I do love wood sorrel! The brightness is tasty. They are high in oxalate ( like every green I like!?) So one must be sparing. I heed to find nettles and lambs ear to spread. I think thry don't prefer forest soil here 🤔
I have 2 Tahitian Melon Squash ( they remind me of cantaloupe flavor) left downstairs... I've never had a Squash keep so long!! Annnnnd it's heirloom. They grow pretty large, though not so much in my lack of sun.
I've got 1( getting more) huuuuuge grain sack from a local distillery which I intend to make into 4x4x3 raised hugel beds to include my new figs. They're 4x4x4, but who.needs 4' deep beds? I'm trying to keep voles and roots at bay. I may put a 4x4 peice of hardware cloth under.
I'm losing my ' try to get along' battle with ants. All kinds, including fire ants. (The farging bastages will crawl far up you Then start biting. Oh, my neck n shoulders)
Jerusalem artichokes survived a hard chomp down by deer. These are my survival planting.
Today I try to get some stuff to build an outside shower by putting a rain barrel up on my deck and shower underneath. Gunna use pallets for the sides. 🤔
I love an outdoor shower. Though maybe less if there are fire ants around. Thankfully we do not have any biting ants around here. No shortage of ticks though, this wet spring and summer.
Way too far north for figs, sadly. Nor did my peaches I planted last year fare well.
Yes, most of the peaches died. I think it was a combination of very little rain last year, no insulating snow cover and a few very hard freezes. They would have done much better this spring. Though one of the survivors has six peaches on it.
Chicago Hardy is a old, cold hardy variety and both plants and especially the cuttings are cheap. It's a " figgy" fig. I got ones that taste of fig, cherries,dark berries and peavhnesn honey 🤣.
I tried issai kiwi. Despite my efforts, they died in the worst heatwave we'd had in over 100yrs. That was about 25yrs ago. I haven't tried again.
Great pictures I am fasinated by the dragonflies. I never knew garlic greens were called scapes but it is a reliable perennial even in Las Vegas simply planted as some bulbs which had green growth on top. Yes there are ways to survive the grid collapse but we'd all better get working on them...here's to good health.
The scapes are the emergent flower heads. If you don't cut them apparently the cloves do not form properly.
I don't expect imminent grid collapse, but systems this complex do not have much of a shelf life, ecologically speaking. And a lot of it, good riddance.
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Had scapes on our garlic, onion and leeks this year. Got them off in time. Last years Sorrel and Swiss Chard thriving. One disappointment has been broccoli.
Broccoli is tricky. By the time the edible parts form, it is usually hot and muggy, so they start flowering ASAP. I should plant some late season, as the cooler weather in September might lengthen the maturity time.
I do love wood sorrel! The brightness is tasty. They are high in oxalate ( like every green I like!?) So one must be sparing. I heed to find nettles and lambs ear to spread. I think thry don't prefer forest soil here 🤔
I have 2 Tahitian Melon Squash ( they remind me of cantaloupe flavor) left downstairs... I've never had a Squash keep so long!! Annnnnd it's heirloom. They grow pretty large, though not so much in my lack of sun.
I've got 1( getting more) huuuuuge grain sack from a local distillery which I intend to make into 4x4x3 raised hugel beds to include my new figs. They're 4x4x4, but who.needs 4' deep beds? I'm trying to keep voles and roots at bay. I may put a 4x4 peice of hardware cloth under.
I'm losing my ' try to get along' battle with ants. All kinds, including fire ants. (The farging bastages will crawl far up you Then start biting. Oh, my neck n shoulders)
Jerusalem artichokes survived a hard chomp down by deer. These are my survival planting.
Today I try to get some stuff to build an outside shower by putting a rain barrel up on my deck and shower underneath. Gunna use pallets for the sides. 🤔
Whew... better get a move on...
Thoroughly enjoyed this article.
I love an outdoor shower. Though maybe less if there are fire ants around. Thankfully we do not have any biting ants around here. No shortage of ticks though, this wet spring and summer.
Way too far north for figs, sadly. Nor did my peaches I planted last year fare well.
Pesches: dead? Mine don't like wet feet...
Yes, most of the peaches died. I think it was a combination of very little rain last year, no insulating snow cover and a few very hard freezes. They would have done much better this spring. Though one of the survivors has six peaches on it.
Re figs: even Chicago Hardy? The there's quite a few cold hardy figs that PA business Off the Beaten Path has in his hundreds.
Fire ants showed up here in N Ga about 10 yrs ago. I'm hoping the armadillos that just migrated 2 yes ago are finding them tasty. Uuugh to both.
We can grow Kiwi, perhaps, though I never have. I have never heard of figs in the Midwest, but I am open tor trying….
Chicago Hardy is a old, cold hardy variety and both plants and especially the cuttings are cheap. It's a " figgy" fig. I got ones that taste of fig, cherries,dark berries and peavhnesn honey 🤣.
I tried issai kiwi. Despite my efforts, they died in the worst heatwave we'd had in over 100yrs. That was about 25yrs ago. I haven't tried again.
Ps- compound butter with my scapes. My garlic have sucked this year...I dunno why!
Great pictures I am fasinated by the dragonflies. I never knew garlic greens were called scapes but it is a reliable perennial even in Las Vegas simply planted as some bulbs which had green growth on top. Yes there are ways to survive the grid collapse but we'd all better get working on them...here's to good health.
The scapes are the emergent flower heads. If you don't cut them apparently the cloves do not form properly.
I don't expect imminent grid collapse, but systems this complex do not have much of a shelf life, ecologically speaking. And a lot of it, good riddance.
Thanks for my photo fix. I am not familiar with many of the plants you mentioned, but I do love beet greens.
Had scapes on our garlic, onion and leeks this year. Got them off in time. Last years Sorrel and Swiss Chard thriving. One disappointment has been broccoli.
Broccoli is tricky. By the time the edible parts form, it is usually hot and muggy, so they start flowering ASAP. I should plant some late season, as the cooler weather in September might lengthen the maturity time.
Thanks William. The seedlings never got going properly, some part eaten, but the rest hardly have any foliage. I hate the stuff but family likevit