Personal consumption, Do you help produce some of what you use? |
Personal consumption, Do you help produce some of what you use? |
Sep 3 2012, 10:26 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,186 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Weather has been changing so the garden is starting to slow down and getting ready for harvest time.
I have to remind Timmy that he doesn't want to handle these peppers, as they are known to even blister the skin with contact. I will wait till they turn orange or red before picking them unless there is an early frost. No signs of bugs eating on this plant.. I will definately enjoy them! -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
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Sep 4 2012, 12:39 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,186 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Look out, garden invasion!
It's the all dreaded Tobacco horn worm to a farmer. Loves to feed on tobacco, potato and tomato plants. These things are nasty and eat like there is no tomorrow. They get huge, as thick as my thumb and as long as my fingers. They also have a grip from hell when you try to pull them off. All is ok now, I'm just keeping an eye out for more. There are at least 20 tomatoes starting to ripen on just this one plant. Love those vine ripened tomatoes! -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
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Sep 13 2012, 11:05 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,186 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Time to produce and store some heat for the winter and help with some Colorado fire mitigation. This kind of heat source will heat you up several times, before you even put it into the woodstove.
Temps will be dropping to freezing at night here. -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
and participation opens the door to opportunity. Discover your prospecting independence & success! ColoradoProspector.com Owner/Webmaster Core team member ♥ |
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Sep 13 2012, 03:13 PM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 4,459 Joined: 25-August 09 From: way on up thar Member No.: 6,983 |
Yup!
It's that time of year alright. Been in the upper 20s and lower 30s here at night. Stocking up on wood now myself. -------------------- /l ,[____], l---L-OlllllllO- ()_) ()_)--o-)_) BLACK SANDS MATTER! Very Happy CP Lifetime Member CP CORE TEAM Referral Code CE213 |
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Sep 13 2012, 08:58 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 130 Joined: 15-December 10 From: Castle Rock Member No.: 7,475 |
Time to produce and store some heat for the winter and help with some Colorado fire mitigation. This kind of heat source will heat you up several times, before you even put it into the woodstove. Temps will be dropping to freezing at night here. Wow you guys have some work ahead of you. Let me know if you need any help with that I have a few gallons of saw gas I need to burn through before winter hits. |
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Sep 17 2012, 08:52 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
Thanks for the offer but we have just a personal agreement with this land owner and a couple others adjacent to cut deadwood off the lots and there isn't a time frame limiting us so we'll be able to get wood here for awhile. We can't bring others on the property though as it's inside a gated mountain community with strict rules about access to non owners.
I think the FS is still selling firewood cutting permits if you need some wood though. Give the local district a call, there are many places that could use some fire mitigation just like that lot pictured. Used to be $10.00 per cord for the FS firewood cutting permit. Watch out for mining claims when out cutting though, claim owners have first rights to that timber. -------------------- CP-Owner/Administrator
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Sep 17 2012, 09:53 AM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 130 Joined: 15-December 10 From: Castle Rock Member No.: 7,475 |
Thanks for the offer but we have just a personal agreement with this land owner and a couple others adjacent to cut deadwood off the lots and there isn't a time frame limiting us so we'll be able to get wood here for awhile. We can't bring others on the property though as it's inside a gated mountain community with strict rules about access to non owners. I think the FS is still selling firewood cutting permits if you need some wood though. Give the local district a call, there are many places that could use some fire mitigation just like that lot pictured. Used to be $10.00 per cord for the FS firewood cutting permit. Watch out for mining claims when out cutting though, claim owners have first rights to that timber. Thank you, but no I do not need any firewood. My house right now does not even have a a wood stove or fireplace. I was just offering up help. I did a lot of volunteer fire mitigation this summer and found I enjoy cutting wood especially for a good purpose. Andrew |
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Sep 17 2012, 12:02 PM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,186 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
I love this time of year! Fire mitigation is alot of hard work but well worth it. Here are a couple of pictures from a few years back. Dan would drop the trees, buzz off the brush and cut up the limbs into fire wood chunks. Then I would pile up the fire wood, brush for mulch and then load the fire wood after the truck was backed up to it. Then Dan would strap the log to the back of the truck and we would pull it to the log pile, then unload the firewood...then back out for more. We did this for several months. By the time we were done, the land owner had PLENTY of firewood and over 50 logs for future building.
It's amazing what one can accomplish and produce with some hard work. He also has some beautiful land after it was all cleaned up. He was very pleased with our work!! -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
and participation opens the door to opportunity. Discover your prospecting independence & success! ColoradoProspector.com Owner/Webmaster Core team member ♥ |
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Sep 18 2012, 10:26 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,186 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Wood is our only source of heat so we make sure we have plenty. Once it's home there is still lots of work to be done. Time for chopping, but I love it!! It all brings back memories of working deep in the Michigan woods.
Trying to beat the frost at night in the garden is not as easy with just a big tarp....... -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
and participation opens the door to opportunity. Discover your prospecting independence & success! ColoradoProspector.com Owner/Webmaster Core team member ♥ |
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Oct 13 2012, 07:18 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,186 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
I love that picture of Dan standing next to the logs. We make a good team and can definately "Git-R-Done!".
No holdig back the frost but I did save a Habanaro and a bell pepper plant to bring inside. We also got about 50 ears of corn....mmmmmmm! Have about 70 large green tomatoes now that we had to pull early. Shame the guys don't like fried green tomatoes. Here are some monster Yukon Gold potatoes that a local farm grew here and shared with us. One would feed 3 people! -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
and participation opens the door to opportunity. Discover your prospecting independence & success! ColoradoProspector.com Owner/Webmaster Core team member ♥ |
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Oct 17 2012, 09:52 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 31-March 12 From: Sopchoppy Fl Member No.: 42,369 |
I didn't see anyone with garlic. I,ve grown it here severals years. Apheds put me out of growing for awhile. Ordered the seed clove from Filaree or felaree spelling? in Washington. I'll look around here for an old catalog and post info on them. I think all of the sub species will grow in your climate. I have to have a warm type for here so i'm limited to what we can grow. They have the seed cloves for anything from cool and mild to hot and spicey. We prefer the hot and spicey. Study the shelf live and you may be able to reseed every year with your cloves. Once you grow you onw you'll have a real hard time buying China grown garlii
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Oct 19 2012, 07:17 PM
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Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 62 Joined: 31-March 12 From: Sopchoppy Fl Member No.: 42,369 |
Its Filareefarm.com Some interesting reading also if you like garlic.
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Oct 21 2012, 06:56 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,186 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Great garlic link Burrell! We don't have any garlic in our garden yet, but this is just the second year for this garden and it's still growing. Next year we may grow some though.
Here is a picture of a "Baby carrot". -------------------- Education is the key to the future,
and participation opens the door to opportunity. Discover your prospecting independence & success! ColoradoProspector.com Owner/Webmaster Core team member ♥ |
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Nov 2 2012, 03:27 PM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 4,459 Joined: 25-August 09 From: way on up thar Member No.: 6,983 |
3 cords stacked tight... just need to tarp it. Another 1/4 cord leftover from last year already inside.
I'm ready! -------------------- /l ,[____], l---L-OlllllllO- ()_) ()_)--o-)_) BLACK SANDS MATTER! Very Happy CP Lifetime Member CP CORE TEAM Referral Code CE213 |
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Nov 3 2012, 07:46 AM
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Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 7,186 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 4 |
Sweet Chris! Looks like you will be warm this winter.
-------------------- Education is the key to the future,
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