I did learn that if you pick the tomatoes much sooner than you think the birds won’t get them. Once the tomatoes start to change color from green to orange/light red, pick em. Let them ripen up in the house the rest of the way. If you leave them on the vine to ripen nice and red they become a magnet for birds and bugs. I did not notice any difference in flavor by picking them sooner.
Man I have been thinking about a really similar design for a couple months. Gave up on it an decided to make the run separate with a bolt on angle or hss frame with wheels on a lever.
Do you put the drip lines down first under the mesh, and then blowtorch the holes, or do you pull back all the mesh and then lay drip lines, and put back on the mesh?
if you tilled that soil than layed the fabric on top how is it you not sinking down into the soil as you kneeing and burning holes???.....i used to leave huge holes as i walked on my fabric and water would puddle where i walked on
I tried Red Snapper and Bella Rosa last year. They were a lot alike but I think Bella Rosa's my favorite now. I just thought another good thing about a greenhouse is pest control. Great looking farmland.
Did you have any problems with Red Snapper? I had real bad blossom end rot despite supplying lots of calcium to them. I did not have any blossom end rot in all of the other varieties I grew. I’m really considering building a high tunnel for tomatoes. I think your right, it should help reduce pest issues.
@@redfoxranch3244 Red Snapper performed much like Bella Rosa and Summer Pick for me last year. It was new ground a lot of clay with compost and ash mixed in good. But it was the wettest summer in a very long time. So many tomatoes failed before they could be harvested. I threw at least 50 softball size tomatoes in the woods. No blossom end rot though. Clay is great for micronutrients. I understand blossom end rot as the inability of the plant to take up calcium rather than a lack of calcium in the soil if that helps. I still add some at planting though. I use a copper anti fungal solution LiquiCop as needed. The plants stayed healthy just way too much rain. Planted Bella Rosa heavy this year and trying Roadster. I like five foot T-posts with Florida weave Bella Rosa stays in that space a little better than Red Snapper. My best advice is lots of compost and rotate every year. Rotation takes lots of space though. This is my third year I got lots of good starter info from Hoss Tools here on YT. This year is extremely dry in central Alabama so looks like a bumper crop. Weather is uneven now so we all need a greenhouse. I'm too busy clearing trees for now for more sunlight. Texas Prepper may be in your area he's in the green part of the state too.
Tried Orbit timers?..... lots of positive reviews, mine is outstanding 18+ months on battery changes, and in a protective housing like that should last many years! Perhaps too much sediment in water is jamming timers up inside??
I have not tried Orbit yet but will in the future. Your prob right about sediment now that I think about it. I have a whole home filter on the water going to the house but the garden water comes out before going through that filter!
It really worked well for me. This year I divided the drip tape into 3 separate zones on a 3 independent valve timer. This should give me much better control over how much water goes to the tomato’s section, the corn section, and the misc. section. I found last year some of the zones needed more water at times and others needed almost none but I had no way to regulate that in my last setup. Now I do! Good luck with your garden sir. Thanks for watching.
Great fella , I carve up our harvest that way u know it's yours. I learnt from the "bearded butchers" how to carve. 🇨🇦 72+ Manitoba Yorkshire expat ps: always lookin fer new ideas 👍
Its a Stihl HT 103. It has one section that extends. It goes from 7'6" to 11'6" at the longest. So if you really reach with your arms you can get limbs 16' or so. I love it. It's one of those things thats after you get it, you say to yourself, 'wow why did I not get one of these years ago!'
No not yet. I get aggravated with videos on RU-vid that don't ever show what the description says. I just realized thats exactly what I did! haha. Sorry that was never my intention. I just got sidetracked with other projects and then steel prices went nuts and its just too darn hot lately to work on that project. I will get around to doing it once it cools off.
Carlos, thats seriously a brilliant idea. I never would have thought of that. Now I want one! If it had a refrigeration unit on it I could use it as a meat locker and butcher, hang, and age my own beef at home!
They are all still doing great and are getting big fast. Bubbles, Dark Dark Head, and Dot are still very friendly and like to be petted. Thank you for taking the time to comment on my video. I should have some new videos out soon. I have been busy trying to get the garden ready for growing season.
