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| Well it's been dry and then the rain set in. So the 1st two picking of beans were needless to say and lack of better words tough. Then with the set on rain, P2 got another picking on his 4H garden project. Well we all decided to pull the plant up and pick, give to cow the stems and stalks. Well getting to the very last hand full and thank GOD my dad pulled the last bean plant up ALONG with a snake. How nobody got bite is beyond my understanding. So when working in tall beans or other veggies in the garden watch where you put you hand, you may find something other then an ant.
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| I fear going near my garden.. the weeds are so high, but in between there are some tomato plants...they are the only thing that we got into the garden... Hate snakes! but have begun to learn with them.. thankfully mostly just bull snakes...
Livin to learn
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The best gift I ever received from my mother in law for christmas is a mantis tiller. If you get one you will not no how you ever lived with out one. It goes so slick between the rows so all I have to do is pull the weeds just around the plants. I always watch out for snakes the ones around me are nonpoisonous but they make me jump when I come across one. I know they love my back deck area. When I go down the steps they LOVE the area between the grass and bottom step. I seem to come across them with my arms carrying a full laundry basket. The lawn has almost worn the clothes a few times. They seem to run around 2 and 1/2 feet long and I don't care how many times hubby says they won't bite
Please God remember me.
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Jasper08 (7/18/2011)
I fear going near my garden.. the weeds are so high, but in between there are some tomato plants...they are the only thing that we got into the garden...Hate snakes! but have begun to learn with them.. thankfully mostly just bull snakes... Next year, lay down a cotton sheet (any size works) cut a hole about 6 inches in diameter with scissors then dig a hole with a post hole digger and plant your tomato in the hole (throw a couple handsful of grass clippings in first for some fertilizing) You will need to lay a couple boards or something along each edge to hold the sheets down. Other than a small area around each plant til they get developed, you won't have to weed. Also no tilling and no trouble cleaning up. I also laid grass clipping around the top of the hole to hold down weeds there. I did NO weeding in my tomato patch at all this year. Also works around any plant, I used them under cantaloupe, peppers, zucchini, cabbage, spaghetti squash and squash. If you leave enough area to mow between rows, you can do just a little weeding along the edges of the sheets or plant insect attractant/repellant plants in those spots. If you have trouble with weeds growing up under the sheets, pile grass clippings on to weigh it down and suppress. Plus you can often get free or very cheap sheets from neighbors, family and thrift shops.
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