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I like to practice Bushcraft skills and have started fire many different ways. My Advice to all,,,,,make a Bic lighter part of your daily carry in your pocket or purse.

I just thought of an idea to calm him down. Put on some camo, get your best kitchen knife. Hide in your yard and when he comes in..............cut his Nuts off.

Be careful there Bon, When they get aggressive like that they could be a problem.

You like "mountain oysters"??? I will bring them up if I can get them!!
 
He also ripped some small branches down, wrecked havic on one of our tall grasses.
 
My brother & sister in law saw him Thursday night when they were going home from the funeral home. She said he was running on the road & berm towards them. She thought he was going to charge their car. She said I wasn't kidding when I said he is a big one.
 
They have elk, deer, coyotes, and a whole lot of other critters in their yard or neighbors all the time.

I just thought of an idea to calm him down. Put on some camo, get your best kitchen knife. Hide in your yard and when he comes in..............cut his Nuts off.

Yeah, I know. This one makes me nervous. I don't think I will be getting close to him to get pics. He shows up around 9ish in town & does his walk through.

Be careful there Bon, When they get aggressive like that they could be a problem.

Camera skills aside,,,,, Nice Bull!

Got some really nice cauliflower and banana peppers so far. A few cukes. Beans are OK but not like last year when I ran out of freezer space and had to can them. 

So far I've done 35 pints of yellow wax beans and we've cut and vacuum sealed and froze 20 dozen ears of corn.  A lot of our stuffing peppers have soft spots on them and we had to toss them, but there's still some looking good for stuffing.  Cantaloupe are doing well. Potatoes like those above. 

Here are some potato's that we pulled up so far. They started on their own in the garden and we just left them grow. There must have been a few from last years garden still in the ground. Probably about 3 to 5 pound there are a few big ones. Probably should have waited to pull them later but we wanted to see if we had any and wanted some to cook up here this week. If we were going to keep them we would have put them in the basement where the temp is just right to harden the skin.
 
A few are purple potato's also. I am kind of anxious to see how the bin has been doing.

Thats not an elk,,,its a Moose.

Wiener Dog started barking outside, the cow came back and was eating apples again and just looking at the dog. I had Wiener tied up just in case she did come back. I unhooked her and she ran in the house ...wussy dog!!!

Nice pics! You keep em up your way Bon. For such a majestic animal , they sure have ugly bums.

we never have any luck with onions. I may need some pointers for next year.     My peppers are the same steelnut very small plants but they are yielding peppers. Nothing like the previous years where I have huge plants and got arywhere from 10 to 15 plants on each plant over the season. Now it is still early so they may perk up.
 
well junk the gate to the garden is unlocked.
 
Anyone else hany pics.  Rank63 any pics on your end. especially those potato's. We will have to see if it worked. I am thinking my yield wont be to big condidering I let threm grow to big before sadding dirt. but they spurted up so fast it was hard to keep up with.

Go with a high nitrogen fertilizer for the beginning of the onion's growth and then a high potassium fertilizer when the bulbs start to form. We dump our wood ashes in the onion patch as well. 

Ripe Tomatos????Whats your address,,I will bring zappia bread and mayo.

I did the same thing we had some heavy duty pallets that were being thrown away so I tore them apart and used them. I did post about this last fall or in the winter I believe about making these bins it may still be on GoDuBois I will have to look. I just filled up with mushroom compost I had left over from last year and also some soil just laying around form old flower pots etc.
 
The plants are around 40" tall right now as big as the corn my wife has planted. I do have to add another board on today as you can see and finish filling it up to the board you see now. I am out of soil so may have to stop here in a bit and get some more compost I think. I could just buy bags of soil but I would need a lot as this bin is 42"x42" square.
 
If you look you can see potato's outside  the bin that sprung up long before we planted these and they are only about 24"tall
 
as you can tell I hate weeds also and weeding so the upper garden with the potatoes has newspaper layers with mushroom compost on it and the lower garden the one with the tomato's has weed cloth and mushrrom compost- horse manure on it. It may be the manure or the rain is all I can figure as to why my plants are small. Althoug since I put my pipe in the ground to support them and it has been sunny they sure have perked up quite a bit.

Anytime I cut anything I dip the knife in the bleach so as not to carry bacteria from one plant to another. If no one is looking I toss a bit of the diluted bleach on the cut stem. No reference for the latter but what the heck. 
You do know that if you crossed a weed with a tomato plant you would get the worst of both plants and it would grow all over the yard and be impossible to get rid of. They have crossed a tomato and a potato though.  I looked up how to do it once but never tried it. One day when I get some time. 
 
http://downtoearthgardenclub.org/2013/12/tom-tato/

lavender,,what is the purpose of that? And why has no one crossed a weed with a tomato plant? What a crop we could have!

lavender,,what is the purpose of that? And why has no one crossed a weed with a tomato plant? What a crop we could have!

Plants in raised beds are OK at best, lagging behind normal growth.  Peppers and tomatoes in open garden did not appreciate growing in a  pond and are stunted....now adding some humus and fertilizer and spraying to deter blight.  If this continues, will plant rice next year.

Things are picking up a bit. Broccoli has developed soft rot which means few side shoots. (Keeping a jar of bleach in the garden.)  Cauliflower is OK but the heads are small. What cabbage that didn't get root rot from all the rain is doing fine. All summer squashes and cuckes are just starting to develop. Plants are a bit retarded. Kale was great and a new crop of lettuce is just starting. Got beets for the first time in 5 years. I switched types and used a different fertilizer which may have helped. Corn looks great but tomato plants are small for this time of year. Green beans are just OK but yellow beans are stunted. Eggplant and peppers are doing great which is unusual. Onions and peas are doing well. Tomantillos and winter squash are super. 
Parts of the garden just were flooded with all the rain and crops that don't like a lot of moisture weren't happy. Parts of the garden that drained better fared better. Weeds are happiest of all. 

I've been reading a lot about hoop house growing this past year.  The next garden will be under cloth or screening, especially broccoli.  Keeps the varmints out too.
 
The Master Gardeners are also going to attempt a winter garden with carrots, different greens and beets.  There will be a trial garden at the DuBois Community Garden courtesy of the BUDS Gardeners also.

Tomatoes, zucchini, and onions doing very well.   We used to have a huge garden but have downsized greatly.  Getting too old but still enjoy  "dabbling".