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  1. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    50 acres of tomatoes is a whole other level. We raise 40 +\- different crops on 500 acres but only about 200 of that is in produce. The rest is in hay and grain.
  2. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Planted in three stages 4 weeks apart. sent my last pallet out November 10 last year
  3. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Of tomatoes? About 2.5 +\- about 7k plants
  4. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Sending out about 40 cases a day.. hope to be up to 75 by next week
  5. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    So far so good. It’s not so much the long hours, the 7 days a week gets old by September tho. I don’t know how the dairy guys do it 7 days year round.
  6. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Thanks, packed out another 40 cases today they are coming in nicely.
  7. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Shudder Sweet 100 take tooooo damn long to pick can’t make any money on them
  8. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    pumpkins brought in about 40 cases of nice cukes today started picking tomatoes this week
  9. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    :idk: Whatchagonnado? actually we direct seed zucchini on plastic beds. The holes get made with a water wheel planter then the seeds are dropped and covered by hand. So spacing is only off if one doesn’t come up. ( average is 5 per row ) I will admit to my rows sometimes being wavy and I blame...
  10. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Picked 111 cases of zucchini outa this piece on Friday. Picked 110 cases today. It’s 8 beds 350’ Long each.
  11. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Started on garlic, nice crop so far this year
  12. phatfarmerbob

    St. Louis couple who brandished guns being investigated after clash with protesters

    Ok here’s one. Mob of protesters comes down your street. Being a country loving patriot you have old glory flying in the front yard. Mob enters your yard, takes down the flag and is attempting to set fire to it. WWYD ? I know this isn’t what happened to them but I think it’s an appropriate...
  13. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Giant pumpkin ( just playing around with these not to sell.)Early potatoes ( white, red and Yukon gold)first sweetcorn looks like 3 weeks
  14. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    no that’s what you want ! Small pepper plant is better. You not eating leaves your eating peppers
  15. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Here ya go... probably could get a used one for about 18k
  16. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Yup we have 2 hose reels. A few miles of 6” underground with hydrants. And probably 10 miles worth of aluminum 4 and 5” field set pipe in 30’ lengths. 6, 6 cylinder diesel John deer turbo pumps as well as several drip systems. your not in this game without irrigation
  17. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Aphids...
  18. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    All of two weeks.. last rain was .5” were over 6” behind for the year
  19. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    I hit 100 hours last week... I’m really ready for some rain...
  20. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Looks like bacterial spot.. get some copper on those plants and all the pepper plants cause it will spread
  21. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    I only do wholesale...
  22. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Yup. They don’t magically appear on the grocery store shelf...
  23. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Some more tomatoe plants. With flowers
  24. phatfarmerbob

    Shed build

    Yup!! @cgrutt this is where you should be getting material believe me
  25. phatfarmerbob

    Increased media attention to the "boogaloo"

    Haha my son has worn a Hawaiian shirt for his school picture since 2nd grade. Wife actually bought kids small through men’s medium so he could always have the same one
  26. phatfarmerbob

    PROTEST IN SYRACUSE**

    I will say when we we’re dating she was a bartender. One night I shit you not she leaps over the bar and drags a grown man out the front door by his collar for spitting on, in her words “ my motherfucking floor”
  27. phatfarmerbob

    PROTEST IN SYRACUSE**

    I have always said if we end up in a shtf life I’ll end up dying, not from starvation or fending off looters, or some simple infection But from my wife running her mouth to the wrong person and me needing to come to her defense and getting taken out.
  28. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    I’m in the Hudson Valley west side of the Hudson
  29. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Tomatoes are in let’s hope the cold is done 2600 plants for the first planting, another 2600 seeded in the greenhouse, 900 waiting to be seeded June 15... also first planting of eggplant, cabbage and kale in. Peas are up potatoes are up and first planting of sweet corn is up( second is sprouted...
  30. phatfarmerbob

    The Great Depression 2.0 - Are You Ready?

    Somebody’s gota whisper this in the big mans ear. It would be truly epic.
  31. phatfarmerbob

    Mother and Journalists arrested 2 days in a row for protesting : NYPD

    I gota say I’m pretty freaked out by that backpack speaker thing barking directives. Same with those talking drones.. that is some crazy sky net shit right there. Gives me the hebe gebes.
  32. phatfarmerbob

    SHTF Communications

    Is that 3rd story? I fucking hate ladders...
  33. phatfarmerbob

    Making Bread W/O An Oven - Ideas?

    @S&W Fan where did you get that cooling rack? I like it
  34. phatfarmerbob

    Security Camera Thread - Home Solution Write Up

    yea my thoughts too. But I also don’t want to come home everyday and think to myself “fuck that looks like shit”
  35. phatfarmerbob

    Security Camera Thread - Home Solution Write Up

    Here’s what I got... I hate it ,looks horrible
  36. phatfarmerbob

    Defensive posture changed?

    Spike strips are great, till the guy whose tire you popped burns down your barn with a couple hundred K worth of hay and straw inside....
  37. phatfarmerbob

    Defensive posture changed?

    Well with everyone not working, the assholes on 4wheelers have really been tearing up the fields. tore up a 20 acre piece of oats we planted a couple weeks ago. And toured through 6 hay fields. People have no respect....
  38. phatfarmerbob

    Let's play a game. Show us something you don't think anyone else here has.

    KS7 was at PSA in Greenville and it was on sale. Couldn’t resist. Went to buy it and the clerk took my license, came back and said he couldn’t sell any firearms to nys residents. I almost didn’t cause I was mad but it was 50$ off so I ordered it online. This color too, kinda looks cool.
  39. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    It’s all German white hardneck. That’s the small field. I planted 1100 pounds of seed last October.. I’ll grab a pic if the big field later
  40. phatfarmerbob

    Let's play a game. Show us something you don't think anyone else here has.

    Hey , cheap insurance. I keep 10 doses of this too.
  41. phatfarmerbob

    Let's play a game. Show us something you don't think anyone else here has.

    I don’t know what the cost is but it’s useless if it’s not calibrated
  42. phatfarmerbob

    Let's play a game. Show us something you don't think anyone else here has.

    Sent mine to get recalibrated. Need to send it again it’s been 15 yrs
  43. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Start them they don’t need light to germinate
  44. phatfarmerbob

    2020 Gardening Thread

    Garlic looks good
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