O.T. garden vegtables - how's it growing this year ?

One of the things I enjoy most about summer is when you get the fresh vegetables from the garden, did some steamed yellow squash tonight and it was excellent. Nothing like that garden fresh tomato too, my patch is so thick I can't walk into it, going to have to make some more room next year, did some eggplant, bell peppers, sweet basil, oregano, and thyme latter 3 to go with all the tomatoes, sure makes one appreciate a garden, nothing else like it.

Watermelon and cantelope are coming too... lack of bees have left a lot of flowers unpollenated in the cantelope though. Pumpkins are beginning to bloom and the 2nd patch of sweet corn is just beginning to tassel, Iochief @ 6 feet already and tassels just beginning to emerge.

Peas didn't do for crap this year.

Gonna move the garden from the side yard to behind the shop where I can get full sun all day and triple size next year.

I think the plants did well so far, small and compact, compared to the patch I was doing, moved it due to the critters, fence was falling apart etc. but needing the room, I'd like to start another similar in size again, one I can use my tractor on.

The ole 850 is deserving of some restoration, but has made a great utility tractor, grew up on a pre-65 4000, so always had an eye for these. The LPG arrangement may very well be aftermarket, it's an Impco Vaporizer & fuel system not sure who or when that was done, not sure if the serial number would shed any light on the LPG conversion, do know the head for the motor is a different part number. Oil stays clean for a long time, has not been changed since '04 and is still very clean, but ought to get changed this year. A hoe would be handy for many light tasks needing to be done here, those arms were actually on the tractor when I got it, so it did have a hoe on it, explains why the loader frame was broke by the mounts, I use the lower hoe arms to span a bar, that holds the 3 pt lift arms when the counterweight is on, no strain on the hydraulics.

It certainly worked well in those soils with a 2 bottom, and my 7 foot discs, it was turned once, then disc'd, and repeated, lot of fun to do a patch that size

Peppers are really producing super, but the tomatoes never do really fruit out very well for me for some reason.

Been eating a lot of squash and have a lot of pumpkins coming on. I really like a big pumpkin patch with a lot of different types in it! The field corn is just almost ready for roasting ears here.

Nothing like Mom's cooking when it's right out of the garden!

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Nothing like ones garden, an area I cultivated and planted grass on in '04 for the neighbor was a garden for 40 years, soil was real nice, no rocks, deep dark loam, lots of organic matter, would love to plant there again

That patch of dirt was deep, the ole 2 bottom is a wreck, that needs a tail wheel and another coulter, it wanted to sink to the bottom, I did not turn up any of the lighter color soil, which is glacial till, gravel/clay, lots of bones, Joe's old garden for many years, was real easy to work up, was planted with grass, rye cover crop came up from the rye mulch I used the previous fall, I will have to duplicate something similar, not sure what he did to get it like that, the lack of rocks is suprising.

Jam packed, bell peppers only ones shaded out, right amount of plants for me, will have to expand next year, all planted in holes filled with my compost with dried blood and bone meal, mulched with old rotten hay. Photo is a little dark, tomatoes have taken over in the back

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