Wonderful photo.
Bob
Bob
Knucklehead's 2022 Prilep and Veggie Container Grow Blog
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That was on the farm where I grew up. I currently live about three miles from there. I'm slowing working my way towards Texas.
First Prilep season is winding on down. Will see if I can get in a sucker crop.
Wilting/yellowing in the garage then move to full sun.
We've been having almost daily thunderstorms for the past several days. I have to move these in and out of the rain and in at night so I don't have to go back out in the middle of the night in a downpour.
Wilting/yellowing in the garage then move to full sun.
We've been having almost daily thunderstorms for the past several days. I have to move these in and out of the rain and in at night so I don't have to go back out in the middle of the night in a downpour.
@Knucklehead Please tell us that when you plan to tow your pool reservoirs, that you’ll take a video! I keep envisioning a cartoon Coyote driving around a 4 wheeler, side by side, or even a riding lawn mower with plants in tow! Heck, maybe even some little humans would want to go land tubing, without even needing to get out of the pool!
With your plan for next year. This is the guy I first saw the blue kiddie pool growing idea from. His channel might have some more on them if you were looking for more.
Plant Abundance Kiddie Pools
Plant Abundance Kiddie Pools
Thank you for the link. I need to experiment to determine depth of my overflow hole and a way to completely drain the pools in case of several days of rain. I don't want to drown the tobacco, they can go down fast. Hopefully I can avoid mosquitos if the pool is completely dry for a day while the soil in the bags dries out and then water again up to the overflow hole. Watering every single day is a hassle. Two days would at least be give me some breathing space and options in regards to timing and days off.
The sucker crop is coming along. I gave them some fertilizer today.
The last of my first crop. We've had a series of thunderstorms moving through the past several days and some of the stems are slow to dry. I may pile this bunch on seedling heat mats to finish stem drying.
The last of my first crop. We've had a series of thunderstorms moving through the past several days and some of the stems are slow to dry. I may pile this bunch on seedling heat mats to finish stem drying.
Prilep sucker plants
Tomato leaves are turning yellow but there are still plenty of green tomatoes coming along. We've frozen quite a bit. My worst pests so far has turned out to be squirrels. They wait until the tomato is ripe and take a couple of bites and move on. I'm having to harvest slightly early in oder to beat the squirrels. We'll let them sit on the counter a couple of days to finish ripening for freezing.
Corn, beans, and squash have given up the ghost.
Okra finally kicked into high gear and we're harvesting some every other day and some days daily.
I ended up with one pumpkin per vine. The leaves are dead so I'm not sure if these will hold on until Halloween. I've never grown pumpkin before.
Tomato leaves are turning yellow but there are still plenty of green tomatoes coming along. We've frozen quite a bit. My worst pests so far has turned out to be squirrels. They wait until the tomato is ripe and take a couple of bites and move on. I'm having to harvest slightly early in oder to beat the squirrels. We'll let them sit on the counter a couple of days to finish ripening for freezing.
Corn, beans, and squash have given up the ghost.
Okra finally kicked into high gear and we're harvesting some every other day and some days daily.
I ended up with one pumpkin per vine. The leaves are dead so I'm not sure if these will hold on until Halloween. I've never grown pumpkin before.
When I was growing up in Atlanta, back in the 1950s, my grandmother always had several slightly green tomatoes from her garden sitting on her window sill. Last week, as I was placing several slightly green tomatoes on my kitchen window sill...I suddenly understood why she did that.
Bob
Bob
skychaser
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How do you freeze your tomatoes? I never had much luck with that. They are good for cooking things like spaghetti sauce but never come out of the freezer like anything close to fresh one?
We blanch them about three minutes, just long enough to allow the skin to come off. Drain the water, replace with cold water which allows easier skin removal. Then we put them on a cookie sheet and freeze them in the freezer. Then we put the hardened tomatoes in a vacuum sealer and seal them up for freezer storage. We make a lot of homemade vegetable soup in the winter. You can use them like fresh for anything if you freeze smaller portions. Pre-freezing on a tray prevents the tomatoes from getting flattened and the juice squeezed out by the vacuum sealer.
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One over-tomatoed year, I diced unpeeled, uncooked (unblanched) tomatoes, and froze them in 1 quart freezer Ziploc bags. They froze into ¾" thick slabs. They held in the freezer for at least 3 months like that. Because of the bits of tomato skin, it benefitted from being thawed, then blenderized, prior to making into spaghetti sauce, etc.. Though the storage is relatively short, it beats tossing unused tomatoes during the boom week(s). I have given up on canning veggies during the hot days of summer. (Too old; too hot; too tired.) But I do consume them as much as I can—salads, sandwiches, soups, stews, gumbos.
Bob
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The Prilep suckers. One is flowering.
pottsS
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I finally got around to trying it. I'm still looking for a better way to shred cigarette tobacco. This does work pretty good, but it is less productive than what I do now. My injector is a Powermatic 3 and I was anxious to try the flakes in it. The flakes work well but for me the biggest surprise was how many more tubes I filled with a hopper of tobacco! Usually it uses .8-1g per tube. With these flakes it filled the tubes with 0.6g. One would think that might be a little to loose. I smoked a lighter one and it smoked fine although a little faster than usual. (That could be a good thing, sometimes the heavier cigarettes I smoke half and butt it out for later.)
The latest Prilep sucker photos. I have been quite neglectful to them. Fertilized once, less water, a hornworm wave got ahead of me, still plenty of nice leaf for me.
pottsS
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A pea sheller is for sale in my area...it looks like something that could automate the process. It's like the one in this link, only it has a motorI built a flake maker/shredder based on a couple of posts by Skychaser a few years ago.
Polish G120, other shredders and gadgets
I have had my Powermatic since 2015. Can't get it to stay continuously on but it still shreds. I am not mechanically inclined so do not wat to take it apart could simply be something in the contact switch so in 4 years may have gone through 10 pounds a year. In order to get to work I have to...fairtradetobacco.com
Polish G120, other shredders and gadgets
I have had my Powermatic since 2015. Can't get it to stay continuously on but it still shreds. I am not mechanically inclined so do not wat to take it apart could simply be something in the contact switch so in 4 years may have gone through 10 pounds a year. In order to get to work I have to...
I had been wanting to try that method for years since I usually just let my leaf dry out in the bags after kilning and a few years of aging. It can take me several days to hydrate my five varieties for my cigarette blend and they all require different amounts of misting or drying back down. I never guess right and I always seem to struggle until all five varieties feed without gumming up the shredder blades. This is stupid simple. Crumble your leaf into 1/4" screen wire and what falls through goes into your pipe or cigarette blend. After the big chunks are broken down, just rub the leaf across the screen and pieces start falling through the screen. No dust. (Mine is slightly overengineered) The box measures 13-1/2 x 8" outside and was built to fit a small storage tub. I can set the whole thing in my lap and not have to bend or reach for anything heavier than a handful of dry leaf. Big shout out to Skychaser. That was brilliant!
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I made two separate boxes, stapled 1/4" screen wire to the top of one, then screwed the second box on top of the first box so I don't have to deal with the cut edges of the wire. Two screws hold the two boxes together in case I need to separate them, although I can't think of a reason why I would ever need to.
Homemade Pea Sheller
Having grown up on a farm, I can appreciate the labour-saving advantage machines provide for larger-than-backyard scale agricultural work. ...
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That's a really neat device.A pea sheller is for sale in my area...it looks like something that could automate the process. It's like the one in this link, only it has a motor
Homemade Pea Sheller
Having grown up on a farm, I can appreciate the labour-saving advantage machines provide for larger-than-backyard scale agricultural work. ...
