opelmanta1900 wrote:NUMI!!! Much love brother, great to see you here... I'm planning on a crop of spring Numi-corn this year!
'Bout brings a tear to my old crusty eyes, so glad to see someone still keeping that one alive.
Sadly, the ground where the property sits is poor and corn will grow, but not well enough or reliable to get a decent crop the past few years. Plus, I have barely been able to keep the yard mowed where we were residing since the fire. That's been a few places and the wreck in late May '15 slowed me down, AND I packed on 60 pounds from the inactivity and prednisone. I couldn't even keep the bush hogging caught up on the 7 or eight acres that adjoins the 5 acres plus where the house sat and the 7+ acres adjoining it on one side of the road. Now, I'm trying to reclaim some it from the trees that grew in!!
I started push mowing the yard at the small farm house we rented for a couple of years. That was 3 miles of pushing, so it helped me lose almost forty pounds, but I packed a few more back on since we bought a new (to us) home in an adjoining community. That puts me 7 miles from the farm, but now we have a pool and Ellen had shoulder surgery this summer. I was pool boy and extra hand for her over the majority of the summer. The yard at this place is so small, it only takes about an hour, maybe less. I tried to have a few items at the farm on some of the acreage around the old house place. The deer ate the Purple hull peas and tried to get to the watermelons. Luckily they were a yellow meated with thick rind, so they didn't succeed. One of the granddaughters LOVES watermelons so she will be 4 next year and wants to help me plant her some more watermelons.
This place is quite a large home and has a patch of pea gravel over the spot where all the underground utilities tie in, I planted 3 types of sunflowers next to the home in that spot and a couple more. Next year, I think I will plant some really tall growing corn and red okra in that spot, hehe.
Thanks for keeping that going, the move got to mine at the farm and I have decided to try a few different types next year at the farm and hope for a better rain pattern.