GreenHighlander
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Google Grand Etang wind speeds lol
How Does Your Garden Grow??????
- Thread starter Larry {the} Gardener
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Sour Wreck
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damn, wind turbines will take a beating there.
GreenHighlander
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With some of the highest winds in North America everyone here was wondering WTF they were thinking. What is even crazier is how many years it stayed up.
The place very regularly gets hurricane force winds. Not really ideal turbine country. The best are the rich fucks who tried to build houses there only to have them blow away lol
Cheers
thumper60
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couple hundred miles south of u,plenty of cod round here,even got some salmom starting to run a few rivers all is not lost
too larry
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The food web went crazy on the Grand Banks once the cod and the other bottom dwelling fish were gone. All the smaller fish and invertebrates blew up. Now shrimp and crab fisheries are worth more than the cod fishery was before it collapsed. But it's only been 40 years. And you still don't know how it will shake out.
thumper60
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theres still tons of cod out there,freshoff the dock 5 bucks a pound boneless now haddock that different story, shrimp have been closed down for a few yrs now not enough stock out there
Sour Wreck
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2 nights predicted in the mid 30s next week here. still can't put peppers/strawberries out.
think i will go look at yellow tomato seedlings today
farmerfischer
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Any you guys ever grow pumpkins indoors?
Roger A. Shrubber
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you better have a big indoors...punkins take the hell over, grow several vines 20+ feet long if you give em good conditions
farmerfischer
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I have a couple in the widow here and they are starting to bud.. they're only a foot or so tall..
Just trying to get a head start on things for spring.. I've tried to grow them for three years now with no success.. damn deer,rabbits and weather keep fucking them up.. BUT! that shit ain't stopping me from trying it again..lol..
Roger A. Shrubber
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the first bunch of buds hardly ever produce fruit, i think they're all usually female, you have to let them start to put out flowers again to get males flowers
grew a couple of nice ones last year and the damn bears ate them while they were sitting on my porch waiting to get carved
grew a couple of nice ones last year and the damn bears ate them while they were sitting on my porch waiting to get carved
farmerfischer
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The male flowers are the taller ones right? There isn't much bees around here so I'm thinking I'll have to hand pollenize ..
thumper60
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I use qtip on my early tomato wait till u got a few flowers the flower with the stem is male,pumpkins need huge roots an tons of water to grow fruit plus full sun
too larry
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Never with pumpkin. I tried to grow cucumbers inside once. The were climbing the freaking walls. I would try to keep the viney stuff outside.
too larry
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Roger A. Shrubber
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fortunately we just have black bears here, but we have a buttload of them. they're like giant rats, get in the trash and spread it all over the damn place. every couple of years one breaks into one of the candy stores downtown and goes into a diabetic coma
https://www.knoxnews.com/videos/life/family/2017/11/01/black-bear-visits-gatlinburg-candy-shop/107231456/
https://www.knoxnews.com/videos/life/family/2017/11/01/black-bear-visits-gatlinburg-candy-shop/107231456/
too larry
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The black bear is all we have too. In late 2002 when we were trying to decide where on our 40 acres we were going to build, we discovered we had a bee tree, and we had a bear. There were fresh claw marks in the bee tree. They were still white, like it had just happened. That is where we decided to build. Never saw the bear.
About the only time I've ever seen a bear face to face, I got down on my knees and thanked the Good Lord it was an angry mamma bear and not the Sheriff and a dozen of his deputies rushing me through the brush. I was checking on a patch a couple miles into some timber company land. I was down on one knee in the middle of the patch when she mock charged, beating the palmettos. I took off in a sprint, leaving my .22 propped up against a tree and pulling my hamsting after abut 25 yards. I just knew I was busted. But when she did it again, I got a whiff of her. I did thank the Lord it a bear. I went back and got my rifle and started limping back to my truck.
About the only time I've ever seen a bear face to face, I got down on my knees and thanked the Good Lord it was an angry mamma bear and not the Sheriff and a dozen of his deputies rushing me through the brush. I was checking on a patch a couple miles into some timber company land. I was down on one knee in the middle of the patch when she mock charged, beating the palmettos. I took off in a sprint, leaving my .22 propped up against a tree and pulling my hamsting after abut 25 yards. I just knew I was busted. But when she did it again, I got a whiff of her. I did thank the Lord it a bear. I went back and got my rifle and started limping back to my truck.
too larry
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My cousin down in Wewa is in the honey business. He fights with them on a daily basis. They have to run really hot electric fences around the hives. They run them off of solar powered batteries. They do the tupalo honey, so the hives are carried down the rivers deep into the swamps.
Sour Wreck
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Picked up a yellow pear Tomato plant today. Low acid, works better for me.
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