Random Picture Thread

[Sailingeric]

Looks like the dirt crop is going to be great this year! All my years growing up as a poor dirt farmer is finally paying off

 

[Chorgey]

Driving to work this morning and saw this. I couldn’t really make out the plate

 

[balrog]

Driving to work this morning and saw this. I couldn’t really make out the plate

Can't come up with Jersey appropriate joke. Picture seems to have stemmed the flow of my creative juices.

 

[grampamark]

Driving to work this morning and saw this. I couldn’t really make out the plate

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Maybe he/she was protesting that “mini pad” wasn’t accepted as a vanity plate.

 

[lumpher]

Ok, the humor is rapidly bleeding out of that 1, so...

 

[AkTom]

Just some cows, they didn’t want any of my bull…

 

[balrog]

Random wilty chard.
Go ahead, do your best.
I came up comically empty.

 

[grampamark]

Where little chards come from?

 

[day_trippr]

Well, first the daddy chard takes the mommy chard out for dinner and drinks...

 

[GrogNerd]

when a mommy chard & daddy chard love each other soooooo much, ...

 

[ehall]

he collard her into the relationship

 

[bracconiere]

Can't come up with Jersey appropriate joke. Picture seems to have stemmed the flow of my creative juices.

i didn't get the humor and though it was out, until i blew it up to try to get the dealer name, and track the car down.....

edit: aren't chard reproduced...well with fapp?

Terms

• staminate cones
• ovulate cones
• sporophylls
• strobilus
• microsporophylls
• macrosporophylls
• heterosporous
• ovules
• seeds
• megasporangium
• megaspore mother cell
• megaspore
• microsporangium
• microspore mother cell
• microspore
• pollen grains

 

[MaxStout]

he collard her into the relationship

 

[Sailingeric]

John Krasinski??

 

[MaxStout]

 

[GrogNerd]

always up for celebrating the French getting their a$$es kicked*

happy Cinco de Mayo

this hombre celebrates 2 days in a row

* my St Crispin Day parties are AF!

 

[grampamark]

My wife and I attended our 50 year college reunion today. It was actually a combined reunion of the classes of ‘70, ‘71, and ‘72. The turnout was pretty small considering that each class probably had 250-300 grads; maybe 50 folks showed up. The evening meal was held in a really unique event facility. From the outside it looked like an ordinary, red metal, farm building, maybe 40’X80’. Inside, however, was a wonderfully weird assortment of Western decor/memorabilia, an extremely well stocked full bar, and a commercial kitchen. The food was excellent (prime rib with several sides and salads and dessert) and, combined with the unconventional setting, made for an enjoyable evening.

In the second pic, I’m the guy with his elbows on the table; my wife and her college roommate have their backs to the camera.

 

[grampamark]

There are places where gravel roads intersect paved highways. Sometimes, vehicles entering the highway move some of the gravel onto the pavement. Sometimes, a truck will drive over some of the gravel and toss it into the air. Sometimes, your vehicle happens to be the one following the truck.

Happened about 40 miles north of Billings while going back to the farm. Went back to the city and spent the rest of the day waiting for a new windshield to be installed. It’s convenient to have a daughter who works at an auto dealership when you need something fixed on short notice. Will venture north again in the morning.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[MaxStout]

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

Pomegranate Gone Mad

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

blossoms that look like real human skulls

 

[soccerdad]

So THAT'S where babies come from!

 

[corkybstewart]

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

at first glance you would think this is a person in a costume, this is actually a real beluga whale

 

[BongoYodeler]

This was the only way I could speak with you in private. That human woman? She’s trying to kill you...

 

[balrog]

They’re red, they’re green, they’re brown
They get that way underground..

My squirrel deterrent topped potatoes in buckets.

 

[day_trippr]

Wait - you can grow potatoes in buckets and get a practical yield? I'm intrigued

Cheers!

 

[ba-brewer]

^
I think I seen another approach where you dont fill the bucket up with soil right away and keep adding soil to get more potatoes.

Seen people growing them inside a bag of potting soil too.

 

[GrogNerd]

A use for fermenter buckets too scratched for This Thing of Ours™

Good job

 

[balrog]

you can grow potatoes in buckets and get a practical yield

Apparently the large the bucket the better, and planting 3 seed potatoes per 5-6gal bucket is better than 4, and a friend used one of them Rubbermaid "totes" I think they're ~30 gallon and did "ok". I did it more as a hobby, and with 3 buckets, 3 seed potatoes ea, got about 6lbs yukon gold last year.

And used them in a salmon nicoise

 

[MaxStout]

I've had good luck growing potatoes in 5 gallon buckets, though the yield is not as good as they would be in larger containers or the ground. But I like to dig them when they are smaller, so it works out. Then slice, fry in a pan with some bacon.

Mmmmm...bacon.

 

[Sailingeric]

Ship in Fog©

Took today while in Newport Oregon

 

[BongoYodeler]

Holy crap!! Just what did this guy do!!??!

 

[grampamark]

Maybe he took it with him and wanted to make sure it stayed.

 

[CKuhns]

Holy crap!! Just what did this guy do!!??!

It might be more about what he said he would do if he ever came back...

 

[MaxStout]

I shot a water tower in Kingsland
Just to watch it pour
When I hear that water running
I'm rolling on the floor

 

[Dland]

Wait - you can grow potatoes in buckets and get a practical yield? I'm intrigued

Cheers!

Apparently the higher soil temps of container growing favor more top growth than potatoes. I used to grow them in 25 gallon tree pots, and the harvest was easy and the potatoes good, but yield not what one would get growing in ground.

But those nursery pots are black, the fact that balrog uses white containers may help yield by keeping soil temps down. Sinking pots in ground would likley help too, but that adds to work load unless one has a digging machine.

 

[MaxStout]

Less nitrogen and more potassium and phosphate encourages better tuber growth and less foliage. But containers will still limit the yield somewhat unless they are large. 5 gallon buckets are cramped, but you can still get a decent yield if you plant smaller varieties, like reds. Russets need lots more room. And the heat factor on the pots and soil does impact it.

 

[balrog]

Apparently the higher soil temps of container growing favor more top growth than potatoes. I used to grow them in 25 gallon tree pots, and the harvest was easy and the potatoes good, but yield not what one would get growing in ground.

But those nursery pots are black, the fact that balrog uses white containers may help yield by keeping soil temps down. Sinking pots in ground would likley help too, but that adds to work load unless one has a digging machine.

Less nitrogen and more potassium and phosphate encourages better tuber growth and less foliage. But containers will still limit the yield somewhat unless they are large. 5 gallon buckets are cramped, but you can still get a decent yield if you plant smaller varieties, like reds. Russets need lots more room. And the heat factor on the pots and soil does impact it.

As Inigo would say, there is too much, let me sum up, if I have this correctly:
I can bury my buckets to encourage better temp?
It sounds like I should severely limit plants per bucket?
I can encourage tuber growth with potassium and phosphate (bone meal)?

Trying to stay on topic here: