What Did You Do In The Garden?

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Harvested ...

Cut off foliage of the 2nd planting of potatoes. That's a better way to prep them for storage than just digging. The skins toughen with loss of foliage and that has been my experience. Probably can give them a couple of weeks before digging.

An important prompt to do this was discovering the tiniest of potato beetle larvae on the plants. Eggs must just have hatched. Now, those pesky bugs have dying leaves and nothing else. It would take them days to crawl off to the tomatoes or eggplant. I'll have to watch for them.

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a few sessions of scraping gravel away from the pallets so i can be ready for when the drain tubes become available... almost half way with that subtask after two sessions so perhaps can be ready by the end of this week or early next week.

today have to pick tomatoes, cucumbers and probaly could get the onions out of their garden too so they can cure.

rains now past so i will also have to check the beans over the next week to see what is ready to bring in for drying/shelling.
 

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Harvesting sweet corn and building a fence for our poultry run

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Cried.....coons got my first 3 plantings of sweet corn about 5 days before it was ready. 4th planting I hoped was safe as I saw they had switched to field corn. Nope! Day before I could pick it, annihilated the whole patch..

If not for my wife’s cats, I’d bait the whole batch. I’d like to give my expenses bill to the tree huggers.....
 

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Cried.....coons got my first 3 plantings of sweet corn about 5 days before it was ready. 4th planting I hoped was safe as I saw they had switched to field corn. Nope! Day before I could pick it, annihilated the whole patch..

If not for my wife’s cats, I’d bait the whole batch. I’d like to give my expenses bill to the tree huggers.....

the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting anything different...
 

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Cried.....coons got my first 3 plantings of sweet corn about 5 days before it was ready. 4th planting I hoped was safe as I saw they had switched to field corn. Nope! Day before I could pick it, annihilated the whole patch..

If not for my wife’s cats, I’d bait the whole batch. I’d like to give my expenses bill to the tree huggers.....
so sorry that is disappointing
 

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I'm gobsmacked,
I cant imagine losing my crop like that, but I cant help wondering....how did they know your crop was ready?
Thats just amazing in a horrible way.

they're active creatures and have good noses. they can find a single buckwheat or sunflower seed buried in the ground.
 

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I'm gobsmacked,
I cant imagine losing my crop like that, but I cant help wondering....how did they know your crop was ready?
Thats just amazing in a horrible way.
They can smell the pollen.

I understood when the other corn wasn’t ready but once they started on that field, thought I was safe. Nope. Never been hit before.
 

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