Recent content by phatfarmerbob

I’ve been a busy boy. Here’s a couple pics.. be back in the fall .. Godspeed brothers

lol last couple years they went to chi-raq believe it or not… who’d thought there was a market for that in Chicago of all places… I didn’t send them myself I sold them to a re-wholesaler. I don’t have those connections (and don’t want them tbh)

Planting doesn’t really make your hands smell. Cutting the scapes does tho. That’s all I can smell for about two weeks when we’re doing that job

We use a water wheel planter that pokes a hole in the plastic and ground underneath bit every clove is put in by hand by riding on the back of said planter, then covered by hand by someone else walking behind and reaching into the hole and pulling dirt over the clove. Hardneck garlic needs to be...

lol just a few… 1750 pounds worth

Garlic is lookin nice

You have plenty of time, here in the Hudson valley I don’t start anything untill april5 then I reseed tomatoes and peppers may 10 then one last tomato planting albeit a small one june 5

Just get the all American 30 quart pressure canner and thank me later. 14 quarts at a time is the only way to go. Lots of ppl water bath tomato sauce and don’t die … I won’t do it tho. If you want me to be honest I would take my harvest right freeze drier over canning as long as you feel...

I’m liking Vivik for VP.. not everything but he’s growing on me. Lots of plain truth…

Thanks ! Got 100 acres of field corn to bring in then Christmas trees. Then hopefully a nice Puerto Rico beach… been going 7 days a week since May , im ready for some down time. Was a good season despite the excessive rain. Probably made money lol. 6 months from now I’ll be starting all over...

that’s a wrap. Picked these off a couple days ago. Got them in the ripening room. Had 25.6° last night. Pretty cold for the first frost…

This is my hill!! Lol

Come and take it!

@Saltwater60 You check your PH? I bet you need lime …if the ph is off the roots can’t take up the nutrients properly, no matter how much is there.

First planting of corn is in , some potatoes planted (about 3800# of seed potato) that’s half. Waiting on Yukon and Red seed. Ran irrigation on a half acre of garlic that’s on gravelly ground because it’s dryer than a popcorn fart right now. ( the rest is on low heavy ground and should be fine)...