Lickbranchfarm's 2018 Garden thread

[Nyboy]

I can think of a lot of reasons with none of them involving kids....

They gave them chore almost as soon as they could walk. My father was the youngest everyday after school he had to take their 2 goats to a field to graze. And yes they live in a small city LOL

 

[ninnymary]

Very nice barn. It's amazing it went up in one day. What will you use it for?

Mary

 

[thistlebloom]

Total barn envy here!

 

[6884]

Very nice barn. It's amazing it went up in one day. What will you use it for?

Mary

I work on just about anything you can imagine. I do a lot of welding and custom aluminum fabrication, especially on Jon boats.

But for now it will be for storage, a lot of storage Lol.

 

[baymule]

Nice barn! Did the company that put up the barn also do the slab or did you have that done by someone else?

 

[flowerbug]

I work on just about anything you can imagine. I do a lot of welding and custom aluminum fabrication, especially on Jon boats.

But for now it will be for storage, a lot of storage Lol.

looks great!

make sure to get those doors sealed up completely, mice will get into everything they can and getting them back out once they get established is a royal PITA. box well anything you can so they can't get into it easily for nesting.

 

[6884]

Nice barn! Did the company that put up the barn also do the slab or did you have that done by someone else?

They did.....Paid for the concrete up front to get on the schedule, they delivered, 4 weeks later built the barn. These guys were by far the cheapest, and fastest metal building company that I found In North Carolina. They were also the only one with a 5 star BBB rating.

 

[ninnymary]

Sounds like you got lucky they are in your area. Nice score.

Mary

 

[6884]

Did some watering yesterday, we're suppose to get rain this evening, and every evening this week. We had 5 straight days In the upper 90's here and the garden has jumped in just a matter of days. I finally have cantaloupe sprouts, only thing I'm waiting on now is all the skips I planted last week, and my watermelons, now I'm just in maintain mode Lol. Corn has to be laid by soon or my draw bar on the tractor is going to push it over. Okra already has 4 leaves, this is usually the time it makes a run to the clouds, I've had okra get over 7' here before, that's when I take a bush hog to it, no good if I cant reach it to cut it. Zucchini is looking great, hope to get a truck load before the vine borers show up, and they will just a matter of time.

Zucchini

Kale...

White corn...

Yellow corn and Okra....

Peppers....

Better Boys....

Brandywines, and Cherokee purples In the background...

Blue lake beans.....

 

[baymule]

That is a nice garden! You can pinch the tops out of the okra, it will branch out and increase the harvest.