Gardening Gardening

This looks like a neat way to grow a few potatoes:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/how-to-grow-100-pounds-of-potatoes-in-4-square-feet-81760

 

My sister did that with a really big plant pot on her deck a couple years ago and said it worked really well.
She couldn't pull potatoes out of the bottom of course, but she had a decent crop.

 

Two of my granddaughters in their veggie garden. (I have no idea what the logo on the t-shirt is about. Generation gap?)

 

Ok, I see my problem.
I forgot my doll when I planted the garden.
That's a nice haul right there.

 

Ooops, mah bad Larry, cute kids.
We've got 2 of ours here this week and next. 10 and 11.

 

wOw!

 

A few of our potato plants were ready to harvest. Got some great looking potatoes. I would say we harvested about 10% of whAt we have planted. They are Yukon gold and are amazing !

 

I didn't take pics of tomatoes, but I have 8 jars of thinner than I would have liked tomato sauce.
Picking some peppers so that they hopefully push some more.

I finally got a couple rows of carrots and beets .
Still have some carrots in a tree pot.

 

Somebody picked every single one of my peaches last night or this morning.
Not just the easy to grab ones.
Every single one.
2 years in a row now.

I gotta get some cameras as they came back and cleaned out my asian pears last year. All three trees at once.
Maybe a shotgun too, I'm pizzed.
This is two legged dirt bags not critters.
Can't see my orchard from the street so it has to be a neighbor or someone close by that knows they are there and when they are ripe.

 

That's nuts. How desperate can someone be?

 

You may be surprised to find it may be squirrels or raccoons.
My father used to blame the hoodlums in the neighborhood, then he caught the squirrels in the act, about ten or 15 of them, taking off like bandits.
The durn critters cleaned me out this year, too. But they did leave me about 10 of the crappy ones.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Cuddeback-C23...m_sbs_p_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=037CHR4GJQHZN00Q2S7K

 

I've watched squirrels take pears during the day in the past.
Frustrating when they take the seckels and only eat the seeds.
I had a die off from a population explosion two years ago. There were emaciated starved dead squirrel bodies all over all Winter. They haven't recovered. I just don't have that many right now. They would be taking the bartlett drops. Right now the chew marks in the drops look more like rabbit.

 

Sounds like the camera is the first thing. Catch what ever it is in the act. Maybe stringing some electric fence will help.
I've had critters clean me out so bad that I gave up fighting. The garden right next to the house seems to be about the only place half safe. Still had go fight off ground hogs and bugs. Our farmers really earn every cent they might get after doing war with critters and hoping the weather doesn't wipe them out. No garden this year. I don't quibble about the prices at the farm stands.

 

Grand kids into helping their mom with selsa and sause.

 

Take advantage while they still want to help.

 

In the early fall, we have made apple butter. It is so good on an English, pancakes, muffins and on roasted pork. Easy to process. When you consider the cost of preserves, this one is worth it. We buy drops from the orchard. I like the fact that there are no chemical in it.