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Sweet potato yield from this year
Recently all of the spuds have been dug up and we had quite the successful harvest. I made a short video showing off the spuds that we grew. A few of them were huge and the rest were market size. I do not have a scale at the moment to weigh them but I think I have about 25 pounds of them at least.
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When I got these starter plants, I was expecting to get a Cherry tree as well. I ordered both together, though the Cherry tree was out of stock. It was a Royal Lee, which would be compatible with my Minnie Royal Cherry tree. Unfortunately it did not arrive, and I got a refund for it. Though the Goji plants still shipped, I asked the shipper to cancel my order when they told me the Cherry tree was out of stock. Though they disregarded my message and still shipped it.. heh.. annoying
So these plants were kind of a misadventure, though I hope they will grow big and strong and give me Goji berries in the future. I planted four of them, they were dormant with no signs of life. Just little sticks, though I know many plants look like this before spring time starts. I found some good places for them and placed them in the ground and got to placing them in the holes.
I ended up digging into an Ant nest at one point, heh it happens all too often in Georgia. Well I had to wait for them to disperse and then placed the Goji plant in the hole. The Ants shouldnt hurt it, but I did not want to get all bitten up by them. Some of them were queens getting ready to fly. So I kind of made of mess of the area by disturbing it.
May take a few years to produce fruits, but until then ill enjoy them growing up. I hear they can be fast growing so we shall see how big they get. And with a few of the plants if they need pollination between them then it should happen. They are within fifty feet of each other so Bees and such should visit them all helping to produce quality fruit.
At the time of planting, the pollen count was through the roof. So I was wearing a face mask to keep the pollen at bay. With a count of 6000 its painful to work outside when its that high so I need protection.
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Playing as nod I continue working on the defenses and building out more troops. I set up harvesters on both of the deposits by the base. I find having at least two refineries is the way to go. Though you need alot of power plants and when you have as many base defenses as me you need alot of power. As the enemies super weapon counts down I move into the base to destroy it before they try to take me out with it. I set up in a near by bunker and start firing upon their base. I have to call for re-enforcements but we eventually bring down the super weapon with just a little over a minute to spare. I then go for the rest of their base but get pushed back.
Another enemy starts the count down of their super weapon so I need to finish off purple team and move onto pink team. I build up more forces and use an engineer to take over one of the enemy nod mechs. Once enough forces a built up I sent them over to pink teams base and take out the super weapon early on. Though not enough to wipe out their base. Thats sometimes how you have to play it so their superweapon does not destroy most of your base. Sending out raiding parties to take out a single building.
One of the enemies on the map gets their aircraft built up and makes attacks on the base I am in. I did not have the best AA defenses so a few bombs got dropped on my base and took out the refineries and command center. The tides start turning as I failed to wipe out both purple and pink, now they are starting to attack from a distance and making me run out of resources. I reload as I start stalling and retry again from a previous save.
This time I use aircraft and will hope to wipe out super weapons without having to throw large foot troops at an enemy base. Though before I could spawn in enough air power the super weapon counts down to zero and takes out my base again.
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Playing as nod this time around, as I get bored playing as GDI all the time. I usually prefer GDI but its nice have a change in teams once in awhile. I build a bunch of power plants and go for a turtle plan with alot of defenses.
Shortly after getting some turrets set up I capture some of those cash generating towers, not sure what they are suppose to be. haha maybe they are some kind of solar towers?
Then I move onto the turrets you can capture. They will deny other enemy factions from collecting minerals and if any enemies go through the center of the map they should get shelled pretty hard.
I take a rifle squad and some engineers and see if I can capture some more points around the map. Its nice I can repair these those capture points just as my own buildings.
I add some air defenses but quickly run out of energy so I built some more power plants. I spawn a bunch of troops and avoid making vehicles in this playthrough of this map.
We rush a building that was destroyed, my ally come along with some air support but their help was not needed. Some flame troops and vehicles show up and put some hurt on me but I have enough troops to take them out.
Moving onto the enemy base I destroy their refinery first and their harvester and then move onto their super weapon before it can launch. Though some more flamers show up and take out my assault squad.
I am not very good at this game, and really never tried all that hard to get good at it. But its still fun to play on easy and steamroll through enemies. Maybe ill turn the difficulty up eventually but when I am gaming I want to have fun, not get frustrated and mad. Gaming time is for me to relax, not to get stressed out about constantly losing. Maybe thats why I prefer single player games, as multiplayer is more of a zero sum kind of feel to it. Someone had to lose for someone to win. But when playing with bots it does not matter in single player and its all good fun
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catnipplanting
I have been adding plants that have a nice aroma to them, or at least is offensive to mosquitoes. I planted some Mint for this reason. And another plant that I placed into the ground is the Catnip plant. I dug a few holes and placed them in with some of the dirt that came with the plants. They were delivered in styrofoam cups and overall in good condition. The leaves were a little droopy but probably from being shipped in the summer and such.
It is part of the mint family, so makes sense it repels mosquitoes. And it will have the added benefit of being an herb for the cats. We usually buy Catnip in bottles at the local market. But I think growing my own and it being very fresh the cats may like it more.
Buying a few of these Catnip plants, I find spots will full or mostly full sunlight during the day. The plants looked pretty unhappy for the first few weeks, but since planting them awhile back I can say they are much happier now.
Looking forward to the reaction of the cats when I bring some inside. I need to look into how to give it to them, I may need to roast the leaves or dehydrate them. Not really sure, but Ill look into it once the plants put off a bunch of leaves. For now I want them to grow stronger and make alot of growth. The cats love the stuff so I think they will like the ones I am growing as well.
Maybe in a year or so they will grow alot, being part of the Mint family I will not underestimate their growing abilities. As Spearmint was ready to harvest on the first year, not sure about this Catnip or the lemon balm I have.
Hoping this winter the plants will have enough energy stored up and will go dormant until the weather warms back up. Curious to see what their flowers look like. I wonder if it will be little spires like the Spearmint has.
Now I have three mint plants growing. So far it seems like the Spearmint is the most vigorous. But maybe over time the same will happen to the Catnip and Lemon Balm. If they do I may need to move them. But for now ill just keep an eye on them and see how they do.
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In this video I share my experience growing slips, which are new sprouts that come off Sweet Potatoes. I do this by soaking a Sweet Potato in water and over time it will send out new growth. By waiting a few days or weeks depending on length they will keep growing. And when ready I can cut them off, by going all the way to the base of the potato and cut it off. Its important to take off the lower leaves as they will rot if they sit in the water dish. Placing them in the dish of water will promote new roots and become independent plants.
I had a few ready in this video for planting, back during the spring time I took my slips outside and put them in the ground. They did not all fare well, though I learned later on I should have grown them much longer. I have a mulch pile behind the trellis that I plant them in. So hopefully if they do produce it will be easy to pull up the spuds.
I give them a little water after planting them, and give them time to adjust. Most of them had to be replaced once or twice before taking in the ground. But now many months later they have indeed started growing vines. Not as quick as my spuds were growing but still glad they survived. I had a little bit of hay left over from my previous soil testing method. Worked well though I ran out of hay, so using wood chips is what I decided to grow them in.
Next year im going to try to grow the slips much longer and hope that will solve the mortality rate of these. Along with making them faster growers, as of right now the spuds are growing much faster than the slips. We shall see come fall if the slips or spuds produced more.
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One of my tomato plants is doing quite well, its as tall as me with the help of the cage I built around it. We have gotten about half a dozen tomatoes so far. Maybe we will get a few more before the plant is done for the year.
It has outgrown the cage and is now overflowing on top of the sweet potato beds. A few of the tomatoes reached the ground and had to be cut off, but many of them started to ripen on the vine and I harvest them when they just start to blush on their bottom.
Next year I will try to start them earlier, and due to that I should be able to make many clones of them to grow. This year I started some cuttings in the middle of the summer and they did not have enough time to form flowers and fruit. Maybe next year will be different for the cuttings.
When it comes to these tomatoes, I find giving them as much space as possible works well as they tend to over grow the cages. Maybe I need some better welded wire cages but for now I am using some smaller plastic ones.
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fallsweetpotatoes
I have been growing these from spuds and slips since early spring, soon it will be time to harvest the new spuds underground. Looking forward to it as I used 100% hardwood chips. So digging these spuds out I hope should be easy. Another media I have grown these in is hay. And that was very easy to harvest the spuds. So curious to see how the hardwood chips work out for getting to the spuds. Really amazed with how few bugs munch on the sweet potato leaves, curious to see how affected the underground spuds will be when I harvest.
One of the two raised beds has a wire structure going over to the top, giving the sweet potato vines a double level for growth. I can see the lower level is already forming some yellow leaves, soon enough the upper level will be as well as they are newer growth.
Waiting for the frost to show up before I am really focused on pulling them up. With these kind of harvests the longer I can wait the better. I think the potato plants will be producing all the way up the freeze when the leaves fall off. Or whenever the plant feels its right to drop the leaves.
I two my two raised beds in this video. One of them I used slips and the other I used spuds. I did not grow the slips very long so I may need to give them another try next year but much longer this time around. The spuds I cut up and put in the ground did great but I would rather use slips if I could.
The leaves have been tasty, I munch on them as I check on the plant. I should harvest the leaves just before I harvest the spuds and make use of them. I probably have hundreds of leaves so not sure what I will do with all of them. I can always use them for chop and drop gardening. But I will cross that bridge when I get there.
These raised beds I built with @ibt have really been useful. And if the hardwood chips work out Ill probably keep using them for growing sweet potatoes.
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I found some extra footage though its pretty short, so I talked about their life cycle a little bit in the video. Also it includes some video that I took using my modified GH3 camera using an infrared bandpass filter.
Footage includes the bees visiting the boards I made for them, all of this is at normal speed but the bees move so fast I normally slow down the video by half. Easy to do when I have 60 FPS video to work with. But in this case I left it at normal speed. They stay quite busy up till the end of season for them around April. So all of this video is from last spring, but I am going to do it all again next spring!
Planning on doing a follow up post on my Mason bee project showing how I store them and showing off next years bee boards I have built for them. I have nearly completely filed the cubbies for them which would give the bees probably over a capacity of 10,000.
This year was the first time I used the boards and they worked to great success. But I had a high male population this year due to using less than adequate homes in the previous year. But this year I got many females produced so it should be exciting to see how active these boards are next spring. In the video you can also see my 2x4 homes that were my first generation of mason bee homes. Though they cannot be cleaned and I plan on disposing of them after anything emerges from them. Its not a good idea to keep them around as if mites are inside they will spread to my healthy bees and make them slower to produce homes.
My infrared camera was modified by a company called Lifepixel, they removed the hot-mirror and replaced it with a full spectrum mirror. Using bandpass filters I can then isolate the light that comes into the camera. In this case it was infrared light. I use this camera alot when going to state parks or other places out in nature but it was also fun to use it a little on my bees. I was worried they would be too fast to capture with my special camera but was surprised to notice they were indeed visible.
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As I build the second box, everything comes into place quite nicely. I build them from the bottom up, starting with the brood box. I use long brad nails to put it all together. It was made easy as there were predrilled holes for where I shot my nails into. I was a little worried brad nails would not be enough but once I had them all in there it was quite strong. That way the boards were cut with a finger design seems to be the way to go with these boards. Not sure I would have been able to make them, so glad bought them and then assembled the boxes.
Once the brood box is built, I put the frames in the box to make sure its all square. They fit well so I move onto the feeder box, also where I keep the sugar water I will be supplementing their diet with.
After assembly of the boxes, I moved onto painting them. I used three to four coats of outdoor paint and filled any gaps in the fingers in the wood with extra paint. I only painted the outside and left the inside bare. After painting and touching up I moved onto sanding down the tops, as the paint I got on the tops makes the sections stick and pill paint off the sides sometimes.
Once painting is done, I will wait for cooler weather and start working in the woods to set up these homes I assembled and painted. I am waiting for cooler weather as there are many ticks in the forest, and I would rather avoid them if possible.
My plans are to set up 4x4 posts resting on concrete blocks, that will bring the hives a few feet off the ground. And I can coat the 4x4 posts with tanglefoot to minimize the ability for hive beetles to climb into the beehives. From what I have read the bees do not mess with tanglefoot, but the beetles have to cross the barrier and get stuck in it. Unlike the bees that fly around it and do not have to deal with the stuff. I also have some prep work to do around where the hives will be located. I plan on clearing out ten feet around them to keep plants from growing up around the hives. And so my bee suit does not catch on thorns or other things that may rip the suit and exposing me to bees.. haha do not want.
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