Food 2019 Amateur Farm and Garden thread

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Hired a local guy with a tractor to cut the back 8 acres. This is 5 hours of work so far. He estimated 10 hours total, doubt that he'll finish under 15 hours, though the hardest part is now done (that hillside is a bitch). He's got a New Holland sub-tractor diesel job with a decent sized bushhog on the back.
 
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Hired a local guy with a tractor to cut the back 8 acres. This is 5 hours of work so far. He estimated 10 hours total, doubt that he'll finish under 15 hours, though the hardest part is now done (that hillside is a bitch). He's got a New Holland sub-tractor diesel job with a decent sized bushhog on the back.

I know it ain't your thing but all I can see is a pasture that needs grazing and baled up to last the winter for the stuff that's grazing it in the summer .
 
I know it ain't your thing but all I can see is a pasture that needs grazing and baled up to last the winter for the stuff that's grazing it in the summer .
No farmers around here want to hay this small a field. They want like 20+ acres. There's a lot of junk/weeds on the hill side too, so that wouldn't be good food hay, just ground cover or garden cover really. I don't have time to manage a barn of goats, sheep, or horses. They're fuckin expensive too.
 
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Hired a local guy with a tractor to cut the back 8 acres. This is 5 hours of work so far. He estimated 10 hours total, doubt that he'll finish under 15 hours, though the hardest part is now done (that hillside is a bitch). He's got a New Holland sub-tractor diesel job with a decent sized bushhog on the back.
I first thought it was some of those crop carving things they blame on the aliens. Morning! And fuck, I see I am still on their ship.o_O
 
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speaking of peppers, the shishitos turn this deep angry black/red in like 2 days if you leave them on the vine too long. They look hot as fuck.

Theyre not. No heat all.
 
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speaking of peppers, the shishitos turn this deep angry black/red in like 2 days if you leave them on the vine too long. They look hot as fuck.

Theyre not. No heat all.
New Mexican chiles' heat level has a lot to do with how stressed (hot) or unstressed (mild) the plant is during its life span. I wouldn't be surprised if there were others that were the same.
 
New Mexican chiles' heat level has a lot to do with how stressed (hot) or unstressed (mild) the plant is during its life span. I wouldn't be surprised if there were others that were the same.

oh, same with other species for sure. Shishitos arent meant to be hot though. THey just look it.

I have a crop of jalepenos from last year that are hotter than habaneros due to being stressed. I dried em, and they smell like pizza. If pizza were the temperature of the surface of the sun.