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morning to all of you hope all is well
Yesterday, while planting my started peppers, I grabbed a handful of dirt, and crumbled it around the plant. I noticed that the dirt didn't quit moving. I glanced back to see what it was. I had just crumbled a nest of centipedes, in my bare hand... 8 in all, one big, and 7 little ones. Ffff#ck!
@mendel @GoldNBoy What types of peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, squash do you guys like to plant? Do you prefer older heirlooms or newer hybrids that could have some disease resistance? Do you have your staple plants and then some to play around with, like reapers or ghost peppers etc. Pardon my ignorance but I just got really curious about larger scale planting.
Also, what are your thoughts on healthy soil keeping pests away? I've attributed garden pests mostly to the fact that there are 8 acres of dry grass surrounding a little plot of green goodness, and that's why the bugs come, but I have also heard that if your soil is right as rain then the bugs have a more difficult time. No idea if this is healthy plants in happy soil or healthy microbes keeping the larger nasties away. I'm going to splurge and make a giant batch of og biowar to innoculate the soil, but that will be a one time application as I'm pretty sure the old man bought stock in sevin, but I threatened to steal his cigar collection if I catch him buying that shit. I'm also curious if you guys take steps to address this stuff (preventives for pests) already. The acreage is kept fairly maintained so grasshoppers aren't the biggest issue for us. I'm not looking for specifics since the walls have eyes now, I'm just curious how the big boys do it.
Thanks for the heads up. Gotta get her runnin' right 'cause I've got way too much shit to do around here without her.Replace the fuel filter, and find a way to fill up the filter with stanadyne. I might have spelled it wrong but it's a fuel injection cleaner. I've seen it work magic on tarnished injectors. Also in the kabota you can add a gallon of transmission fluid to a tank of fuel. Truckers still do this with older non-emission engines.
that engine will run off oil in hot weather. engine's with a mechanic fuel pump are not hard to please. the trans fluid cleans the injectors. its a light hydraulic oil, its the additives that help. i figured you had more that a 4 gal tank. a quart or so would be good. what model kabota do you have? my dad bought an L4400 back in 2005. been a real good tractor. not as tough as our old one was. 1968 Massey Ferguson 135 . you could run over a forest with that thing, nothing hurt it. we have a tow truck company. he adds the trans fluid to his older trucks that do not have emissions. we rebuilt an engine for him last year, over 1,000,000 miles with the original injectors.Thanks for the heads up. Gotta get her runnin' right 'cause I've got way too much shit to do around here without her.
Ain't too sure I'd stick a whole gallon of tranny fluid in a four gallon tank, though.
Oops. Week 8Hey all. So popped my head in the garden today and noticed that one section of flowers looked like water dripped on them. But all is dry. They just started week 7 of 9 and I do use terpinator. Frosty to begin with. Anyone ever seen this before?View attachment 699840 View attachment 699839
It's not some sort of a pre cursor to a particular pest is it?Hey all. So popped my head in the garden today and noticed that one section of flowers looked like water dripped on them. But all is dry. They just started week 7 of 9 and I do use terpinator. Frosty to begin with. Anyone ever seen this before?View attachment 699840 View attachment 699839
My Grandaughter laughed so hard at those ducklings. She said they were pushing each other off. Lol:D This made my morning!
Mine is the smallest you can buy, a BX22. Came with a backhoe, front end loader, 60" deck, a box blade, and a wood splitter. Had just shy of 200 hours on it. Bought it back in '07 for $13,500.that engine will run off oil in hot weather. engine's with a mechanic fuel pump are not hard to please. the trans fluid cleans the injectors. its a light hydraulic oil, its the additives that help. i figured you had more that a 4 gal tank. a quart or so would be good. what model kabota do you have? my dad bought an L4400 back in 2005. been a real good tractor. not as tough as our old one was. 1968 Massey Ferguson 135 . you could run over a forest with that thing, nothing hurt it. we have a tow truck company. he adds the trans fluid to his older trucks that do not have emissions. we rebuilt an engine for him last year, over 1,000,000 miles with the original injectors.
Ain't sure. Might want to send me a sample.....:)It's not some sort of a pre cursor to a particular pest is it?
I have watched some of the truckers pour straight delo oil in the tanks so they can make it to the station.that engine will run off oil in hot weather. engine's with a mechanic fuel pump are not hard to please. the trans fluid cleans the injectors. its a light hydraulic oil, its the additives that help. i figured you had more that a 4 gal tank. a quart or so would be good. what model kabota do you have? my dad bought an L4400 back in 2005. been a real good tractor. not as tough as our old one was. 1968 Massey Ferguson 135 . you could run over a forest with that thing, nothing hurt it. we have a tow truck company. he adds the trans fluid to his older trucks that do not have emissions. we rebuilt an engine for him last year, over 1,000,000 miles with the original injectors.
Love to. You ever get North of the border?Ain't sure. Might want to send me a sample.....:)
@mendel @GoldNBoy What types of peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, squash do you guys like to plant? Do you prefer older heirlooms or newer hybrids that could have some disease resistance? Do you have your staple plants and then some to play around with, like reapers or ghost peppers etc. Pardon my ignorance but I just got really curious about larger scale planting.
Also, what are your thoughts on healthy soil keeping pests away? I've attributed garden pests mostly to the fact that there are 8 acres of dry grass surrounding a little plot of green goodness, and that's why the bugs come, but I have also heard that if your soil is right as rain then the bugs have a more difficult time. No idea if this is healthy plants in happy soil or healthy microbes keeping the larger nasties away. I'm going to splurge and make a giant batch of og biowar to innoculate the soil, but that will be a one time application as I'm pretty sure the old man bought stock in sevin, but I threatened to steal his cigar collection if I catch him buying that shit. I'm also curious if you guys take steps to address this stuff (preventives for pests) already. The acreage is kept fairly maintained so grasshoppers aren't the biggest issue for us. I'm not looking for specifics since the walls have eyes now, I'm just curious how the big boys do it.