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What'd I do in the garden today? A bunch. Been sprucing things up. I weed-eated around every box and then mowed everything else. I've got a large 4x8 box that I need to weed tomorrow so I can plant some peas in it. Teresa's promised she'll clean off her asparagus box and see what we have...

Well, I'm not really a good record keeper but I do seem to remember buying 5 pounds of the Kennebeck Red seed potatoes from our local SouthernStates co-op. It may have been 10 but I'm just not sure a year later. We planted reds in one 10x4 box and Yukon Golds in another the same size. I...

Sorry, I meant to report that I'd bought Red Kennebeck seed potatoes. I plan on putting Kennebecks in the two big boxes once I get the second one replaced. Then I'm going to take a smaller 4'x4'x12" and plant a pound of mixed fingerlings that I bought about six weeks ago and I've let them...

I've got 10 lbs of seed potatoes in the sunroom that are sprouting out all over the place. I've got to get them cut into seed pieces and dusted with agricultural sulfur so I can get them in the ground tomorrow. But first I have to rebuild one of my boxes. I got my weedeater out this afternoon...

It's been pretty cold here in central NC for the past week or so. Colder than normal by almost 20 degrees. Today at work some techno-geek fresh out of University tried to tell me all about global warming and climate change and how this cold weather was the result of all that. I lit his @$$ on...

Last year we put in half of a 4'x8'x12" box of Chinese cabbage along with the other half of brocolli and we got a great crop from both. I don't keep records very well but I do believe I had them in the boxes by this past week last year too. They headed up really well and we gave a lot of it...

Well, after Friday morning's 21*F here in central NC I thought for sure we'd have to restart our lettuce, cabbage and collards that we'd put out just last weekend. But we covered them up and there's a little burning of the Chinese cabbage's lower leaves but they look like they may be OK. I'm...

Well, I got the last of my pecans trees in the ground. I actually planted four because I had to get a Cape Fear Type I cultivar to go with the three Gloria Grande Type II's that I already had. I found the Cape Fear at Lowes. I dug the holes 36+ inches wide and 42 inches deep. I put about 6...

My Darling Wife (she's standing over me as I type this) loves her new dishwasher. She says it gives me more time to do more chores around the house. And with spring coming she can get me out of the house after dinner a lot faster. Yeah, she likes it.

Nice pic, Catfish. Really good catch you have there. Good Eye!

Here in the South a lot of people swear by the Redneck Potato gardening method. I've been wanting to try it but just haven't yet. But according to my friend you take 4 or 5 auto tires and put one on the ground that you've dug up a bit and put down some rotted manure, etc. Then you put in 4 or...

I've grown potatoes in raised bed boxes for the past four years and we've gotten great results. Last year in one 4'x8'x12" box we got 96 pounds of red Pontiac potatoes (or at least that's the kind we think we planted). The other box was a little less productive but that's because the puppy got...

VFem, this is way Cool! I want to come back as a pecan tree. With a little luck I'll make a bunch of nuts for 20 or 30 years or so. Kind of keeping with my current themes... And then when I die again someone will make me into a dresser or a nightstand. Way Cool! And for you Yankee folks...

BayMule, I'll put them on my list that I'm going to send in tomorrow. One more shot because I do like beans. Just about any kind of beans. You got your beans and rice. And red beans and shrimp. Chili beans. Butter beans. Pinto beans. Starting to sound like Bubba Blue of Forrest Gump...

Good advice, Marshall. Thanks all! Jim

All, I've dug down to 42" and the holes are 36" wide. What I'm going to do at this point is to put about 6" of gray #5 granite gravel in the bottom of each hole and then insert a piece of 4" corrugated pipe to the bottom along with the root ball. The pipe will stick up out of the ground about...

Baymule, I'm not sure of the variety. Your's look a lot greener than the ones I grew. Mine were green with a yellowish tint and were knobby like. And as I remember they had spots on the hulls. When you shelled them the insides were like cotton or kind of spongy with the beans separated by an...

Naw... It'd be like Alice's Restaurant where Arlo was sent to the Group 'W' Bench with all the Mother Rapers and Father Rapers. When one of them asked him what he did he said he littered and they all moved away from him. But transporting of and procession of illicit nut trees in the state of...

BobM, Unfortunately I'm going to have to dig the holes by hand using a shovel, post hole diggers, and a heavy breaker bar. I cut the first hole in about 30 minutes and got down 36" pretty quickly but the next 6" was a lot of work. When I got down below 36" the clay got hard and dry and was...

BobM, What kind of soil do you have? We've got this nasty stuff they call Bull Tallow or something like that which is a greyish yellow heavy clay that just won't perk. We have a septic system with a dual leech field field each having 3 lines. I have to switch the lines over with a valve every...