how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[67L36Driver]

Use some horse manure tea [emoji106]
5gal pail half full then finish filling up with water and let steep a few days then water each plant with some.


Sent from Hoskey Hills

Neighbor in south St. Louis county used horse manure on the asparagus patch exclusively.

St. Louis county was mostly truck farms when I grew up.

Got a ‘twofer’ from the horse. Plowing and poopin’.

 

[67L36Driver]

Nice out this Morning.

Yes it is!

Morning midlanders!

 

[hoskvarna]

Morning guys

Sent from Hoskey Hills

 

[67L36Driver]

Which way turns the oiler down on the Homie?

I looked at all my saved stuff on the ‘puter and have zip.

 

[plcnut]

Use some horse manure tea [emoji106]
5gal pail half full then finish filling up with water and let steep a few days then water each plant with some.


Sent from Hoskey Hills

No horses at our house (thankfully), but I can substitute some cow manure. I doubt it will work as well, but it should help.

The Amish farms have the nicest gardens around here, and they are very liberal with the the horse manure and straw.

 

[teacherman]

Four. I had around 18 a couple years ago when I was trying hard to expand. Then we had a rough fall, a rough winter, and I was tied down with work, and now I'm down to four that have managed to take care of themselves.

I have a pile of nuc boxes, and 1000 new deep frames, and 500 sheets of new foundation. I just haven't had the drive to get back with it...
Really enjoyed going to @sawnami 's to cut those out. Maybe it will give me the boost to get back at it

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The queen appears to be in the boxes, but I never did see her.
They were surprisingly calm/mellow throughout the arduous process. They are generally quite testy when queenless.
The colony was quite large. I fit all the comb I could salvage into 7 deep frames, and thought that one box would be enough room, but by 8 PM there were so many bees that the box was full, and they had bearded all over the front. I added a second box, and they seemed to have moved in nicely.

This is amazing to me. I am scared of bees, wasps, bumblebees, all them stinging bugs. I did some work on a front porch right by a hole full of particularly unfriendly bumblebees in the early 1980s, and I am thus normally an avid and outspoken proponent of aerosol cans filled with wasp, uh, "medicine."

However, this is different. Seeing this in a big tree tells me I'd better become prepared to deal with them at some point. At some level you are working to save humanity here, or at least prolong our ability to produce food on the land, and that has to count for something, like maybe trying to give God a little more time to let us get it together and figure it out. Even mainstream people are starting to realize that bees are important; it's not just the organic hippie crowd. Good on ye, man.

. ugh.... RUNNNN!!!! BEEEEEES!!!! . .

 

[teacherman]

Use some horse manure tea [emoji106]
5gal pail half full then finish filling up with water and let steep a few days then water each plant with some.


Sent from Hoskey Hills

Doesn't sound so yummy....

I guess worm poop tea is a thing as well.

THe horse manure has to be aged or not?

 

[hoskvarna]

Doesn't sound so yummy....

I guess worm poop tea is a thing as well.

THe horse manure has to be aged or not?

Better if dry when you pick up


Sent from Hoskey Hills

 

[Dustin]

Morning all

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[hoskvarna]

Doin little wood working this morning

Sent from Hoskey Hills

 

[plcnut]

This is amazing to me. I am scared of bees, wasps, bumblebees, all them stinging bugs. I did some work on a front porch right by a hole full of particularly unfriendly bumblebees in the early 1980s, and I am thus normally an avid and outspoken proponent of aerosol cans filled with wasp, uh, "medicine."

However, this is different. Seeing this in a big tree tells me I'd better become prepared to deal with them at some point. At some level you are working to save humanity here, or at least prolong our ability to produce food on the land, and that has to count for something, like maybe trying to give God a little more time to let us get it together and figure it out. Even mainstream people are starting to realize that bees are important; it's not just the organic hippie crowd. Good on ye, man.

. ugh.... RUNNNN!!!! BEEEEEES!!!! . .

I did not even know how to recognize a honeybee before we started studying them.

Honeybees are a lot different from the wasps and hornets.
They have a barbed stinger, which means that if they sting you, they cannot pull their stinger out. When a honeybee stings you, you know she is serious, because she will die for it.

Keep your spray handy and use it on the hornets and wasps, but contact your local beekeeper club to find someone in your area who will help you when you find honeybees.
You should be able to Google your states beekeeping club, and their website should have a list of local clubs

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.

 

[sunfish]

I did not even know how to recognize a honeybee before we started studying them.

Honeybees are a lot different from the wasps and hornets.
They have a barbed stinger, which means that if they sting you, they cannot pull their stinger out. When a honeybee stings you, you know she is serious, because she will die for it.

Keep your spray handy and use it on the hornets and wasps, but contact your local beekeeper club to find someone in your area who will help you when you find honeybees.
You should be able to Google your states beekeeping club, and their website should have a list of local clubs

Good info! I only spray wasps & yellow jackets. Bees are Very beneficial!

 

[teacherman]

Good info! I only spray wasps & yellow jackets. Bees are Very beneficial!

I did not even know how to recognize a honeybee before we started studying them.

Honeybees are a lot different from the wasps and hornets.
They have a barbed stinger, which means that if they sting you, they cannot pull their stinger out. When a honeybee stings you, you know she is serious, because she will die for it.

Keep your spray handy and use it on the hornets and wasps, but contact your local beekeeper club to find someone in your area who will help you when you find honeybees.
You should be able to Google your states beekeeping club, and their website should have a list of local clubs

Yeah, I was bloviating a bit there. I can actually tell the difference, but I have an initial reaction of "uh oh, stinger bugs, git sum spray," which of course does not always translate into action. I remember on that porch job I was chased down the street about a dozen times over a three day period, got stung several times, and once I whacked myself in the head swinging around a short piece of 1x6 trying to get one of those bass-turds that was chasing me. Glad that was before the time of viral videos and people with nothing better to do than take cell phone videos of other people actually trying to do things.

 

[Workshop]

Hot today.

 

[Workshop]

Took Bumblebee out to stretch his legs this evening. Get lots of stares from folks.
That's always a good time.

 

[plcnut]

Pork roast after 4 hours of oak smoke:

 

[Workshop]

Pork roast after 4 hours of oak smoke:

Wish I'd of known, I'd come out and help you all eat that because I know there won't be leftovers .

 

[plcnut]

Wish I'd of known, I'd come out and help you all eat that because I know there won't be leftovers .

It is actually for supper tomorrow after church. I sliced up the roast, vacuum sealed it in bags, and put it in the fridge.
Tomorrow afternoon my wife will just put the bags in boiling water for 20 minutes or so.

I also smoked a couple packages of chicken thighs. We ate some of them for supper, along with some sausages.

'Twas very good...

 

[plcnut]

Happy birthday Kyle! @moparnut88