Planted a Baby Bel cheese round in the front yard. We‘re wondering how long it‘ll take her cheese tree to start producing cheese for harvest?
I guess these geniuses are overlooking your problem which is really that the bushings in the steering column are worn out and the shifter works like a limp noodle. A cheap aftermarket floor shifter keeps locking up on you as there is no real way to mound it so you want a good four speed with a granny gear and the shifter coming from the transmission case. Any you can locate in the junkyard in a Chevy truck between 1955 and 1988 will fit. Just be sure your clutch disc is splined correctly for your new input shaft. The rest is just hacksaw work.
Everything will fit to the engine but not to the rear end. The '49 Chevy had a closed drive line. Which means that the drive shaft is enclosed in a tube that is solid to the differential. Everything can be changed but if he is using the Muncey transmission to save money he may not be all that far ahead.
Cheese trees take up to 5 years to produce cheese. Regular Baby Bel takes 3.5 years. Baby Bel lite takes 2 years. And you need both Regular and Lite to make sure they cross pollinate. Cheese trees grow better in Wisconsin, though.
Cheese takes at least 13 months to grow. It starts out as a cheese turd and develops into a cheese culture. Pretty cool of your daughter to care about cheese when most people only know what cheese is when they accidentally wipe their butts and rub their face without washing their hands first. I've learned that the hard way many times.
Cheese trees are typically planted as a transplant. Sow the cheese indoors in a loose potting mixture about 6 to 8 weeks before the last expected date of frost in the Spring. Soil temperatures should be between 70° and 75° F for optimum germination. Most cheese germinates in 6 to 12 days. Sow cheese on top of the media in flats and cover lightly with vermiculite or other media. Mist to keep surface moist or cover with moist newspaper or clear plastic. When most of the cheeselings emerge, remove the newspaper or plastic and allow the cheese to get plenty of sunlight or place a bank of flourescent lights about 4 inches above the flat, moving the light upward as the cheese grows. When the cheeselings get their first true set of leaves, carefully transplant them into individual containers. Dig under cheese, lift and separate them carefully to avoid breaking fragile stems or damaging tender roots. Make a hole in the soil in the transplant pot and lower the cheese into it to the first leaf stem. Roots develop along the buried stem. When the date for planting is approaching, move cheese outdoors to a protected area where they get full sun but are out of the wind. Bring them indoors at night or during cold snaps. Continue this for three to four days before transplanting. Cheese treese are more susceptible to low temperature injury than tomatoes. Do not set them out until daytime temperatures are in the 70° F range. Cheese damaged by cold become hard and stunted. Use hot caps if necessary to protect them from cold nights.
