injinji
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I'm having to pick my squash early. Stir-fry and salads is all I've done so far. Rot is real bad already. It's raining almost every day, so I guess the rainy season is here.
How Does Your Garden Grow??????
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shnkrmn
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It might just be the shifty spring weather.
myke
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Ya but 5 seeds sprung to life in under 7 days,something isnt right.Maybe needs soaking in water first?
The others in pots ive kept warmer,i see signs of life today.Lets hope we get a nice September so they'll finish.
BlandMeow
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Been way too busy to even get in the site lately. Garden is pumping, but holy shit the aphids are nuts right now. I'm rotating between Neem, captain jacks dead bug, and DE to try and keep them at bay. Mostly on the lettuce and trying to keep it that way.
Harvesting garlic scapes and lettuce so far. Strawberry harvest has been fantastic. Peas should be next in a week or two, along with blueberries. Beans a little ways behind that. Hope everyone is doing well!
Trying my hand at cloning the best of my blueberry bushes. Will see how this pans out.
Harvesting garlic scapes and lettuce so far. Strawberry harvest has been fantastic. Peas should be next in a week or two, along with blueberries. Beans a little ways behind that. Hope everyone is doing well!
Trying my hand at cloning the best of my blueberry bushes. Will see how this pans out.
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shnkrmn
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I'm getting a new roof on Friday (hail damage) just as I got all my deck blumats dialed in. One container is too big to safely move. Going to make a plywood shelter.
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Rose balsam known in China as the immortal phoenix flower. Different parts of the plant are used as traditional remedies for disease and skin afflictions. Juice from the leaves is used to treat warts and snakebite, and the flower is applied to burns. This species has been used as indigenous traditional medicine in Asia for rheumatism, fractures, and other ailments. In Korean folk medicine, this impatiens species is used as a medicine called bongseonhwa dae (봉선화대) for the treatment of constipation and gastritis. Chinese people used the plant to treat those bitten by snakes or who ingested poisonous fish.[8] Juice from the stalk, pulverised dried stalks, and pastes from the flowers were also used to treat a variety of ailments. Vietnamese wash their hair with an extract of the plant to stimulate hair growth. One in vitro study found extracts of this impatiens species, especially of the seed pod, to be active against antibiotic-resistant strains of Helicobacter pylori. It is also an inhibitor of 5α-reductases, enzymes that converts testosterone to dihydrotestosterone (active form of testosterone), thus reducing action of testosterone in our body.In Korea, the flowers are crushed and mixed with alum to produce an orange dye that can be used to dye fingernails. Unlike common nail varnish, the dye is semi-permanent, requiring dyed nails to grow off over time in order to remove any traces of color.
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injinji
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My veg buddy had 8 volunteers last year. Due to their location, (and the way they looked) we figure they were most likely ass cheese f3's. One of them was a male, so. . . . He gifted me a few ounces of V1 and V2 and both had lots of good seeds. I haven't popped any of them yet, but will try to get them in the rotation soon.
Dreaming1
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Always something. Blows my mind when it goes right.
I pulled green beans and new potatoes last night. My wife made a potato salad with them tonight. Pretty good. These made little bushes. I thought they would climb my vertical elements. Next year I have to find some pole beans to try. These were lake and purple hull. The purples were 1 to 3 with the greens for production. Id skip them next time.
Bareback
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Blueberry is a bitch to clone. I’ve been doing it for a few years now with limited success. I’ve managed to have some success with different techniques but a dedicated aero cloner has produced the best for me. Good luck.
Bareback
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I got two really good pickings and bam the damn bloom rot kicked in and now I’m getting one mess a week.
We had sixty mile an hour winds from that front and laid my corn down flat but as of today almost all of it stood back up. It took me four hours to pick up all the limbs from that wind.
But those purple hulls taste so good.
injinji
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Yes, I was having rotten squash even before it started raining every day. (although it looks like the rainy season is not really here yet. No rain for the last two days, and no good chances until next weekend)
We had another storm lay down the rest of the corn in that patch. But it's all laid in one direction, so I think it will straighten up. The twisted stuff is most likely fucked. The same storm laid over some of the pepper at the sandhill garden. I've got to up my wind protection game.
We bought a bushel worth of shelled pink eyed purple hulls from one of the local tomato farms this week. Thirty five bucks, but it has got so hard to keep the bugs out of my peas without constant spraying, I've stopped growing them. Well, the wife stopped cooking them when she found a worm in a pot of cooked peas. So then I stopped growing them.
Bareback
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Yes, I was having rotten squash even before it started raining every day. (although it looks like the rainy season is not really here yet. No rain for the last two days, and no good chances until next weekend)
We had another storm lay down the rest of the corn in that patch. But it's all laid in one direction, so I think it will straighten up. The twisted stuff is most likely fucked. The same storm laid over some of the pepper at the sandhill garden. I've got to up my wind protection game.
We bought a bushel worth of shelled pink eyed purple hulls from one of the local tomato farms this week. Thirty five bucks, but it has got so hard to keep the bugs out of my peas without constant spraying, I've stopped growing them. Well, the wife stopped cooking them when she found a worm in a pot of cooked peas. So then I stopped growing them.
Check out the wind direction in this radar shot from Thursday. This storms were moving west but my corn was laid over towards the south.
I can’t believe your wife didn’t appreciate a little extra protein in those peas lol.
injinji
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We had company. Worst possible timing.
buckaclark
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Worms taste just like the peas,er so I've heard
Cantelopes coming in, all of the peppers outside one because they have aphids and two because I couldn't stop plating pot seeds, 7 strains going now. Not sure whats up with the aphids, there hitting g the peppers and okra hard, neems not doing chit. At least they're staying off the pot plants.
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StonedGardener
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Sweet set up ! How can ya beat digging in the dirt with a good buzz and putting in plants ! I think that I was a field worker in a prior life. Maybe getting older I've tempered...........................naaaa.........I'm going out hooting and hollering , kicking and screaming, ain't going " gently into that long goodnight " Gotta go water my giant pumpkins and tend to grapevines......get in that dirt !
StonedGardener
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I remember when you first posted your new set-up . Looks like its working damn well , very nice. I've had those fing aphids on my vegging pot plants. Made a slurry of diatomaceous earth and sprayed plant . Since they have exoskeletons the DE knocked the shit out of them very fast. It dirties up leaves
a tad at first but can be rinsed off after the genocide.....no ill effects. I wouldn't spray if flowering , lucky I eliminated them during veg. Love those wide open ranges , so serene !