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  1. Al Smith

    Garden time!!

    Which by the way is the traditional day of garden planting .
  2. Al Smith

    Garden time!!

    What's neat about a trellis is the fact you can grow a lot of vining veggies in a small space .In addition cuces have a tendency to hide from you with the vines on the ground ' You don't see it them before you know it the damned thing is too far long to eat .Also growing on the ground they tend...
  3. Al Smith

    Garden time!!

    For reasons unknown to me you just don't see half runners or Kentucky wonders grown around here .Maybe people don't like to put up the poles and string or some thing ? I use a trellis for the cucumbers . Kinda neat ,a big old pickle hanging on the vine two feet in the air .
  4. Al Smith

    Garden time!!

    I must have tater growing in my blood lines or something . My maternal grandfather besides being a horse trader ,lumber man and general ornery cuss also raised potatoes . My mother said he literally sold them by the box car load during the 40's . Did it all with horses,the taters and the...
  5. Al Smith

    Garden time!!

    I usually plowed them out it late August .I had an old fashion potatoe plow I adapted for a three point hitch .I could dig up spuds like nobodies business . Once the vines die they don't grow any more but you could wait until it frosts if you wanted to before you dig them . I used to dig into...
  6. Al Smith

    Garden time!!

    Too early here ,still too cold . We have a raised bed ,4 by 40 feet .Just some tomatoes ,cucumbers on a trellis ,peppers .Salad type stuff . In a former life with former wife I planted between 100 and 150 pounds of spuds per year .That equates into as much as a ton of taters if they do real...
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