This is their Field & Brush Mower and it does seem too monstrous for easy handling.
I am looking at the Trimmer/Mower:
Posted on 05/27/2011 5:16:22 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
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Ok, back to gardening. Every one of my plants I started from seed are doing great! This includes two varieties of paste tomatoes and three varieties of winter squash and a few pepper plants. Unfortunately some of the beneficial flowers, I started in a small raised planter were raided by a digging Cashmere (Irish Setter) hiding her Milk Bones.
My garden received a nice drenching rain shower yesterday afternoon. It supplied a good soak for thirsty roots.
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This is their Field & Brush Mower and it does seem too monstrous for easy handling.
I am looking at the Trimmer/Mower:
My Mother, sister and I pruned Thompson vines for money to supplement our meager income. I also rolled the paper trays after the grapes had dried into raisins in the sun, then I helped "Box" the rolls in the field. Hot dirty work and lots of wasps and Black Widow spiders...
Have you considered a riding mower or is that what you have now?
Now the guy who sold me the Hustler maintains that I can cut cut the briars and small saplings with it just fine, but my husband pitches a fit when he sees me do it. He says that I'll dull the blades or knock them out of alignment, and it just never gets done.
I also have about a dozen string trimmers -- none of which I can use. Too heavy to lift for any length of time -- broken -- not broken, but won't start -- needs new string and I can't load it -- cut electrical cord by accident -- needed too far from house -- battery gives out in 15 minutes -- not strong enough for the job. Would you like a used trimmer?
I also have a self propelled push mower, but it is too wide to get around the well. (I really need to dig out around the well and install pavers, but I can't persuade mubby to do that any time soon.)
Is Round-up next in your arsenal? They make weed wreckers that have shoulder straps to support the weight. BTW...Very nice lawn mower!!! I am duly impressed.
Congratulations! Once agin you amaze me. Do you have any Goats that you can rent to AFTR before she hurts herself. There were 2 Blacktail Bucks bedded down just outside the back gate of the front garden so that means the fawns are imminent. There was also a mama and her 2 yearlings in my neighbors field but they are regulars...
Here's my 2 cents, and remember I am pretty much a newbie.LOL.
I would not plant Tomatoes where the potatoes grew last year. Plant Tomatoes after squash, cucumbers, pumpkins etc.
I always plant peas, beans or other legumes after a corn crop. I do not add fertilizer to any of my beds, so can't really speak to that. In general I am trying to avoid chemicals.
I put a scoop of organic compost for each sq. foot and work it in. After heavy users of nitrgen I work in the compost and plant legumes or cover crop. For veggies requiring potassium I add banana peels or old over ripe bananas. I use crushed egg shells. I also have some fish bones in case I need them.
For tomatoes and melons, I put a banana peel and some crushed egg shells in the bottom of the hole, cover with soil mixture and then plant the tomato.
Tomatoes should be a good choice to follow squashes and melons.
Onions are okay to plant between tomatoes, but I usually plant 3 basil, and some carrots, around tomatoes and one dwarf marigold in an adjacent square.
nitrgen=nitrogen
Thanks Ellendra. I’m looking at it.
I’ll let you know.
That’s pretty much what I’m doing. My potatos were in potato bags last year, but I’m going to try them in the ground. I was planning to plant them in a box where tomatoes (all healthy) grew last year (opposite of your warning).
Tomatoes are going in a box where squash, melons and beans were. Beans, peas, and ??? are going in the box where my failed corn grew and that is where I will add fertilizer.
OMG! That is just beyond cute!
2 weeks ago my husband caught sight of a tiny fawn out by the big, red barn in the tall grass where I can’t mow because there’s still a big tree limb down from winter. There were several adult deer standing around this very tiny fawn. The big deer all scattered when they saw my husband standing there, and the little one just sat down in the grass so that only his ears showed.
Then, a couple of days ago he spotted the baby again — this time in the front pasture behind the fence where I haven’t trimmed yet. He’s still tiny, but now he’s the size of a miniature poodle! He was peeking through the grass along the edge of the fence. He scampered away when he spotted us looking out the window.
That is really a sweet machine (the Mini Z). I mow more grass in half the time that it use to take my husband on the Bolens tractor. He now just uses that tractor to transport a trailer full of stuff from place to place on the property where we are working. I think that I have had the Hustler about 4 years now.
A friend of mine tried the old CDs to deter birds and deer and it worked ... for all of about 3 days. As soon as they get used to them, they ignore them.
We have almost 1000 acres of field corn that is already at the tassel stage. DH and son have planted 500 acres of cotton as of this morning. We just finished harvesting 400 acres of wheat, and they are preparing that ground to plant additional cotton. There are some a few soybeans somewhere, but I am not sure about the acreage.
Well that tired me out for the rest of the day! Do they have to irrigate any of those fields? I had to help flood irrigate cotton, alfalfa and barley in my ute. Used a kerosene lateran for those midnight changes and convinced me to study auto mechanics and flee as far from the farm as the Greyhound would take me. Still dismal weather here in Benderville this morning...
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