How Does Your Garden Grow??????

too larry

too larry

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xtsho said:
Well that sucks. Got a bit of rain did you? Too bad you can't send it out here. It's shaping up to be a bad fire season out west. But with the crazy weather patterns lately who knows what will happen? I'm hoping we don't end up in flames again. The air quality gets really bad and you never know what might happen. I'm surrounded by trees in a tree filled neighborhood. Things happen fast.
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It rained a lot in winter and early spring. Not so much since then. Things were drying up fast until about a week ago. We got a solid week of rain from some little tropical thing. It really saved my garden.

I still don;t have a road cut to the pond, so I wasn't getting down there that often. Maybe a month or so back I cut a trail in, planning to use the road around the edge of the woods. I found the pond was up in the woods, so that road was not an option. Since then I have been working on clearing the old roads. Got a good deal done. Maybe another 75-100 yards and I will be out to the blacktop.
 
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Picked a few peas. Not a bunch but enough for two portions tonight for dinner. I will only get a few meals out of them but they sure are a treat when they're here. They'll go nice with the Beef Stroganoff I'm making for dinner. I just broke down a chuck roll and set aside some nice pieces of beef that I've already sliced up. My wonderful lady is picking up some mushrooms, sour cream, and a nice bottle of Cabernet on the way home from work. Getting ready to pick some of the lettuce out in the garden for a salad and a few radishes.


 
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xtsho

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too larry said:
It rained a lot in winter and early spring. Not so much since then. Things were drying up fast until about a week ago. We got a solid week of rain from some little tropical thing. It really saved my garden.

I still don;t have a road cut to the pond, so I wasn't getting down there that often. Maybe a month or so back I cut a trail in, planning to use the road around the edge of the woods. I found the pond was up in the woods, so that road was not an option. Since then I have been working on clearing the old roads. Got a good deal done. Maybe another 75-100 yards and I will be out to the blacktop.
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How much property are you living on? You're talking about roads and I'm talking small paths. I could sell and move where I can buy some land much cheaper than these insane prices in Portland. I could be living on five to ten acres in many states. But I'll never leave here. An hour to the ocean, an hour to Mt Hood, an hour to the desert, etc... It's too nice out here to leave. I'm just lucky I bought years ago. Housing prices are insane out here. The house I have is worth three times what I paid twenty years ago. I only wish I would have bought another one or two. Maybe three or more. It sure would have paid off.
 
too larry

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xtsho said:
How much property are you living on? You're talking about roads and I'm talking small paths. I could sell and move where I can buy some land much cheaper than these insane prices in Portland. I could be living on five to ten acres in many states. But I'll never leave here. An hour to the ocean, an hour to Mt Hood, an hour to the desert, etc... It's too nice out here to leave. I'm just lucky I bought years ago. Housing prices are insane out here. The house I have is worth three times what I paid twenty years ago. I only wish I would have bought another one or two. Maybe three or more. It sure would have paid off.
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The farm is a hair over 210 acres. Sister and I split it, with the 65-70 acres of river land owned jointly by both of us. My house is on 40 acres, the pond land is 40 acres, and my old house is on a couple of acres. When I was a kid, we ran cows and farmed about 600 acres of family land. But as my cousins got older and retired, they took back their land. That, combined with all the people living close by makes the farm feel really small to me now.

A cousin sold his 40 {out of the family} for about $100K. Seemed high to me, but someone bought it.
 
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too larry said:
The farm is a hair over 210 acres. Sister and I split it, with the 65-70 acres of river land owned jointly by both of us. My house is on 40 acres, the pond land is 40 acres, and my old house is on a couple of acres. When I was a kid, we ran cows and farmed about 600 acres of family land. But as my cousins got older and retired, they took back their land. That, combined with all the people living close by makes the farm feel really small to me now.

A cousin sold his 40 {out of the family} for about $100K. Seemed high to me, but someone bought it.
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40 acres is more than 200 times the size of my lot. Any good fishing in the river?
 
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xtsho said:
40 acres is more than 200 times the size of my lot. Any good fishing in the river?
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It's a small spring fed river. Shallow and rocky north of me, and wide and swampy to the south. Both sections are good for bass, bream and some cats. {there is a bigger river close by that is better for catfish} But the clear part has too many boats, jet skis and tubers. Most of the fishermen go to the south to get away from the crowd.
 
xtsho

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too larry said:
It's a small spring fed river. Shallow and rocky north of me, and wide and swampy to the south. Both sections are good for bass, bream and some cats. {there is a bigger river close by that is better for catfish} But the clear part has too many boats, jet skis and tubers. Most of the fishermen go to the south to get away from the crowd.
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Cool.

Used to catch native cutthroat trout around here and back in the day the salmon and steelhead were still pretty good. Years of over fishing and destruction of habitat, the dams, etc... have taken their toll. The sea lions are not helping either but they're being scapegoated.
 
too larry

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xtsho said:
Cool.

Used to catch native cutthroat trout around here and back in the day the salmon and steelhead were still pretty good. Years of over fishing and destruction of habitat, the dams, etc... have taken their toll. The sea lions are not helping either but they're being scapegoated.
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We have a flathead catfish problem here. They eat bream and bream are the bread and butter of our fishing here. The game and fish folks will shock the river and count fish every few years. There were several tons of flatheads per mile on the big river.
 
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Every cutting of okra is a little more than the last one. This is from this morning. I have had some bug issues. Sprayed once, and cleared it up for a couple of weeks. Saw a few were back this morning.

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Blooms on the green beans, but still not setting fruit.

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Peas are not doing great. But are looking better with the recent rains. I've been picking a few every other day.

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