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Saturday, June 02, 2018
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Wildcat83
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NE Wisconsin
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Birds eye view of the patch... I climbed about 1/3 of the way up a silo. Probably need to climb higher next time, but here’s what I have going:
To the left of my sons excavator right in front of a fence post there are 2 giant sunflowers. From there wrapping around the bend on the outside are 3 rows of popcorn, glass gem, giant indian corn. At the end of that near the last fence post are about 20 more giant sunflowers. After that some tall corn. The plan was for these wrapping the west edge would cut down some wind.
There are my 6 main plants: bottom/near excavator the 681 House and 1666 Steil. Middle pair is the 1904 Steil and a Treece FP, and top pair 1521 Cutrupi and 407 Hamilton. These 6 have approx 30x30 each.
Far half, tip of patch has all decorative, mini, gourds, etc. Planted about 10 ft apart and will let them grow randomly through each other.
Everything in between is weeds. I’m only clearing 3-4 feet around each plant as they grow for now. The fence is up to keep geese out, those pricks will eat anything. They don’t wander far down that trail, so no fence on the far end. Guinnea hens have been through patch daily and don’t bother plants, hopefully eating bugs.
The patch itself was a spot we raised 6 pigs in 2 years ago. Hopefully some nitrogen is broke down enough now to be used by plants, that’s why I decided to grow there this year. Next pic I will climb higher, but it’s a 120 ft silo and I’m not as spry as I once was. I basically stopped and took this pic when I started to get winded from climbing, lol.
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