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Getting ready to change out the greens and garlic for cabbages and beets.
No wonder you got so many strawbs! How many square feet of fruit you growing there? And good luck with the cabbages. I won't be doing any brassica starts for about a month here. Everything I have left is starting to look like this
I think it’s like 8’ x 5’? 19 plants
Thanks, I haven’t successfully grown one before.
Ohh that’s bolted hard! Poor lil guy. Is it kale?
Nice. Watch it start taking over in the next couple seasons
Nah, that's actually broccoli. The kale is right behind it. I do black magic kale and it is usually the last thing to start bolting. But! This is a good thing. I'm hoping to collect seeds this year, though I don't know where I'm hoping this particular broccoli is getting pollinated from. We'll see!
I like the little mini fences, very cute! What kind of beans are you growing?
Thanks. They’re just to let the dog know where not to go. She understands well actually.
My beans are called Rattlesnake. What do you grow?
Ive never heard of rattlesnake beans, looks fun! I mostly have just been putting perennial fruits in the ground, I've got raspberries, blueberries, Saskatoons, and elderberries. I might start some annuals next year
Never heard of Saskatoon before what’s that like
Well it's hard to say, the early birds got the saskatoons and I only got 2 (two!). They're blueberry like, maybe a bit less tart and a bit creamier(?). Definitely looking forward to meet years crop!
that's really nice looking!
Thank you so much! Last year was such a disaster for me. Tried new things and they failed big. So seeing such growth this year is really making me feel good about myself and skills. I’m following to the letter this book “growing organic vegetables west of the cascades” by Steve Solomon and I love it.
Amazing!!! So much variety, everything for self-use I assume?
Wanted to plant some tomatoes on our balcony this year again, but some health issues got in the way, and now I'm kinda glad because there has been practically no sun so far here in germany where I live.
Keep us updated if you want! Would love to see the fruits (and vegetables!) of your labor!
Oh I’m surprised to hear there’s no sun in Germany. Is that unusual for this time of year? Well it’s not too late to get some starts going in pots.
Oh and yes it’s a small garden it just feeds my wife and I with a nosh here and there. But thank you!
it varies a bit, most likely climate change at work. 2022 and 2023 were quite sunny at this time of year.
Have a great harvest!
It's been similar weather over here in the northwestern U.S., lots of clouds and periodic rain but unusually little sunlight for this time of year. I'm enjoying it personally since we're not in a heatwave like much of the continent, but many of my plants are much less enthusiastic.
Our raised beds here in Salem, OR are going absolutely nuts. Potatoes, sunflowers, garlic, chives, onion, basil, cabbages, chard, etc are all growing like crazy.
Oh Salem- You’re my neighbor!
Wow you have so much, you should share some pics with us!
Nice, though since it's what my parents always did, I prefer raised beds. Just if you do that, make sure the railroad ties aren't chemically treated.
Ya I think I’ll have to do that. Seems like everyone with raised beds grows better than me
I really dig the layout! Have you thought about going to raised beds eventually?
I might. I want to get good at growing in the ground before I do raised beds. So that I can better appreciate and utilize them.
I put them in for my parents, they really appreciated not having to stoop all the way to the ground to get in close- even got my mom one of those rolling seats for the yard 😁 has a little tray underneath for her trowel and whatnot, big knobby tires to go over twigs and stuff easily. It also makes it fun for the grandkids to help out 🤙🤙
We just got some night-blooming jasmine last week, that's going straight into the ground outside her bedroom windows...she had NO patience for a raised bed 😂 that's her favorite plant, I believe, had to get it planted RIGHT AWAY!
How do you not get absolutely ravaged by rabbits?
We don’t have rabbits! But I bet my wife would love it if we did
Not if she spent hours and hundreds of dollars planting bulbs in the fall just so the rabbits could dig em up and eat em in the spring, which was my wife's experience with our neighborhood residents.
That looks extremely nice. Do the small fences around the beds have a purpose or are they mostly decorative?
EDIT: Ah I see you answered below, for the dogs! Very cute.