Workhorse's 2013 bacca patch

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The rain started at about 3:45 pm today and its still going. My big 330lb. gilt got out today and started pulling up the MD B100, Not eating them just pulling them up! That's ok I'll get the last laugh, Sunday sounds like a good day to put one behind her ear. Next sunday sounds like a good day to have her ribs!

Ever try the vinegar trick? Pour a bottle of vinegar down the goat's throat and it will lay down, moan a couple times, and die peacefully in about ten minutes. The vinegar helps take that high kind of a wild goat I dunno what you call it flavor out of the flesh.

I do love goats. Mischievous rascals, funny, smart as can be, loads of personality, good lawnmowers, and then just the right size when you are ready to eat them. And those eyes!

 

[AmaxB]

Damn Rain to Goats if me the goat would not need to wait for Sunday.

 

[workhorse_01]

The gilt is a 330lb hog, she's the one pulling up plants and stomping. The goat don't like tobacco, as babies they will nibble the tip but as soon as the nicotine hits them they leave tobacco alone. LOL

Damn Rain to Goats if me the goat would not need to wait for Sunday.

 

[workhorse_01]

I have to build a new horse stall today. My son is going crazy waiting for me to get his paint home. The hogs got out yesterday because we had so much rain and standing water, the electric fence wire was in the water and grounded out. The funny thing is the hogs have gotten out 3 times this year before yesterday. They walk through my veggie garden and root out the grass They've been leaving all the veggies alone. Now I think this is dumb luck myself, but wouldn't that be cool if I could just leave them in the veggie garden and they control the grass for me? The problem is the big one likes to pull up bacca plants, and I'll kill her for that.

 

[workhorse_01]

The horse stall is done. The horse is in it. I drove 60 miles to get my son out of the wore out ground itch boots and in to a brand new pair of Justin's. On the way we past a lot of tobacco fields and got some video of some of them for y'all burley guys. My replacement TV came from Vizio today (great people to deal with) No real hastlle on replacing a out of warranty 65" 3D smart TV. My tobacco looks drowned and I'm not sure if half of it is gonna make it. I'm almost thinking of pulling it up and putting some of it back in to pots to try and save it. Maybe the rain will go back to a normal pattern and I can re plant it.

 

[workhorse_01]

Chicken is supposed to come spend the day with me today. Woo hoo! I hope he brings water boots! I bought a electric smoker yesterday, and I think it will make quite the nice kiln. Almost 150 plants are gone due to the rain and standing water. It has filled all the ditches and backed up in the yard. I've got to transplant my plants that aren't planted yet to 32oz cups because if I plant them they will surely drown. I hope we can get in to a normal weather pattern soon and dry out. If we don't there wont be much bacca for the workhorse.

 

[DGBAMA]

Wow.......sorry to hear of the Mass Drowning. Hope it dries out for you.

 

[Knucklehead]

All around me wheat is still standing in the fields that can't be harvested and cotton fields that can't be planted.

 

[johnlee1933]

Chicken is supposed to come spend the day with me today. Woo hoo! I hope he brings water boots! I bought a electric smoker yesterday, and I think it will make quite the nice kiln. Almost 150 plants are gone due to the rain and standing water. It has filled all the ditches and backed up in the yard. I've got to transplant my plants that aren't planted yet to 32oz cups because if I plant them they will surely drown. I hope we can get in to a normal weather pattern soon and dry out. If we don't there wont be much bacca for the workhorse.

Fear not. I got your back.

 

[workhorse_01]

Thank you johnlee, It's starting to look up. Chicken just left, and I hope he doesn't fall asleep on the way home. Jennifer made him eat too much. LOL We hung out and looked over my drowning bacca plants. The LORD must have heard my prayers because it rained 8 tenths of a mile from me today but not here, pshew , Thank you Lord! We looked at the plants again before chicken left and the water went down about 4". At least most of them still have their leaves in the praying hands position.

 

[Jitterbugdude]

At least most of them still have their leaves in the praying hands position.

There ya go.. The LORD didn't hear your prayers he just got tired of all your tobacco plants praying to him

 

[AmaxB]

Keep us posted they gotta make it. Is just to much work and worries to lose them over a little water.

 

[workhorse_01]

I'm honestly thinking about going to Tractor supply and buying a trash pump. It's raining now, so all the drying up we did yesterday is filling back up today. I need two weeks with no rain and temps at 101*F to be able to even walk in my garden. Theres okra 10" long after 4 days of not picking. That ones for seed now!

Keep us posted they gotta make it. Is just to much work and worries to lose them over a little water.

 

[Chicken]

i had a real good time,,,,

allthough i got home late, the woman didnt get to go to the bar. like she wanted to.

i's raining hard here right now.

 

[workhorse_01]

I'm thinking maybe this week I'm going to start new seed for all my varieties and replant. I have 4 1/2 months before typical frost, and I think I have enough time to do it. The plants I have in the ground can stay but even if they make anything It'll probably be stunted, and most of my varieties have taken losses as it is. If I start over now, I can have seed germination in maybe 5 days, 1 Month in the cups with this heat, then three months and a week in the ground. If we don't get early frost this year it can work.

 

[johnlee1933]

I'm thinking maybe this week I'm going to start new seed for all my varieties and replant. I have 4 1/2 months before typical frost, and I think I have enough time to do it. The plants I have in the ground can stay but even if they make anything It'll probably be stunted, and most of my varieties have taken losses as it is. If I start over now, I can have seed germination in maybe 5 days, 1 Month in the cups with this heat, then three months and a week in the ground. If we don't get early frost this year it can work.

And that seems a bit long. Won't most mature in 75 days?

 

[workhorse_01]

Yes sir, I think if I restart now, The rain may be in a normal pattern by the time they get ready for the ground. (may be wishfull thinking)

And that seems a bit long. Won't most mature in 75 days?

 

[johnlee1933]

Yes sir, I think if I restart now, The rain may be in a normal pattern by the time they get ready for the ground. (may be wishfull thinking)

Sounds like a plan. Get on it dawg!

 

[DonH]

You will need closer to two months in a cup than one month. In four weeks, the seedlings would be way too small to plant outside not matter what kind of heat they have to grow in. Plus, even if you have a long way to go before a frost, the days are getting shorter now which could (I don't know this) trigger early flowering.

I wouldn't bother. You wouldn't be able to get the plants in the ground until September. But maybe I'm wrong.

 

[Knucklehead]

I wonder what happened to all BigBonner's left overs? You might could swing a deal this late in the year. Also, now would be a good time to work on breeding water resistant plants. We'll pool our seed at the end of the year. (Not funny, I know, but what else can we do?)