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

HillBilly Jeff said:
 

Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
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Bodeen said:
Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
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Just throwing this up here to plan out my list for next year.  Looking at some changes to my grow next year.
 
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Water pump on those are really easy to change, and yes much better than freeze plugs. If you keep nice bright green coolant in it the freeze plugs last longer.
 
Here's the log I kept with my hoop house, first temp is real temp, second is the hoop temp:
 
45 was 56 cloudy
46 was 70 sun out for just a bit 2-3
45 was 60 clouded up 2-3
64 and 70 at 4:30 sunny 2-4
47 and 80 at 3:30 sunny 2-5
31 and 52 at 1:00  cloudy 2-6
30 and 50 at 2PM  cloudy 2-7
37 and 41 at 8AM cloudy 2-8
cold as hell 2-9 to 2-13
68 and 93 3:30PM Sunny, all day 2-14
68 and 94 12 noon Sunny all day 2-15
77 and 80 3PM both ends opened up, thermometer shaded by a piece of cardboard 2-15
 
Today's lunch served for dinner as I was stuck outside working on the gardens :)
 
 
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I also repotted my extra peppers I germed in paper towels and then planted 5 to a 3 1/2 inch pot.  Those all repotted nicely, but I had a Douce that had 5 to a peat pellet and I think I was only able to save the best one out of it.  The other four were removed a little rough as to not to disturb the main plant and they are looking sad.  Still not hurting for pepper plants.
 
HillBilly Jeff said:
 
Got a triaxle load of black dirt coming, I picked up some garden soil, I have a lot of peat moss, need to get some composted cow manure, going to throw some composted leaves and cow manure in the bottom as well.
 
I will have 4 24 feet long beds to fill, plus a large tire to fill, not to mention 6 other tires to fill for potatoes.
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HillBilly Jeff said:
 
 
 
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You better tell that tandem driver to load himself heavy. Got one with an Aluminum bed available?
 
Before you leveled them, just the raised beds were 4*24*1.25*(3 beds)/27=13.333 cu.yards. @ 3000# per yard, that is 20 tons.
 
Add up the extra space that you gained leveling the beds and the tires and I bet you are up there around 23-25 tons.
 
I don't think the compost I haul is anywhere near 1.5 ton/cy, but if it were soppin' wet. All bets are off. :)
 
Those are going to make some incredibly fine beds! They look extremely sturdy compared to what I've patched and cobbled together.
You may want to put some kind of stopper on the voids along the bottom, even a partial length of the timbers, compost tends to want to migrate over time.
 Can't wait to see them capped solid in  peppers. ^5
 
JJJessee said:
I don't think the compost I haul is anywhere near 1.5 ton/cy, but if it were soppin' wet. All bets are off. :)
 
Those are going to make some incredibly fine beds! They look extremely sturdy compared to what I've patched and cobbled together.
You may want to put some kind of stopper on the voids along the bottom, even a partial length of the timbers, compost tends to want to migrate over time.
 Can't wait to see them capped solid in  peppers. ^5
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I am going to back fill these so they will be level and there won't be any materials coming out of the beds themselves.  If I put in some of my taller plants, I may be reaching up to pick the peppers, which will be nice.
 
stc3248 said:
Nice work on the raised beds! Very nice! The smoked fish looked like just the ticket too...one thing I haven't smoked just yet, may have to give it a whirl!
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Thank you.  Going with fruit wood on the next fish.  The hickory was awesome, but almost too much.
 
JJJessee said:
I don't think the compost I haul is anywhere near 1.5 ton/cy, but if it were soppin' wet. All bets are off. :)
 
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Agreed. I was thinking topsoil. not compost. Still 13.3 yards though without the sloped parts or tires. That is a bunch.
 
Jeff, unless you have or rent a front end loader or Bobcat, I predict that you will be very sore the next day. I moved 3 yards of pea gravel by shovel and wheel barrow a few years ago. Never again. I hurt for a while.
 
Man, 13+ cu yards of fill.. every spring I get 3-5 CuYd of mulch delivered and my back hates me for a week (why does it ALWAYS FRIGGING RAIN on my mulch pile every year????).
 
I couldn't imagine doing 4 times that, by hand, with a shovel and wheelbarrel..
 
I will be doing it by hand.  My back fill to level these will be from the sand I dug out from the south wall of the hobby shop.  Might need more than that, but it will give me a start.
 
I shoveled out the dirt from the garage and that was 27 x 3 so filling should be easier.  At least I get to stop and blend in  4 cf of peat in each bed.

If what I have coming won't do it, I have a couple mounds of black dirt in the back I can shovel onto the pickup and top things off.  I need to level outside the beds, to a degree, to make mowing less bumpy.
 
You're in for a workout filling those beds, I had 16yds of heavy soil brought in this last fall and dumped on the slab in front of the shop. I used the tractor to bring it to the garden but I still had to hand shovel it to spread it around as I just dumped most of it over the fence, just the kind of work that keeps one young :D
 
Pork looking good!
 
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