now 2022 veg garden

[M4wdFab]

im thinking a bunny family has found they can fit through the 2x4" fence.  i guess next year i need to get a roll of 1" for the bottom 2'

[M]

bunnies? how tall were your corn?


around here corn is about 4-6+ feet now

[luvmyxj]

Gotta be deer, think you underestimated how high they can jump. My corn still look to be a couple weeks from ready, not one of the peaches and cream corn took. Wegmans corn has been straight trash, didn't check them at the store and over an inch was still seeds. 2 of my chickens have started laying,up to a dozen over the last week

[M4wdFab]

watched the deer several times walk around the fence and be confused/scared by it.  also, there would be tons of hoof prints in the moist ground.  i dont think they have been in there.  Deer also just love the sweet corn leaves which they ate last year in when it wasn't fenced in.  this time something cheewed at the base to tower over all the plants, then ate the ears, left the leaves. 


corn was only 2-3' tall and just starting to make ears about the size of a roll of pennies

[luvmyxj]

Interesting, Google says raccoons or possibly possums eat it like that

[M4wdFab]

i guess a raccon could climb the fence, but dont think they could get through the 2x4" fenc holes, thats why i assumed it was bunnies, which i have seen around the property. 

i got a bunch of butternut squash getting big and if they touch those before i harvest its war!

[luvmyxj]

You can borrow my dog ,he just caught one of the rabbits around my yard last week, heard it squeal just before he snapped it's neck, he's so God dam fast

[M4wdFab]

MCWA sent me a nice note asking me to double check i dont have any water leaks on my property, as my water usage of 19000 gallons for this quarter was about 5 times that of last years usage

haha nice


no thats me just spraying 90$ in water into the dirt this summer

[luvmyxj]

Lol, if we were in Cali you'd be going to jail for using that much water. You jinxed me, 2 days after something ate your corn mine got wiped out. Up to 4 eggs a day now, I can't keep up, already given away like 3 dozen

[etk300ex]

you're going to be investigated for growing pot in the barn soon lol

[mr.mindless]

how were your results this year?

We ended up wasting the second half of the cucumber harvest. pickles from the first half are edible now but haven't cracked a jar. did get into the beets and they were great. carrots were similartly overwhelming. planted WAY too much celery and only used a bit of it. Lots of learning in year one.

[M4wdFab]

zukini and squash did well. 

bunnies pretty much ate my beets and all the corn

lettace was a complete waste and tastes like dirt no matter how much you wash. 



sprinklers and increased fence was really my progress this year. 

I plan in next few weeks to bush hog, rake, till, and cover with plastic and tires for the winter this time to try and reduce weeds for next year

[etk300ex]

We had tons of sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes and probably 50 lbs of sweet potatoes.  Not much else did well. Strawberry harvest was very poor, lettuce was garbage as well.

[M4wdFab]

fresh potting soil in two window baskets and green onions, radishes planted.  i have one radish or beet that is like over a foot tall that i have kept planted over the winter for fun and its still going strong. no idea whats under the soil but its looking great. 

[M4wdFab]

having my last squash as part of dinner tonight.  pretty cool its sat on my counter since the fall, and tastes great just as they did when fresh picked.  ill have to keep more of them this year from next winter.