What's Growing in the Garden
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We might be talking about two different things. I didn't make myself clear. I have a engine oil fill cap (two nubs on cap) that I put in SAE 30. Just behind the engine is another fill cap (same thing). I assumed this was oil for the gear box or for the tines (chain).
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I've got a "Champion" brand rear tine tiller from Menards and it uses 85W-140 in the rear gearbox.
You will find "gear lube" in the same area of stores as the engine oil, but it will usually be in a different shaped bottle.
BTW, if you find that you are using/losing oil from the gearbox, go through and tighten all the bolts holding it together. I've found they loosen over time and leak a little.
Even Walmart carries it in stores.
You will find "gear lube" in the same area of stores as the engine oil, but it will usually be in a different shaped bottle.
BTW, if you find that you are using/losing oil from the gearbox, go through and tighten all the bolts holding it together. I've found they loosen over time and leak a little.
Even Walmart carries it in stores.
This is my Dad's tiller I inherited and have only used it a little. I usually break up the ground first of the year with my front tine tiller. Until the pin holding the depth stake in the rear tine tiller dropped out. I did not know RT tillers could did that deep. So no need for the front tine. With that said, I'm fixing the minor things on it and making sure the lubricant levels are up. Never messed with the second fill port.
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I guess spring is here.
Apricot is blooming:
As are the forsythia:
Apricot is blooming:
As are the forsythia:
We have a flower bed below the kitchen window that has our solids collection box for the sewer in it along with a couple yuccas and a couple other bushes. It had a lot of daisies (which were nice because the deer left them alone and they grew back every year). But grass got in there and grew between the flowers and bushes etc etc. Got so thick we couldn't control it any longer so I dug it all out. Like cutting sod. Two trips to the dump and a half yard of top soil and we're now ready to replant something. Early here too still. There's a butte just west of us called Black Butte and the local lore is if there's still snow on Black Butte it's too early to plant.
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All the fruit trees are moving along. Thankfully the extended forecast temps are all above critical freeze thresholds.
Pears:
Apples:
Cherries:
Pears:
Apples:
Cherries:
Yeh, my pear made it through. My apples haven't bloomed yet. I did not let most of them, the new ones I cut them back to espalier them. The old one, has not bloomed for some reason. Noticed the pawpaws were just starting to bud, and the fig trees are starting from the tips this year and have the startings of some breba crop, with very little die back. Maybe I'll get some figs this year. The japanese persimmon, has not started moving yet.
March 2, 2025 the mesquite trees budded out. The onions are starting to bulb, lettuce is starting to bolt, carrots are ready for the kids to pick Easter, approx (I lost count) 150 tomato plants in the ground and about 30 more that I don’t know what to do with (I gave away about 80)…, 30 or so bell pepper plants in the ground, green beans are up, yellow squash and zucchini is up, Cushaw is up, sweet corn is up… Sweet potatoes are in the ground but just sitting there and red potatoes need hilling… We got 3.5” of rain and 3 acres needs mowing. Gotta put a french drain going down the hill so my lovely bride won’t get her feet wet in the seep spring that has developed right where I didn’t need or want it. I’ve got some rose cuttings starting and some hibiscus as well…
I actually had a little time during the rainy days to clear all the stuff piled on my work benches so maybe, just maybe I can so some woodworking someday… Got the boat running… Dang, I need to be younger so I have more time...
Alan
I actually had a little time during the rainy days to clear all the stuff piled on my work benches so maybe, just maybe I can so some woodworking someday… Got the boat running… Dang, I need to be younger so I have more time...
Alan
Saw this Palo Verde today on the East Side, about 15 miles east of me. Saw another 10-12 of them same area. My neighborhood does not have any buds yet, yet they are all in the desert. ………. Nubs
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Got the posts set for my double "T" trellis going up for the red raspberries. Black locust at 36" deep, these will outlive me.
How tall? Post a picture when done, please. I could have sworn I had black locust posts for my grape vines, but they broke off. Small diameter with a lot of sap wood. Vines are gone anyway.
Aren't those auger type post hole diggers great? I only go two feet down with mine. Short handle. Easier than than other style.
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They are about 64" above soil line. The guide from NC State says lower cross piece at 24" high and 18" - 24" wide. The top cross is 40" above that and 22-24" wide. I'll probably go a little wider at ~30" for the lower and 36-40" for the top. Going wider as I have so much sprouting apart from the center and I just can't make myself pull all those sprouts.
In our soils, the auger types are the only way to go. Black silt loam soil 30"+ deep. Just started getting into a little bit of yellow clay at the bottom of these. No rocks at all unless you get into some eroded hillsides and all clay.
In our soils, the auger types are the only way to go. Black silt loam soil 30"+ deep. Just started getting into a little bit of yellow clay at the bottom of these. No rocks at all unless you get into some eroded hillsides and all clay.
Sorry to tell ya Tim, them thare posts are already DED.
I've started my own squash plants in approximately 2" pots. It was old see and to save space, I put two seeds in a pot in case one didn't germinate. All did. Now I'm wondering when if ever, I can separate the two and repot. Is it easier to divide now or wait until there is more root development? Or just plant in the garden as a pair? Regardless, I want to transplant into 4" pots and let them grow until they're big enough for the garden. Timing for the 4" pots? Now or later?
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I would wait a few days, maybe up to a week. Those look fairly new and need a little bit of time to get a more root mass.
Speaking loosely of a 'natural garden', has anyone in the Midwest found morels yet? Guy on StL Craig'sList is already selling them. I'm due East of StL, but it seems about a week too early for the main flush to start.
Yes, only 3-4" tall. I tried to start everything before March this year, but that didn't happen.