How are you dealing with lock-down during this crisis?

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  1. squidward

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    Squirck!!!
     
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    Grey Matter Well-Known Member Donor

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    Zappa!? TF is wrong with you!? Show some damn respect ffs
     
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    Lots of things no doubt
     
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    Grey Matter Well-Known Member Donor

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    #metoo
     
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    Ha! My fighting days are long in the past. I did use my training once or twice about thirty years ago and it worked for me, but ironically the techniques used in my defense were the most basic one of block and punch. But then again if you don't manage to block there may not be an opportunity to punch; and so the basics are our friends.
     
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    It's gun talk, so...
     
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    It was a joke........
     
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    I know. I make my own balls and blow them away :)
     
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    Last Christmas, my mother-in-law gave me a trailer barbecue pit/offset smoker that belonged to my father-in-law. The pit was about 20 years old, and not in terrible shape, but the firebox was rusted out in the back and bottom, and the upright smoker section was rusted out in the bottom too. It was a great fixer-upper project for sure. Since I was going to have to cut various circles and pieces out of 1/4" plate, and since I had always wanted a plasma cutter anyway, I bit the bullet and bought it. I'm generally very frugal, if not an outright cheapskate, but what the heck, I wanted it, so I splurged and got it. And I had a grand ol' time working on that pit, fixing the bad places, and modifying it to my liking. Built all new cooking grates, added a bigger expanded metal shelf to it, an ash box, and such. Love the pit now, and cook in it practically every weekend.

    My neighbor wanted to add a front-end loader to his small tractor - he found one for cheap, but it wasn't made for his tractor. He went ahead and got it though, and we fabricated some brackets and supports to attach it. The plasma cutter came in handy. Have also cut some other brackets and things for other projects. To be honest, I don't use the plasma cutter enough to warrant the expenditure. It's just a hobby. But, the way I see it, I got a $4500 bbq pit for free, so I spent the $1200.

    Here's a pic from the net, my pit is very similar.

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    Where do you live, as in growing season? Hope you get a good crop of homegrown tomaters this year. Man, there ain't nuthin' like a good ol' homegrown tomater. And them fried green tomatoes! Oh man!
     
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    If you were my neighbor...:)

    I'd like to fabricate something like that for side $ but damn, factor in your labor and the cost of steel! Hard to turn a profit unless you can source steel at whole sale rates.
     
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    Alabama.... Zone 7 last frost April 15.
     
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    What varieties are you growing?

    I'm in Zone 9 south of Houston. As spring approaches each year, sometimes I will get anxious and brave and I have set out transplants as early as the second week of February. When the weather cooperates, we have the first tomatoes in town! But when the weather doesn't cooperate, I'm buying all new plants. This year, I did something a little different and have been successful so far.

    I bought my plants around February 15th. Transplanted them to 1 gallon pots. Then I put them out during the day, and brought them in at night. Did this for 2 weeks, then transplanted into the ground the first week of March. Plants are doing spectacular. Already have some tomatoes that are 1.5 inches in diameter. Gonna be a nice early crop this year!

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    I work just down the street from Steel Supply. They have a scrap yard they let you pick through, and charge by the pound at a significant savings over new. Of course, you won't find full sheets of plate there, but some good stuff. I buy all my steel there, they generally have what I need. They even have various sizes of pipe cut-offs up to 30" in diameter, wouldn't be hard to get enough stuff to build a pit and trailer.
     
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    Beautiful tomatos! Have two hydroponic tomato greenhouses up the road.. 90 miles , which is relatively near to us, we are/were given lots of tomatos.
    Had to swing by my office to record payments, sitting in here with the shades drawn and the door locked.
    A major objective during this lock down is that I can get my clients to come for business just on Thurs and Fridays.
     
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    If we get a frost I will cover the plants. I have a lot of plastic pots lying around. But I also have all these glass gallon jugs. Just cut the bottom off and they would work well. Just make sure to pull them the next morning. Just leave the top on the jugs and use it as a handle. Pretty glass cloches at little expense.
     
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    I suppose a 5 gallon bucket would work also.

    I'm growing mostly hybrids this year. But always plant half a dozen "Cherokee Purples." Best tomato ever for taste! And for cherry tomatoes, I go with "Sungold." It's an orange variety, and absolutely scrumptious.

    In all, I have 19 tomato plants, 4 cucumber plants, and 15 hot pepper plants. I already have a cucumber big enough to pick this evening! And already have been picking peppers too. Amazingly early crop this year. I ran across a variety of jalapeno called "Early Flame." And it is definitely early. But, it doesn't have the heat content I like, quite mild. Luckily, I have plenty of other "regular" jalapenos, some Serranos, and some cayennes.
     
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    ~ HA ! Welcome to the club. With me I was running/jogging since high-school. Knees don't like that -especially as we age and/or gain weight. Now I walk uphill . :above: :happycry: "Going up ? "
     
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    It's been about three days now of practice and the ol' knees are aching a bit. But more of a worry to me than my knees is my neck, which I injured in my youth. I am being careful and monitoring my health as I proceed. But I am also keeping my paint brushes handy in case I am forced to switch hobbies.
     
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    I made it up to him with pumpkin scones...hot out of the oven
     
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    How do they do when it gets hot? I planted 6 Rutgers and 6 Homestead. I don't care for Cherokee Purple. They spoil way too fast. My favorite is Better Bush.
     
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    I have to agree, they don't hold up as well as other tomatoes, but the "silky" texture and bold flavor make up for it in my mind. As for hot weather, especially with Houston hot weather, none of the varieties do well. That's why it's important for us to get the plants growing as early as possible.

    The sungolds do pretty well all summer, but the flavor definitely trails off once it gets hot. I have done Rutgers before, good tomato, but wasn't that prolific for me. It is sometimes hard to find the various heirloom varieties down here. I used to do nothing but hybrids, then one year I switched over and did nothing but heirlooms. My production was down and the plants did seem more susceptible to the various wilts and blights and all that crud. Last couple of years I did a mixture of hybrids and heirlooms.

    Hope you have good luck with yours this spring. Do you ever do fried green tomatoes?
     
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    ~ I have been consuming too much ice cream ... :crazy:
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    My wife loves fried green tomatoes. I would rather have eggplant or fried squash. I ain't had no good tomatoes since moving south. And that is a bad thing since the Chandler Mountain grows a lot of tomatoes. I could raise a nice herd of hogs with the stuff they throw away. The put down plastic. I refuse to use such an annoying product as plastic. But I grew some really good watermelon two years ago. I used the bulk of those gifting the guys on the brush removal crew. They dropped several loads of brush trimmings in return. My problem could be persistent herbicides. If that is true my green beans will also suffer. But we had a pretty good harvest last time.
    I just let my garden sit last year and didn't plant much of anything. Most of the garden was just sitting there growing weeds. I used it as a goat pasture.... I had to have more ground for my goats because I KNEW the goats were being killed by worms. Last year may have been a pretty good year. The "broccoli time" passed with torrential rains. That's when I put the goats on it. The goats ate it down to about an inch high. Higher in some places and Bermuda grass was intruding and also some kinda Johnsongrass. So I sprayed it all... except my rosebush and red hot Poker. Gonna plant something tomorrow gotta check soil temps.
     

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