Brown Thumbs 2nd attempt 2013

[Brown Thumb]

New Toy for this year. I hope to be able to mow between the rows and not pull weeds.
1000 + plants again
I rototilled this plot about 10 times and york raked between tillings to get the rocks out and I still had to tuck some of the plastic mulch under the dirt due to rocks lifting up the mulch layer.

 

[johnlee1933]

New Toy for this year. I hope to be able to mow between the rows and not pull weeds.
1000 + plants again
I rototilled this plot about 10 times and york raked between tillings to get the rocks out and I still had to tuck some of the plastic mulch under the dirt due to rocks lifting up the mulch layer.

Looking good. You planning on selling commercially or just a large family? LOL

 

[AmaxB]

I need one of those deals your using to put that plastic down,,,swweeet looks real good OOh that is a little tobacco your putting in there.

 

[Knucklehead]

Good luck on your grow this year my friend. That was an impressive amount of baccy you produced last year, and you were mighty generous with it. Folks like you make this forum what it is. (I mean in a good way, lol)

 

[grgfinney]

Good luck on your grow this year Tom i hope mine goes a quarter as well as yours did last year

 

[workhorse_01]

It looks amazing! pretty soon it'll be up to your eyeballs as you well know, then you'll be saying why did I do this again?

 

[Brown Thumb]

Thank You Guys, I wish you all the best of Luck Also.
The way Mother Nature has been acting Some one really Pissed Her Off.
We had nothing but thunder storms for 3 days then 3 Days of 30 to 40 mph wind gusts.
My veggie plants are all wind burned. the tomato plants are ok and so are the tobacco plants no wind burn, Weird.
The wind Blew up a bunch of plastic mulch that sucked to put back under and was beating the death out of the plants. I guess that is one way to harden them off
I got 500 plants in and doing good 500+to go I get a 2 week break since I waited to start the other half hopefully it will make the harvest easier.
This year Baccy Patch consists of 100+ of each.
YTB
Big Gem
Yellow Mammoth
One Sucker
Catteron
Ismir
Rustica
Havana
Va509
Va309
Have a Super Holiday Everbody.

 

[Chicken]

is that a DRIPLINE i see?????

and if you spray that middle part with weed killer, you wont have to mow it,

 

[Brown Thumb]

is that a DRIPLINE i see?????

and if you spray that middle part with weed killer, you wont have to mow it,

Yes it is. Just in case.
I should have offset it that is why the plants are on the bottom of the plastic. The tube the drip line goes in leaves a big trench in the middle and I did not look when I was laying it down.
I wanted to spray the center but did not know what to use without killing the baccy or smoking it. any ideas.
Good luck Chicken with your patch this.

 

[deluxestogie]

Be cautious with weed killer near tobacco. Tobacco plants are exquisitely sensitive to herbicide drift.

Bob

 

[SmokesAhoy]

Yeah I broke new ground and put roundup on the new growth a month before laying in the tobacco but I'm starting to get new-new growth, I'm waiting till there is a windless day to reapply.

This year is an experiment growing veggies at the perimeter of the plot, I'm just worried about deer though, I planted rusticas in between the zukes, maybe it'll give them some heartburn

 

[BigMikeChevy]

out here i get a helper with the water hose and i run down the weeds with a weed dragon (torch) just got the heat them up not burn em they get a little shinny they die. just do it in the begining of the season because once it gets to hot and everthing dries out you have more chance for fire. but when everything is green the water hose it just a back up. playing with a 500,000 btu torch is a lot of fun.

 

[Chicken]

next year ill irrigate with a drip line, IM MOVING BACK TO MY '' PROPERTY ''.....

the only thing holding me where, im at is this years bacca crop... and the crap [ literally ] ive done to the ground,,, when harvest/drying time is over, IM MOVING BACK.

im very intrested in how the dripline works for your bacca, i dont recall seeing anyone use it,, but ive read, where, bacca dont like to have WET FEET....

the bacca fields i deliver to use overhead irrigation, by a massive sprinkller sytem that WALKS THE FIELD as it water's, they call it a '' pivot''

 

[workhorse_01]

I'm beginning to see how those wildfires start each year in California. LOL

out here i get a helper with the water hose and i run down the weeds with a weed dragon (torch) just got the heat them up not burn em they get a little shinny they die. just do it in the begining of the season because once it gets to hot and everthing dries out you have more chance for fire. but when everything is green the water hose it just a back up. playing with a 500,000 btu torch is a lot of fun.

 

[Brown Thumb]

I think I will stick to my weed wacker. It only takes my kid 45 min. to do it.
Fire and plastic do not go well together I hear. I do use 1 yr. weed killer around the electric fence and it works good.
The deer do not see the electric fence wire even tho I put rag flags on the wire. We have a deer that the kids call limpey, She got caught in the fence and wrapped her leg around it when she was a doe and really messed herself up I had to cut the wire to free her.
The Plants are just sitting there. They are hardened up pretty good and only one Fatality so far.

 

[Knucklehead]

That patch gives me a back ache just looking at it. Great job, a lot of work there.

 

[Brown Thumb]

That patch gives me a back ache just looking at it. Great job, a lot of work there.

Knucks, Your Back Ache is not far away with all your plants.

 

[AmaxB]

Is there an end to that patch it goes on and on. Like seeing those tobacco dudes growing there.

 

[Knucklehead]

There's going to be some pissed off soccer players when they show up for the next game and see what you did to their field. Sleep with one eye open my friend. LOL

 

[workhorse_01]

Oh! It's a soccer field I was wondering where the goal post was!