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[ben ji]

Saw another line of Ammonia tanks today and did some googling about how its used. I figured it was sprayed on the field but apparently its injected/disc'd into the soil or someting? Rad.

[Katpappy]

Saw another line of Ammonia tanks today and did some googling about how its used. I figured it was sprayed on the field but apparently its injected/disc'd into the soil or someting? Rad.

This was a job I hated.  The gas was disced in the ground but if the wind was blowing the same direction you were traveling, you got lots of the stink to inhale.  It was so bad that I would only travel upwind and I didn't care if the old man had a cow.

[steve dave]

sd dad got sprayed up his torso with some from a faulty hose. they are supposed to have a water tank on them (you can see them in the pics) for stuff like this so you can hose it off if something bad happens but the water tank was empty. had to drive back to town with it and was in the hospital for over a week with really bad burns. has scars up one side from it. anhydrous ammonia is very nasty.

[ben ji]

Weekend project was cleaning up the windbreaks by the house and planting flowers.

Here is all the dead limbs/debris we removed.

[ben ji]

We tilled up the area without grass and planted some perennial bulbs along with scattering wildflower seeds.

Will it bloom? Will it last? Hopefully!

[star seed 7]

What a beautiful day

[ben ji]

These vines were thriving underneath the decades of ponderosa pine needles/leaves and were choking out the trees. Had to pull them all out by hand.

[ben ji]

Tons of Lilac plants out here that have survived pretty well without any attention. Just started blooming in KSU colors.

[420seriouscat69]

Ben Ji, do you guys have a stocked pond on the property out there? Man, my grandparents had a ton and i'd do that all summer when I was younger. Catching 10 LB catfish and snapping turtles like a champ!

[ben ji]

There is a "creek" in the pasture but it doesn't hold water year round, not enough rain for a pond.

Closest we have is the tailwater pit by the corrals that holds runoff from the barn roof and decades of cow poop juice. I've recently seen ducks in here waiting for the rains to fill up the creek.

[WillieWatanabe]

man, Lilacs and pine trees. That's a homestead if I've ever seen one.

[ben ji]

Ben Ji, do you guys have a stocked pond on the property out there? Man, my grandparents had a ton and i'd do that all summer when I was younger. Catching 10 LB catfish and snapping turtles like a champ!

IIRC my uncle made a pond and stocked it with catfish on one of his properties and it lasted about 5 years before there was a drought and the pond dried up.

[ben ji]

man, Lilacs and pine trees. That's a homestead if I've ever seen one.

And currants, a metric F ton of currants. They are blooming now so I'm excited to try their berries in a month or so, apparently they have a pretty unique taste and were used for Jams in old timey days.

[steve dave]

mullberrys and sand hill plums are also ks farm wild disgusting fruits.

[michigancat]

mullberrys and sand hill plums are also ks farm wild disgusting fruits.

My grandma made delicious sand plum jam - AFAIK the addition of pounds of sugar is the only way to make them edible.

Also I had amazing success catching catfish from a creek using mulberries as bait with a bamboo pole when the deer liver didn't work

[Cire]

Mulberry’s are great


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[meow meow]

as a kid, we used to find gooseberries in our pastures, pick them and eat them on the spot.  can't remember what they tasted like, a little tart i'm sure, but we loved them.  not sure there are any around anymore.  anyone heard of gooseberries?  NE Kansas btw.

[ben ji]

as a kid, we used to find gooseberries in our pastures, pick them and eat them on the spot.  can't remember what they tasted like, a little tart i'm sure, but we loved them.  not sure there are any around anymore.  anyone heard of gooseberries?  NE Kansas btw.

I believe that gooseberries are a variety of the currant plant so I'm guessing they are still around. We have golden currants out here.

[Cire]

Currants taste weird


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[Tobias]

gooseberry pie is my fave pie

[Tobias]

p tart/sour if they're good

[ben ji]

An ADA accessible church

FYI this church had an outhouse that was not ADA accessible.

[ben ji]

Break time after that, BLT'S for lunch then attempted to weed my dad's "Garden". In reality he didn't even till it, just planted tomatoes and other stuff and ran soaker hoses.

The grass was taller than the garden plants but I did the best I could.

The garden has come along way in the 2 months my brother and I have been out here.

We made my dad actually rototill rows(with manure mixed in) and fence it off so the rabbits cant eat it all.

My brother works at music festivals so is basically unemployed for the next year and will probably be out here all summer to actually tend the garden. He also worked at a commercial nursey for a couple of years so he is our landscape/garden guru.

[ben ji]

A picture of 4 of the apple trees (planted with cow manure). The larger trees behind the apple seedlings are pear trees my uncle planted a couple of years ago. There is a water faucet thing by the quisonet building so Im guessing that is where the automatic watering device will connect to.

Also LOL at the "Danger Keep out" sign on the collapsing out building my dad put up sometime in the last year.

You can also see the incinerator (aka 2 steel drums welded together with hatches at top and bottom) that i cleaned out last year when i was trying to do something productive.

My brother finally ran a soaker hose to the apple and pear tree's that were recently planted, even put some chicken wire around them to keep the dam rabbits out.

We are going to have so much fruit in like 10 years assuming we continue to water them  24/7 365.

[ben ji]

NWKS sunset