[AT] O.T. - 2015 National Daylily Convention

[David Rotigel]

Only the word BEAUTIFUL can describe your garden, Herb!
	Dave

On Jun 6, 2015, at 7:35 PM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:

> Grant & Others,
> Have Not Found a potato digger yet.  Present problem is lack of time to look 
> for one.
> 
> In addition to getting our one acre vegetable garden up and operating, we 
> must "touch up" our Daylily Garden, which is one of eight 'host gardens' for 
> this years annual national convention.  Will have 600 daylily enthusiasts 
> (from every state except Alaska) in our garden on June 12 &13. During the 
> seventeen years we have lived here, many smaller areas have become 
> beautified with various flowers/plantings; these also must be included in 
> our touch up.  Daylilies are in Hemerocallis family, so pull up '2015 AHS 
> Convention, then click on tour gardens.  Two sons laid the PA. blue stone 
> around water fountain and made the tinman and special log seatbench.  We are 
> relatively new to daylilies so have had to do some real 'catch up 
> scrambling' the past three years.  Just like with antique tractors, we have 
> met and established many new friendships with some swell people of similar 
> interests.
> 
> Sometime in late June or July I hope to have spare time to find a potato 
> digger; in addition to digging potatoes, want to dig sweet potatoes and want 
> to remove rocks larger than golf balls (have 5' tiller for AC D-14 and 4' 
> tiller for AC720 but will not use them until larger rocks have been 
> removed).
> Any spottings will be appreciated, and pursued.
> Herb(GA)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Grant Brians
> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2015 10:23 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: [AT] Quick question for Herb Metz
> 
> Did you ever find a potato digger? I saw some in PA avail recently, but
> cannot loan our 100HP 2 row unit to you across the country.... We dug
> our first field on 7May thanks to the warm winter/early spring here in
> California. We are digging more each week.
>           Grant Brians
> 
> 
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