How Does Your Garden Grow??????

[Roger A. Shrubber]

well fuck, no wonder my little bean plants kept getting eaten....
enough slugs to....well, i don't know what the hell you could do with them.....the dish of beer method sure seems to work, though. gonna set a dish out every night that it doesn't rain.

 

[too larry]

well fuck, no wonder my little bean plants kept getting eaten....
View attachment 4138756 enough slugs to....well, i don't know what the hell you could do with them.....the dish of beer method sure seems to work, though. gonna set a dish out every night that it doesn't rain.

That is a lot of slugs. I put out bait in my weed gardens, but haven't ever done it in the veggie garden.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

when you get up to my elevation here, it's considered a sub tropical rain forest. while it might seem dry to me right now , we average over 60 inches of precipitation a year, which is twice the national average.
so yeah, we got slugs, and snails, and salamanders, and all kinds of shit. the biggest salamanders in the world come from here. i think....we got hellbenders, i think they're the biggest.

 

[too larry]

when you get up to my elevation here, it's considered a sub tropical rain forest. while it might seem dry to me right now , we average over 60 inches of precipitation a year, which is twice the national average.
so yeah, we got slugs, and snails, and salamanders, and all kinds of shit. the biggest salamanders in the world come from here. i think....we got hellbenders, i think they're the biggest.
View attachment 4138787

Damn. We have little salamanders here that make real good fishbait. {I can't think what they are called. Kind of purple with spots} Would hate to see the fish that would bite that.

 

[too larry]

Ours look kind of like this.

 

[too larry]

We have a mole here called a salamander, so it makes things confusing.

 

[too larry]

I have mounds of dirt all over the farm from salamanders.

http://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/hort/2016/09/23/is-it-a-salamander-or-pocket-gopher/

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

Ours look kind of like this.

we got those too, and all kinds of lizards and snakes, mostly non poisonous, but we do have timber rattlers, copperheads, and water moccasins. in ten years here i've seen two rattlers, two copperheads, one water moccasin, and about ten thousand grass and gopher and black snakes. and frogs and toads....this is an international biosphere reserve. so it irritates me highly that redneck assholes come for vacation and seem to save up all their road trash till they get here, then throw it out.....at least it gives drunk drivers a way to work off their community service

 

[too larry]

we got those too, and all kinds of lizards and snakes, mostly non poisonous, but we do have timber rattlers, copperheads, and water moccasins. in ten years here i've seen two rattlers, two copperheads, one water moccasin, and about ten thousand grass and gopher and black snakes. and frogs and toads....this is an international biosphere reserve. so it irritates me highly that redneck assholes come for vacation and seem to save up all their road trash till they get here, then throw it out.....at least it gives drunk drivers a way to work off their community service

Got to love the tourists. We deal with that in spades down here in Florida.

It's crazy how woods a few miles apart can be so different. Where I live, I have never seen a copperhead. Yet here at work, 7-8 sky miles away, we have tons of them. And my main hiking spot is about 8 miles from the farm in another direction, and they are so thick there I've had them in my camp several times. I guess it's the wetness. At work and at my hiking spot, there is lots of swamp nearby. It's sandy and dry at the farm.

 

[thumper60]

human plow today haha 24 san marzanos going there

 

[too larry]

human plow today haha 24 san marzanos going thereView attachment 4138858

Looking good. It does feel good to do things like push a plow.

 

[blake9999]

My tomatoes won't ripen, they just getting bigger and bigger.

 

[too larry]

My tomatoes won't ripen, they just getting bigger and bigger.

Stop bragging. lol

I don't have any tomatoes yet. Or didn't yesterday morning. This time of year, stuff happens fast.

 

[blake9999]

But But I want to eat them NOW!

 

[too larry]

But But I want to eat them NOW!

 

[xtsho]

Oh man. Last year I had some huge Mortgage Lifters that made for great fried green tomato's. I don't know if I like them better green and fried or ripe and sliced on a BLT. And speaking of BLT's. One of the best sandwiches in the world. I have a twist and make a BLTO. The O would be sliced red onion.

 

[SAMMYB913]

Just saw my first flower on my fat cherry tomatoes :0) banana & chilli peppers 2 1\2 feet tall :0)

 

[SAMMYB913]

We have a mole here called a salamander, so it makes things confusing.

We have moles here too I know the feeling .:0(

 

[SAMMYB913]

well fuck, no wonder my little bean plants kept getting eaten....
View attachment 4138756 enough slugs to....well, i don't know what the hell you could do with them.....the dish of beer method sure seems to work, though. gonna set a dish out every night that it doesn't rain.

I feel ya , need to get some Southern AG - Thuricide , I lost count I know I've caught over 20 between my peppers, tomatoes & corn is the worst cause they also get those little guys which I've also found like 4 of them gangbanging one of my purple broccoli plants, If I found them when I was tilling to prep for my garden I just tossed em over the neighbors privacy fence lmao

 

[SAMMYB913]

My tomatoes won't ripen, they just getting bigger and bigger.

I know the feeling Im waiting for my chilli peppers to turn red , My first Banana pepper just keeps getting fatter , I hate to pick it want to wait for the rest to catch up