Farm and Garden

[Uncle Gump]

Maybe it was Memorial Day then. I'm just the grunt who does the manual labor

Our rule was always mother's day.

Most years I'm eating some fresh tomatoes the first week of July using the mother's day rule.

Memorial day works too...

 

[Uncle Gump]

My cherry tomatoes are booming. I'll be picking enough this weekend to make my chicken Greek pasta salad.

Probably the earliest I've ever picked a few tomatoes.

 

[Curious Hound]

Our rule was always mother's day.

Most years I'm eating some fresh tomatoes the first week of July using the mother's day rule.

Memorial day works too...

Down here, they start planting at easter.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Down here, they start planting at easter.

Yeah, we were still getting frost up to Mother’s Day.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Yeah... y'all get a longer grow season.

I could be crazy... but...

Even my mother... that lived in Florida for many years... says the home grown veggies taste way better from up here.

I would think your grow season is long enough you could do two plantings of many things.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

From earlier this year, engine swapped my Troy Bilt to a HF "max performance" 224cc engine and finally ditched the Tecumseh 195cc.

Can't speak to longevity, but holy hell this thing runs like a friggin animal now. Garden used to take me 3+ hours to turn under with the old engine, now I'm done in 45 minutes and I run just-off-idle. Engine doesn't know it's even dug in, and is very quiet.

First run with it and I was questioning why I tortured myself with the Tecumseh all those years...

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Yeah, we were still getting frost up to Mother’s Day.

Yeah, mother's day is the rule of thumb for gardening here but even then you gotta be careful and kind of read the year.

Potatoes go in around Good Friday though.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Yeah, mother's day is the rule of thumb for gardening here but even then you gotta be careful and kind of read the year.

Potatoes go in around Good Friday though.

Didn't know that about potatoes. We grew them when I was young... never paid attention to when they went in. I kinda remember digging them up about the time we would pheasant hunt. Seems the foliage would start to die with the first frost... and we would dig them up.

Is there a rule for harvesting taters?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Didn't know that about potatoes. We grew them when I was young... never paid attention to when they went in. I kinda remember digging them up about the time we would pheasant hunt. Seems the foliage would start to die with the first frost... and we would dig them up.

Is there a rule for harvesting taters?

Not really

The Good Friday thing isn't really a hard and fast rule either.

 

[RobbieD]

Is there a rule for harvesting taters?