Keystone State Thread

I'm doing green peppers, several types of tomato, potatoes, an early and late variety of corn, beans, peas, carrots, yellow straightneck squash, cucumbers, and lettuce.

 

Last Saturday me and the neighbor chopped down 7 huge pines and yanked up the stumps.

To replace those, I grabbed some baby Golden Rain Trees from somewhere they're growing like weeds near an adult tree. They're about 8 inches tall at the moment and I'm giving them the TLC pulling them in each night after dark and then taking them out when I wake up. Gotta keep the frost off and make sure they've got a fair shot. So far they're doing well after the transplant from where I pulled them. The goal is to have the grass re-grow over all that muddy mess from the pine tree removal, then lay down some new slat fence on that border, and THEN put in the baby trees. Should be a process over the next couple months.

But thanks to this COVID-19 stay at home order for the extra time at home to accomplish such long overdue chores.

 

I planted a bunch of acorns in pots, hoping they come up and I can get some home grown oaks in next year.

 

way more ambitious than I can be. This is the vegetable garden:



Little 4x4 plot with good southern exposure is as good as it gets here.

 

Do oaks ever grow where you want them in an intentional manner like that? I have no experience with actually trying to make one germinate. I have only ever transplanted them from existing seedlings that spring up here and there in flower beds, etc.

 

I've done this with Japanese Maple trees.

 

Which one, taking the little propeller seeds and germinating them, or transplanting existing seedlings?

 

Mine is about 50x75.

I have so many acorns out back that it crunches when I walk. Some of them you can see have started popping roots down into the ground, so if push comes to shove I'll just pot some that come up before I have to mow.

 

That is one sexy first gen you got there. I like the white on white wheels

 

Needs some mud.

 

Wat in trailing arm tarnation is going on there?

 

That might be as close to OffRoading that truck every gets!!!

Only a few feet from real grass.

 

Never they will just grow where they are a pain.

Plant them from a sapling it will die but the one in the truck bed will be just fine

 

Critter, he might be referring to that bar that goes from your frame to your rear wheel?

 

Both Actually.

 

This is from a few years ago - the fence is aged now - my wife's garden. We've added 3 earth boxes for growing tomatoes and a trellis in the back for green beans.

 

Anyone here install a brake controller on their truck? Looking for a little insight. Thanks!

 

do you have a tow package?

 

Whelp Sandra hit a deer.. might be steel bumper time for her.

Haven't seen the damage yet.

 

Is she ok?