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Barney Oatmeal · 07-08-2010, 08:46 AM

Pics are coming, folks

Charles, thanks a ton for the well-worded info! I kinda "inherited" this place - I live on the place next door and was asked if I'd come in on the banana operation when he lost his previous manager - I think the guy left because of dispute over amount of labor, honestly, and it's still a huge, looming issue, kinda like an grown bull elephant out there in the field, lurking for whomever enters. I've never fully caught up in eight months' time, but am getting closer to it. We've only got about 1/4 of the operation under irrigation at present, as I am kept on a genuine shoestring budget that is just going to HAVE to change when we start harvesting, or I'm going to have to withdraw from the project as my predecessor did. My regular work is restoring older Goldwing motorcycles and the farming has kept me away from it for months now, cutting my income by about 40% - that cannot continue. I'm told that harvest will be pretty much continuous until frost - if so, this will be far more than the two of us can bite off and chew........

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Barney Oatmeal Spongebrain Carharrtpants Location: Rural Indiantown, Florida Find me on the map! Zone: 10 Name: Barney Oatmeal Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 24 BananaBucks : 20,888 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 7 Times Was Thanked 17 Times in 9 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times	Re: What are signs that my Orinocos are ready for harvest? Pics are coming, folks Charles, thanks a ton for the well-worded info! I kinda "inherited" this place - I live on the place next door and was asked if I'd come in on the banana operation when he lost his previous manager - I think the guy left because of dispute over amount of labor, honestly, and it's still a huge, looming issue, kinda like an grown bull elephant out there in the field, lurking for whomever enters. I've never fully caught up in eight months' time, but am getting closer to it. We've only got about 1/4 of the operation under irrigation at present, as I am kept on a genuine shoestring budget that is just going to HAVE to change when we start harvesting, or I'm going to have to withdraw from the project as my predecessor did. My regular work is restoring older Goldwing motorcycles and the farming has kept me away from it for months now, cutting my income by about 40% - that cannot continue. I'm told that harvest will be pretty much continuous until frost - if so, this will be far more than the two of us can bite off and chew........ __________________ "We Dig Our Fingers In The Ground, Heave And Turn Our World Around" (Tom Waits)