We started our seeds late, but do have some cucumbers and basil starting to come up now. If all the tomatoes come up we will have plenty of those.

I cut 166 spears last night. 120 the night before that. Asparagus is going nuts.

Sunday I put out onions, spinach, beets, and lettuce. Ground temps up here are still too cold to plant much. Ag dept is warning farmers not to plant corn for another week. h.h.

Lettuce and carrots are sprouted. Peas should be peaking out any time

Sweet corn is coming up and the tomatoes are in the ground. Everything is planted but my melon n pumpkin patch

I cut 80 lbs of asparagus this week an sold it here at school. My tomatoes that I plant in tubs are baseball size. Tons of blooms on strawberries. Peppers planted. Cucumbers and Zuc. are about 3 inches tall.

Ive got all my garden planted now and hope it rains today. Be quite a while before any veggies get picked here. h.h.

Asparagus is native to Maritime areas, and was originally found growing in the salt marshes, and along the coasts. It is very tolerant to salt.

The wife and I were out till 10 pm last eve to get the garden in before it rained. Got some good rain today, just hope it dont get washed out early in the week tho.

Salt in asparagus is an Old Indian Trick= NO WEEDS I found out something the hard way Blackberry Canes Are NOT tolerant to Round Up had to replant but was able to get about 50 starts Free they are in the ground

Just salt on top of dirt or when you plant it?

top of dirt on mature plants Is what I have always done

We have a teacher here at school that helped her dad plant 32,000 melons this weekend.

We have done 42 quarts of tomatoes so far this year. We are using the electric turkey fryer to do a cold pack. Works great.

I use a propane fish fryer and a 7 qt/21 pint canner. Cranked up on high it gets to temp in 5 minutes or less. h.h.

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And now the persimmons are falling like crazy. It is a bumper year. I sold 440 bags of pulp last year I am on track to beat that.

Parrot Head How can you possibly do that much? We have found the process to be very labor intensive.

I just mowed our garden down this evening. We got a lot of tomatoes and green beans this year along with some onions.

Plant some green manure and then till it under in the Spring. Your garden will thank you.

I still have tomatoes ,sunflowers, green beans , potatoes, and peppers to put up yet.

As you know they don't fall all at once or I couldn't do it. I do some every night. Plus mine are seedless too. They have been falling for 3 weeks now. I did get my potatoes out of my tires this weekend too. Great harvest and no digging. Will be sowing it all in winter wheat soon. Oh and the pecans are starting to drop too.

No more persimmons for me I am over them for the year. Got 506 bags Prob. another 30-50 bags prob on the tree, but I have had enough fun. I did catch my 17th mole last night with my new trap. The mole eliminator is a beast.

Where did you buy the "eliminator" at???

Thanks...

I bought mine at the Farm Co Op. Hardware stores have them too. And on-line of course. Make sure you get the real thing not a cheap made knock off model. It will be made in USA. It is heavy duty.

I was looking at my trap last night it was made in Sunman IN

Got number 19 last night. Have trap reset. Had one move into barn yard and also front yard.

Finished picking peppers last week. I still have sugar snap peas going strong. Did shelly beans on Tuesday.

Dug my onions that had rejuvenated. Cut the green tops and put in freezer. Bulbs are drying. Cut off the sunflower heads and put up to dry. Everything is finally out. Time to plow.

Got my green manure growing and got a load of Doc Overleese's mule poo to spread out.

We had a great year. Best so far.