secondary update on back:
t-posts with fencing material between has been perfect for the tomatoes. a nasty growing season, but in a good one, this setup will be perfect. have to put a second one in for next year.
experimental tobacco results; Virginia and wrapper tobacco grew great. KY strains not so good. PA variety took off and it’s ripening leaves for harvest. will be air dry, then steam cure, then aging those.
jungle expeditions. spacing close has worked out really well for water retention, but makes every day of harvest or checking on stuff a bit of a slog. got to climb over and under to get at things.
area slated for cleanup; gets good sun and heat, fruit wall for figs in-ground half built.
starting to get dinner from the garden every other day or so. the crookneck- early prolific from sandhill, are producing constantly and the plants are massive. I love yellow crookneck, I’ll be ordering these again from them. sandhill seeds were a real pleasant surprise this year, everything grew very well. choosing things that can stand the heat from them, getting their advice, it paid off.
I could eat these squashes every night and I bet by the end of the month I will be, just to keep up with the plants. I put in 3, because I love em so much.
my figs all struggled this year and aren’t producing much. nothing ripe.
thought I planted the pooka cukes that turn brown but they’re looking like the white cukes. getting plenty of them and lemon cucumber.
herb cutting every day. ever day. my thyme died, no reason I can tell. my oregano and sage taking over. fennel is bulbing really well, I’ve been cutting a few fronds to chop up over lamb roasts.
dill fully gone to dry seed, collecting a lot, scattering the rest. franchi chicory and raddichio that reseeded from last year, left a few and they’re seeding again.
I hope that they become a continual crop that way, it was good to have lettuces so early this year, they popped up as soon as the snow was gone in March. orach did the same- got real tall too.
purposely cultivated Munich purslane to go with the “native” (?) purslane popping up.
I wish it was my only, or predominant weed, I eat a lot of it. I get more mallow and pigweed amaranth and bindweed though, ugh.
got some volunteer mustard from last year, should be big enough to go in with the greens soon.
Mongolian giant, they got about 9 feet tall before droop and falling from the wind. got to find a better spot so I can string them to a wall to stay upright.
