Come on up to Virginia in another month; I have a small garden plot but heavily productive. I make a good 2 dozen pint jars of relish and salsa, each and put up another 3 dozen quarts of tomatos, all off of 10 tomato plants and a dozen pepper plants. 1 mound with 3 squash plants and I can freeze 6 gallons bags of squash, that I don't have time to enjoy right off the vine. My first tomato is turning now, size of my fist and I've gathered 10 cucumbers, plus two servings of squash. "Farmer David"!!!!We also gathered to make several relishes and pickles and jellies/preserves. Good times.
A couple of things people might not know about me is I own a couple of John Deere tractors, raise a 2 acre garden and raise chickens.Come on up to Virginia in another month; I have a small garden plot but heavily productive. I make a good 2 dozen pint jars of relish and salsa, each and put up another 3 dozen quarts of tomatos, all off of 10 tomato plants and a dozen pepper plants. 1 mound with 3 squash plants and I can freeze 6 gallons bags of squash, that I don't have time to enjoy right off the vine. My first tomato is turning now, size of my fist and I've gathered 10 cucumbers, plus two servings of squash. "Farmer David"!!!!
I have a LT145 for the lawn and a 2320 for everything else. The 2320 isn't big even smaller than the ford 8N it replaced but it is easier to use. We are still doing some building and rebuilding so the tractor is handy.Hey bayoutider, is 2 John Deere tractors enough machinery for a 2 acre garden plot? :eek2:
Speaking of the old days, in the summer I worked on my uncles hog farm. Breakfast would consist of a platter of fried eggs, biscuits and gravy, leftover fried chicken or porkchops, and unpasterised milk that was 40-50% cream.
Lunch was a selection of cold cuts, lemonaide and watermelon or honeydews from the garden.
He also insisted on steak, baked potato and steamed vegtables 3 nights a week for supper.
The only bought food was flour, milk and cold cuts. He traded hogs for sides of beef. I ate like one of the hogs, but didn't gain weight. Working a hog farm was not a fun thing, but it did convince me to get an education.
For fun-shooting jack rabbits out of the back of a pickup at night.