off topic but tractor related

Thu Jul 8 14:28:22 PDT 2010

Charlie, field peas would be a good late summer/early fall crop too.

Al

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From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 4:55 PM
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> It was officially 99 here yesterday but I saw 100 on my truck thermometer
> while driving down the road at 60 mph.    I was stopped with the engine
> idling for a while talking to a fellow and it went to 111.  I realize that
> was engine heat but still.  Today it is cooler by about 10 to 15 degrees 
> but
> it's humid today and actually feels just as hot.
>
> I guess some sort of mixed greens would do well for a winter cover and I
> like all of those things raw in a salad but I don't like the bitter greens
> cooked.
>
>
>
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> From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 2:23 PM
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>
>> I use a mixture of turnips, mustard, radish, rape and kale as my winter
>> covercrop for pat of the garden.  I like the greens and in addition I
>> get the covercrop.
>>
>> My few potatoes didn't do squat, my onions are ready to harvest but with
>> near triple digit temps it won't happen today.  My unofficial
>> thermometer reads 104 but it is usually + 5.
>>
>> Heard a noise and my Chow and I looked out.  She went to make sure the
>> UPS man wasn't bothering my mom and I said "no way".  Hot, humid and by
>> these conditions should be late August.
>>
>> David
>> NW NC
>>
>> On 7/8/2010 1:50 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>>> Thanks David.  I'm not fond of turnips (at least the greens) or mustard
>>> so
>>> I'll probably pass on those.   Of course I could plant them just for the
>>> heck of it.   I am tempted to try some fall potatoes.  I'll look for one
>>> with some eyes and give it a try.  I don't have any certified potato 
>>> sets
>>> but I have some I grew and I have some sulfur to coat them with.   I
>>> planted
>>> my onions late and with the dry weather they didn't do well.   The tops
>>> were
>>> big but limp.  They wouldn't stand up like they should.  The onions
>>> (bulb)
>>> didn't grow well and none of them ever reached a size bigger than a golf
>>> ball.  Then the strangest thing happened.  I noticed the tops were dying
>>> back so I decided to go ahead and dig them.  The next day I went out and
>>> almost all the tops were gone,  completely gone.    I dug up the onions 
>>> I
>>> could find where there were some tops and dug up about half of the rest
>>> of
>>> the row and never found a thing beyond the few tops I could see.
>>> STRANGE.
>>> I would say critters  got them but the row wasn't disturbed and there
>>> were
>>> no mole trails near the row.  I'm going to dig some more.
>>>
>>> I hadn't thought about winter squash.  I don't really have a good spot
>>> for a
>>> garden here at the house.  Plenty of land but too many trees and it's
>>> terribly sandy and dry here.  The farm is too far away for me to really
>>> tend
>>> to a garden there so I'm just experimenting here and trying to hone my
>>> skills.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know about Jerusalem Artichokes (different than regular
>>> artichokes)?  It's kind of a sunflower type plant with a tuber root that
>>> is
>>> edible.  It's not a fall crop. Just interested if anyone knows about
>>> them.
>>> Yes, late January is the time to plant onions here but I didn't get them
>>> in.
>>> In March when I went to buy my seed potatoes they still had some onion
>>> sets
>>> and they were cheap so I decided to try them.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
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>>> From: "David Bruce"<davidbruce at yadtel.net>
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 1:26 PM
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>>>
>>>> Charlie,
>>>>
>>>> My choices would be beans, squash (both summer and winter squash),
>>>> cucumbers and later on (maybe late August) turnips and other greens 
>>>> like
>>>> mustard.  Not sure about potatoes either but if you have room why not?
>>>>
>>>> Lots of people here plant potatoes and onions in February so maybe even
>>>> in January for you.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>> NW NC
>>>>
>>>> On 7/8/2010 12:41 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a question for the gardeners and farmers in the group,
>>>>> particularly
>>>>> those familiar with the growing season and conditions of coastal NC.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been growing a small garden this year.  It's really an experiment
>>>>> to
>>>>> see what I remember from my youth.  I haven't grown a garden beyond a
>>>>> couple
>>>>> of tomato plants in 30 years or more.
>>>>> So far my experiment has done ok.  My potatoes were a disappointment
>>>>> but
>>>>> that was the result of a very dry spring.  The potatoes I got were 
>>>>> nice
>>>>> and
>>>>> healthy but there just weren't many of them.
>>>>> Only 2 or 3 per hill.  They have been dug now as have my onions that
>>>>> didn't
>>>>> do well at all.
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is what plants can I plant now and into the late summer to
>>>>> get a
>>>>> late summer or fall crop?   I've got lots of tomatoes growing now and
>>>>> they
>>>>> are starting to ripen nicely.  I've got squash and sweet potatoes
>>>>> coming
>>>>> along and some beans I planted late just to see what they would do.
>>>>> They
>>>>> are starting to flower now.   But I want to use the potato and onion
>>>>> plot
>>>>> for some sort of fall crop.  Preferably something that cans well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions?  I considered trying another potato crop.  I think
>>>>> there
>>>>> is
>>>>> enough growing season left but I can't find any reference online to
>>>>> fall
>>>>> potato crops.  I'm thinking some cucumbers would work.   When I was a
>>>>> kid
>>>>> we
>>>>> planted two cucumber crops a year.  Who has an idea?  It doesn't
>>>>> usually
>>>>> frost here until at least mid October.  I'm on high sandy loam so soil
>>>>> moisture is my biggest concern.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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