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Still in a drought here in Iowa so am getting annoyed with having to water the garden about every other day right now. Planted green beans twice this year, 1st time I think I may have planted a tad early and 2nd time have no idea why they did not come up so am resigned that it is a lost cause...

I buy the bush variety and put a tomato planter over the mound. It will climb it not overtake my garden

This is the same tiller I have. Bought it off craiglist for $70 about 15 years ago and put about $100 in repairs at a small motors shop a few years later replacing some bad gaskets. When I loaded it back up the guy told me he bet this thing just chews up turf as they don't make them this heavy...

This story is a little off topic but I bought an old Montgomery Ward tiller off Craigslist about 15 years ago for $75. A few years after I bought it I could get it started but it would not keep firing unless I hit it with some starting fluid. Took it into a local mower shop that worked on small...

I collect my lawn clippings and lay them in my garden where the plants are not growing. It keeps the weeds down and it composts throughout the summer. I till my garden in the fall and spring so they just compost over the winter and adds more organic matter to the soil. It sure beats hoeing...

Been such a rainy year here I didn't get my garden planted until right before Memorial Day because it was too wet to till it before then. May have some yellow squash ready within a week but everything else is still way behind and already have people at work who take my excess harvest wondering...

Won't plant the bulk of the garden till late April at the earliest, still will have possibility of frost this far north if you do it any sooner but onions and radishes will probably plant as soon as onions arrive at the local stores. Don't have a huge garden but I plant in small quantity of...

Some farmers around here will plant white radish as a cover crop which helps loosen up compacted soil. Would this work on a small garden in my backyard too possibly? Anyone tried this before, if I plant them here soon will they compost down with the winter kill by the time I am ready to till...

An update on this, so 1 of the 3 pepper plants survived as did the cherry tomato plant. Never sprayed any fungicide on any of it and they both were pretty healthy this summer. Transplanted another tomato plant in the same spot as the one that died, it too grew just fine, July was a pretty dry...

I haven't on this lawn yet. I'm very careful if I do not to use the clippings once I have. I'm still skeptical about it being disease but I'll spray some fungicide to be on the safe side. Just based on the kind of weather we had when these plants went south I'm still leaning more towards too...

OK, back on topic. Here are the closer pictures requested. Thoughts? Cherry Tomato Plant. Still seems somewhat healthy except of the lower bit but there are some green tomatoes on it. Bell pepper plant that I just noticed this morning still has a bit of life left but curious to see if it...

Not that simple unfortunately just like the city has ordinances against burning trash and yard debris, noise levels, parking restrictions, etc. I get what you mean by doing what you want but in my opinion if you want that freedom then you should probably live outside of the city limits. I was...

Yeah I can see both sides about the chickens in town debate and many of the suburbs here have some kind of an ordinance in place where if they allow them you can only have a certain number and have to have proper cages and methods to care for them. After just going through selling a home last...

LOL! :lol: Yeah I should explain, my folks live at the farm and I live in town about 30 minutes away so I'm basically a minority owner as I still own a few cows in the herd and am the "hired man" if you want to call it that but I keep pretty involved with our cattle operation. Going out...

I'll try to get a close-up if I can, reason why I am hesitant to think it is disease is they were perfectly healthy up until the time where we got dumped on with a stretch of heavy rains including a stretch where we probably got about 6+ inches in less than a week and it was right after that...

Finally took a couple photos yesterday of my garden. Going to see if anywhere around here might still have some pepper and tomato plants left I can try to get a late harvest of peppers. I've seen some tomato plants that aren't much farther behind what mine was at when it died but pepper plants...

Pretty sure the pepper plants are not going to make it and 1 of the tomato plants is pretty questionable too. Probably going to replace the plants this week once things dry up a bit. Noticed some of my green bean plants even have a little bit of yellowing but they should be OK. Maybe get some...

Yeah, just north of I80 and 40 minutes West of Des Moines. The winds and tornado that hit were far enough south of us thankfully but feel for those that were affected. Lot of water standing in fields in the area, guessing the crop adjustors will be busy in the coming month to accessing...

Yeah it's ironic the last 2 summers we were begging for rain now we just wish it would stop for a bit so things can dry out. Rivers here already too full and could use some dry days to stay out of flood stage. Would gladly send some to other places if we could! We had hay cut last Monday and...

Last 2 summers here it was too dry due to drought, now it's too wet and flooding and I think the rain has put stress on my tomato and pepper plants. Everything else is thriving, onions, lettuce, green beans, yellow squash, and cucumber plants all look very healthy but noticed the tomato and...