I think I can, several farms within a few miles have just planted corn for their fall corn maze projects. Some is about 2’ tall, some are only an inch or 2
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I have 2 different sweets to try with, no idea when freeze temps will hit here
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Hmm, wonder if I can get something like this, would like some corn.
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Sweet corn is good to eat right off the cob, just boil it for a couple minutes to cook it then take some butter and rub over the kernels.
I’m sure other places sell these but in the USA we have special cob handles to poke into the ends to hold it when eating.
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that is going to be sketchy especially on a mountain. 75 days puts it mid-late october without a frost. I don’t know if you can water it to melt the ice off the plant to keep it alive that late or not. It is the ice crystals that magnify the sun and then burn the plant to kill it. You are probably up early enough to go to work to check and see, and there isn’t that much of it.
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From what I can find online it will be a close call,mid October 50 % chance of frost
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Hi Marcus,
Frost to frost are a severe limitation for us alright.
Also true growing solar hours. Mighty short on those in October. Why we have to jump gun earlier than the Summer solstice last month on the growing.
Try the Ed Humes 75 days you pictured.
Next year order in what my wife learned to use.
Their bi-colored 70 days TEMPTRESS.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Biggest favor you can do yourself is let that tiller stay just were it sits. All of us have to rethink the way we have been taught about growing. Unless you are a farmer and wholesaling quantities of one or several crops then plowing, tilling and planting in rows is a waste of energy.
Plenty of time for growing stuff like kale, or any leafy crop, broccoli, peas all good fall crops. If you have a mid-october frost date then you may well get those tomatoes to produce. Our frost date is Mid-September but if we do get a frost then it is normally sort lived and then the indian summer often moves up well into October before persistent frost morning arrive. Potatoes. I just planted some totes and buckets of them two days ago from some store bought that had started chitting in the bag. I will get a lot of small early potatoes out of those containers and it would be no problem caging them and covering with plastic if I wanted to go full season with them. Also with your frost date I would not be afraid to plant some squash. Zukini for sure, but I’d try some Acorn or pie pumpkin and take a chance. Stick something in every container or bucket you can find. Get some red wiggler composting worms and get your boys set up caring for them. They could make some money at it and it is actually interesting. About a $60 dollar initial investment for mail order worms. They will pay for themselves many times over. In the spring of 2020 you could not buy a seed packet or hardly anything else needed for gardening. We could see that again between now and next spring. Cover your ass and spend a little on seeds now. Some places discount them heavily toward the end of summer. Even the box stores but you usually have a very small window to get those sales. I have seen Menard’s dump their Burpee seeds discounted 60 or 70 percent. I guess I could run my mouth about this for ever so I’ll shut up now.
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Main reason I want the tiller functional is for breaking up the sod, enlarging the available space not really for annual tilling. I want to move in the direction of all raised beds for a multitude of reasons but this lower piece is not mine I don’t want to put any structure types on it even a raised bed so It needs to remain a “traditional” garden space.
The tiller was available with a furrowing attachment which would be nice to do potatoes in this big space as well, and a drag would be nice for leveling things out. Just for prepping the area it will be very useful but as funds allow for raised beds I won’t need this plot as much I don’t think. But for this year and next I’ll make best use of it as I can.
The frost issue means I’ll need to get the green house done this year so next year I have starts on hand when the good weather hits. I lost about a month and a half of good weather this year with time of purchase and moving and I know that will put a mighty big dent in harvest but I gotta play the hand I’m dealt for this year.
At this time greens are affordable and available,it’s meat that is the big monthly groceries cost. Hence the rabbit and chicken prep and eventually some small hogs. Not enough room for a cow at all, I’ll have to up my hunting game for the good red meats. I do see deer daily and elk at least twice a week on my drive, plus trapping season also puts meat in the freezer. I have a lot to learn on gardening no doubt
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Corn is based on 50F degree growing days. I think he will be alright with a light frost if he waters them before direct sun hits them which isn’t that big of deal, because the packets only have like 10 seeds in them. It is harder to get them to pollinate, and that might have to be done by hand.
I would be tempted to burn it down with roundup, and then just plant in the dead grass. Make sure it is just roundup, without extended control, etc. Those have residuals. and if you really want to till, You could remove the outer tines and do narrow strips. You have to keep in mind you are on a mountain, and if their stuff washes away, yours is next.
Make sure you have permission to be on and use the property though. People can get awfully upset if you are on their property without permission, and you are talking about raising a garden and hunting on it. Just because they are seemingly not doing anything with it doesn’t give you any right to think you are free to make use of it. It makes for very poor neighbor relations, and I assume you are planning on being there for a while. It is a small town bad news travels fast, and bad reps are hard to shake.
Yes I have permission it is owned by a local timber company, and they have allowed the neighbors for several years to use this space as a garden. My back yard is fenced 35’ onto their property as well and has been for at least the last ten years. I know the owners and have trapped problem never for them in the past, made a good relationship with them. My hunting will be elsewhere, I don’t want to disturb the back yard animals I like seeing them. Only thing that will be shot is if I a bear or cougar shows up. Can’t have predators getting my kids or livestock. But they do allow hunting on their property to the public
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We have black bear wonder through pretty often. We burn all the garbage so nothing for them to eat outside of the time we didn’t bring a bird feeder in that hangs right out side a front picture window and looked out to find a good size feller filling up the whole window reaching for it. We have had them peering in the window a few other times as well. Maybe they think it’s people TV. One evening a mama brought three cubs past. They climbed a tree outside the front and she parked herself at the base. They were gone in the morning. I think black bears are not typically aggressive unlike some of your western varieties.
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Black Bear is relatively evasive to people, unless they have cubs. Pretty easy to scare them off without needing to hurt them. I’d say they’re smarter than the average bear 
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They are problematic with fruit trees around me, I have 2 cherry trees in the back yard that have sustain busted tops and sheared branches from the local bears. They climb up and find a comfy spot reach out grab a branch pull towards them until it snaps and munch every berry on it then move to the next. They can wreck out a orchard during peak season pretty quickly, and they cause the same damaged on timber land ground.
There are programs the timber company’s use to bait bears into deep woods to keep them occupied and not causing damage, and if they become to problematic the invite hunters to thin them out. They are somewhat cat/dog like, they get bored and start chewing on things and knocking things over out of curiosity and boredom. Getting into garbage cans is most people’s main complaints around towns, but I can’t fault then for that. But wrecking fruit trees is a problem to me, that’s valuable food.
Not to mention a bear eating fruit has a taste for it and will be back regularly. Also means they are delicious tasting meat as their diet makes them more tasty. A bear from an orchard, or gorging on blueberries and black berries are fine table fair. A dumpster diving bear? No thanks. Just drive it back up on the mountain and keep it there
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I have tried lots of things to keep out wildlife. The only thing that works is electric fence, and electric netting with a good charger. The one I use now puts out 18 joules. 
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I usually have a multitude of reasons for the rigs I buy, centered around the right price but design and engineering is pretty important. Single overhead cam, exterior water pump, basic fasteners, non adjustable hydraulic lifters, adequate ground clearance, parts availability were key in the geo purchase
6:30 this morning on my way to work the timing belt left the chat
Called the wife she came and got me got off the hill to town for some phone calls located a belt picked it up she dropped me off at the car from no belt disassembled at 8:48 to put together running and driving 9:08. Total wrench turning time on the shoulder of a back high way in the mountains less then 50 minutes
Tools required 10mm shallow (water pump, crank pulley and timing cover bolts) 12mm shallow (loosen alternator belt bracket) 17mm to turn crank and cam back in time
Non interference! Not need to visit pistonmeetsvalve.com!
*Not supposed to be a link just a joke
Side of the road repairs. Minimal tools in a bag kept in the trunk. Harbor freight tools I might add
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You are one in a million, Marcus. Maybe one in ten million. 
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It’s got to be somewhat normal in Europe to see small cars with small trailers cause trucks are not as popular as north America, but I got some darn funny looks around here 
50 miles on the homemade trailer hitch setup, brought home my snowmobile project that has been stored at my dad’s house and my 10’ flat bottom boat on the trailer. Have to replace the deck for the third time it is rotted out. Then go through the bearings and some new tires before it will be a happy trailer again
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