Absolutely love the cabin. Somehow, just from that partial photo of your post I suspected it @would look a lot like that. I’d love to have one just like it. My parents actually just bought some investment land and it had one quite similar, but the inside is absolutely full of rats and squirrels and other creatures so I’m not up to staying in it unless someone does a LOT of work!! But yours is great, I bet its very relaxing. Someday I’m sure we’d all like to see inside photos to- and we know its rustic.
That is interesting, btw, that your turkey hunting laws only allow hunting until noon. We get sunrise to sunset. Then again, in my area wild turkey’s are the great comeback story. Just 15 years ago they were very rare, now they are everywhere!
@Drew51 and @tomIL : I very much enjoyed hearing you both confirm my own experience with those pre-fab tomato cages…that they are just TOO SMALL!!! Sounds like you have both incorporated them into your growing hobby, though. I actually use them on about half of my tomato plants, but what I do is to stick the wires into the ground and center the cage around the plant. Then I drive a very large, 8 ft tobacco stick (ie a 1 by 2 wooden stick into the ground inside the cage and attach the cage to it. This way, the tomato has great support by the cage hoops until it outgrows it. When that happens it still get support from the wire frame but I also tie the plants to the stick. This also prevents the cage and plant from blowing over as one of you mentioned- which is VERY frustrating and always happens if you don’t steak them. Sounds like we all agree that these things can be useful, but only if you employ strategies other than the way it was designed to be used (ie 3 wires in ground, tomato in center, no other support).
I had a few large pieces of scion wood left over of Winter Banana apple and Spur Arkansas Black and decided to see how they would graft to my pear/apple Frankentree. The host limb is Moonglow pear and these are both scions added at the same time. I wasn’t even sure they would live and I was certainly surprised at the vigor they have. I thought this might be of interest to a few but probable has no practical value. Bill
We built the cabin really tight to keep visitors out but mice are a problem no matter what. They can fit through such a small space. I keep poison out year around so if one finds its way in it doesn’t make it very long.
Mouse hate steel wool, so I stuff up cracks and anyplace of possible entrance with it.
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I very much enjoyed hearing you both confirm my own experience with those pre-fab tomato cages…
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I think the reinforcement wire for cement make nice 5 foot cages, but most places sell it by 100 foot rolls. I use a stake also and yeah just tie them to the stake. I do cut off most suckers, but some manage to escape my attention anyway and the tomatoes become very unruly vines. At some point during the season I give up and let them go wherever! I suspect I will be growing more and more varieties from the Dwarf Tomato Project.
Now you brought up another interesting thing…suckering tomatoes. I know a lot of people are strong believers in suckering, but I’m not convinced yet. I’ve tried it both ways and I’m not sure it really changes my overall yield. But I’m open to being convinced.
@Derby42 - you had me with that part of a cedar post, but then you went and showed me the level action hanging on the deer hoof rack! And the view looking in was great. Just a nice, cozy little cabin. I’m sure you enjoy it very much!
Back in the 90s when i’d hunt with my older brother, he had a 30-30 that he liked to shoot from the hip… i think he watched too many Westerns… He was faster with that lever action then i was with a semi auto.
First curculio spray here on the apricots. Sizing up quickly. Beautiful day here with blue skies (after days and days of clouds) and temps near 70F. Friday is showing low 80Fs so summer is coming back. Tomatoes planted this afternoon.
In the photo is a lever action Winchester 348 rifle. That photo was from last fall. I know you shoot trap and my hat is off to you, I am no great shot with a shot gun. I use a Remington 870 express in12 gauge that can shoot 2 3/4 , 3 , and 3 1/2 inch magnums, kind of a shot gun for every occasion, lol.
I have a 12 gauge semi automatic Benelli, made by Beretta. (or vice versa). Love it. I shoot sporting clays, trap is too boring. I also shoot driven birds. Good looking gun.
I just do it to keep the plant smaller, and under control. I can’t say what is does for yield positive or negative.I have had 8 foot suckers, like a whole other plant. i have also planted suckers and got just that.I’m already cutting them off and I’m just starting to plant some out.
Yes, Benelli are very nice shot guns, and if it shoots where you looking it’s priceless. (Sorry for thinking trap) ,you are correct, sporting clays is much more exciting and challenging than trap. I have never hunted driven birds but I am sure it would really require some fast shooting.
Okay. Just asking because once mine are grapelets they tend to be less densely packed, more spread out along their central stem until they grow fatter.
@MuddyMess_8a brings up a question I’ve been wondering about. My grapes look almost exactly like those in Matt’s photo right now, and I’ve been wondering whether they are tiny little grapes or tiny little bloom buds. If they are grapes, then I didn’t ever see any blooms- this year or last year. AM I just not noticing blooms, or (probably dumb question but i’m used to doing that) do grapes not actually bloom? I’m pretty sure they must bloom, but I never notice blooms, only the tiny little grapelets like mad is showing in his photos. What gives.
@Derby42 - I’ve got an 870 Remington wingmaster, very similar to what you described. Its even more of a shotgun for every occassion since it not only chambers all 3 12 gauge sizes, it also has interchangable chokes. THe express may have that too. They are both great guns, and I can honestly rack and fire that thing faster than my buddies can shoot semi auto guns. I love it. I’d love to have @mrsg47 's Benelli, but those things are so nice (and expensive) that I’d be scared to take it in the field! But they are soooo beautiful! )
Kevin, yes, grapes bloom. The clusters that first appear are flower buds. They open into itty bitty flowers, and then become grapes. Matt’s photo looked like it had a couple of flowers hidden in the cluster, but as I’ve said before, my eyesight is lousy, especially when it comes to looking at pics.
