HillBilly Jeff's 2014 Adventure - Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

 

Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.

 

Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.

 

Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.

 

[Jeff H]

So did the turkeys freeze there? hard to believe that they could move around up to their necks in snow.
 
chicken looks great. I'm hungry now.

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

So did the turkeys freeze there? hard to believe that they could move around up to their necks in snow.
 
chicken looks great. I'm hungry now.

 
Those are turkey decoys and the 4 legged chicken is squirrel.....AKA Limb chicken.

 

[Jeff H]

 
Those are turkey decoys and the 4 legged chicken is squirrel.....AKA Limb chicken.

 
I guess I should have known, but not being a hunter, I didn't even think about decoys.
 
hmmm squirrel. Hope they have bigger squirrel up north than we have here. It would take a bunch of our grey squirrel legs to make a meal.

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

 
I guess I should have known, but not being a hunter, I didn't even think about decoys.
 
hmmm squirrel. Hope they have bigger squirrel up north than we have here. It would take a bunch of our grey squirrel legs to make a meal.

 
 
Got some gray squirrels getting closer to the farm, still about a mile away though.  Fox squirrels are about twice the size of the grays.  Here is one I picked up a few years back.  I should have mounted it...people have nicknamed him SquirrelZilla.
 
 

 

[maximumcapsicum]

Winter looks brutal. Too much. Atlanta would be abandoned. We'd need a New New South. Why do you people live in cold places again?

One of these days I'm heading back to Delhi.

Transplant looks like it took pretty well. Gonna be a spicy summer! Keep on growin HJeff!

 

[MeatHead1313]

 
 
Got some gray squirrels getting closer to the farm, still about a mile away though.  Fox squirrels are about twice the size of the grays.  Here is one I picked up a few years back.  I should have mounted it...people have nicknamed him SquirrelZilla.
 
 

That is one well fed squirrel! Puts the one's I've seen down here to shame!

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

That is one well fed squirrel! Puts the one's I've seen down here to shame!

 
 
Its probably bigger than the deer you have down there lol.  Actually, I had heard that Florida deer are small.  Don't know for certain.

 

[MeatHead1313]

 
 
Its probably bigger than the deer you have down there lol.  Actually, I had heard that Florida deer are small.  Don't know for certain.

Highly possible judging by the size of some of the deer we get at work to process lol. 

 

[Devv]

Yeah, I was looking at the "turkeys" and thinking, they're not walking through that snow, nothings disturbed. Would really be cool if they were live!
 
That's one FAT squirrel! We have greys here, and they're fat, as they along with the birds raid the dogfood bowl. And yes there is a law of nature about the closer to the equator the smaller the animals are. A 100LB doe is a huge doe here, my biggest ever buck, body wise yielded 85lbs of meat.
 
If you get that rain your place is going to be soup!

 

[Jeff H]

That is a big squirrel. I haven't seen those around here (suburbia).

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Hit 50 degrees outside today.  Loving it.  Snow settled 5 inches lower on the turkeys in the garden.  
 
The Tepin x Lemon Drop (I call Temon) had a volunteer growing in the pot and when I potted up to the gallon container yesterday I was able to save it out.  Now I have two mystery peppers growing.  Should be either a TS Yellow or a Burgundy.
 
Cut back on the number of peppers I am growing this year that I have never tasted before.  Too many times in the past I have put in lots of new peppers only to be disappointed in them.  Of course, I found a lot of great new peppers that way too.  Every new hab I am growing this year I have tried.  
 
Anyone else kind of shy away from growing too many new varieties each season?  Maybe a limit to a couple new each time?
 
Sort of thinking about adding the peach hab back on the list this year if I have room in the starter tray.  It was a perfect hab for me last year in aroma, taste, and no bitter after taste, but with the other habs I am growing I don't think I need to grow it.  But there is always room for a container here and there
 
My chard is growing slow once it popped up, but it is holding me off of starting peppers and onions before March 1st.  I find it odd that the first bright lights chard up is the only one that hasn't put out a set of trues yet.
 
 

 
 
 
HBJ that I broke off most of the root ball is doing better today.  Not sure what my total count on these plants are, but I need to go into the season with 15 and I think I am short of that number.  
 
New project set up for this year are rain barrels.  Seems really straight forward.  The back of the truck garage has a slope to the ground.  I will put in an overflow spout and run it down slope to another barrel for times of heavy rain.  Once I get around to putting gutters on my work shop, I will have some rain barrels there as well.
 
For my drip irrigation for this year, I have a question.  Is there a max length of hose going off the main line down the rows?  I read somewhere that it is 15 feet. I was thinking a main line  going east and west (longest distance) and then lines running north down the rows.  Off of those lines I would have my 1/4 inch drip lines running to each plant.  
 
Enjoy the weather, spring has sprung...until the weekend

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

What a great sauce Greg.  This is going on the walleye tonight.  The aroma is just perfect.  Great tomato sauce aroma.  A lot more heat than I was anticipating.  Made my eyes sweat and my nose run.  Affected my lips too, which I don't like, but not so much I had issue with it.  Tomato flavor lingers too.  So far, I haven't tried a sauce that I wouldn't buy.
 

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

Walleye, as promised.  Hoping the winter leaves so I can get the boat out.  Down to my last 8 bags of walleye and 2 bags of gills.
 
 

 
 
 
I was lucky enough to find a local source of 55 gallon blue barrels for making my rain barrels.  I spoke for 15 so far.  The best part is she wants 5 bucks a piece for them.  Can't beat that with a stick if they turn out to be good barrels.  My plan is to line the entire back of the truck garage with these and run both down spouts into them having each overflow run into the next barrel.  
 
Not sure if I should run the overflow out the bottom of the barrels and have them gravity feed into all the barrels, or out the sides.

 

[Devv]

I say run the overflow near the top, if on level ground. If they are lower then they need to not leak. Don't forget the Mosquito dunks! And I wish I could find good barrels for that price. They want 20 here...
 
Looked for Walleye last time we went to SA, none to be had

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

I say run the overflow near the top, if on level ground. If they are lower then they need to not leak. Don't forget the Mosquito dunks! And I wish I could find good barrels for that price. They want 20 here...
 
Looked for Walleye last time we went to SA, none to be had

 
 
My only thought on running them all on the bottom is the water would be self leveling that way.  If I have both down spouts going into the barrel system on either end, and go with a top overflow, I will need a spicket for each barrel to get the water out.  With the water self leveling with bottom feeds, I only need one spicket to drain all the barrels.  If my logic is correct.

 

[JJJessee]

I've been fiddling with irrigation for 2 years and still don't have it just right.
5 bucks is a great price! I was lucky to get them for twice that.
The key is, water will only run up hill if it has no other choice.
 
Oh walleye!   

 

[HillBilly Jeff]

I've been fiddling with irrigation for 2 years and still don't have it just right.
5 bucks is a great price! I was lucky to get them for twice that.
The key is, water will only run up hill if it has no other choice.
 
Oh walleye!   

 
Water should attempt to reach a level.  If you connect a small hose between pop bottles and then start filling one, the water should flow into the other connected bottles until it reaches an exact same level in each bottle.  At least that is my theory.  I see a test case coming in the near future using plastic bottles.  
 
Barring leaks that is
Oh, and I am 8 peppers shy of filling my sweet/mild 72 cell tray!!!

 

[JJJessee]

Maybe if there is a wicking substance in the hoses to activate a siphon action to help it across the hump. Iffy though.

 

[Jeff H]

Walleye, as promised.  Hoping the winter leaves so I can get the boat out.  Down to my last 8 bags of walleye and 2 bags of gills.
 
 

 
 
 

 
Damn, I liked that 6 or 7 times. Okay, that is enough. Food pics stay in my glog. To heck with the cooking threads. 

 

[Nick08*]

What a great sauce Greg.  This is going on the walleye tonight.  The aroma is just perfect.  Great tomato sauce aroma.  A lot more heat than I was anticipating.  Made my eyes sweat and my nose run.  Affected my lips too, which I don't like, but not so much I had issue with it.  Tomato flavor lingers too.  So far, I haven't tried a sauce that I wouldn't buy.
 

 
Sounds like a very spicy ketchup, with the tomato flavor?
 

Walleye, as promised.  Hoping the winter leaves so I can get the boat out.  Down to my last 8 bags of walleye and 2 bags of gills.
 
 
I was lucky enough to find a local source of 55 gallon blue barrels for making my rain barrels.  I spoke for 15 so far.  The best part is she wants 5 bucks a piece for them.  Can't beat that with a stick if they turn out to be good barrels.  My plan is to line the entire back of the truck garage with these and run both down spouts into them having each overflow run into the next barrel.  
 
Not sure if I should run the overflow out the bottom of the barrels and have them gravity feed into all the barrels, or out the sides.

 
 
Haha "ONLY" 8 bags left
 
DAMN! $5 each? And others are getting them for $10-$20... is there a secret supply somewhere I dont know about? they are $100 at HD!!!