Saltwater60
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I’m finally planting tonight and I noticed this morning my spinach is bolting already. I have no clue why because it’s been frigid. I plant another round in the fall that does much better anyway so I’ll plan for that.
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Mine started bolting a couple weeks ago. It’s all cut back now
Saltwater60
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Yeah but why? It doesn’t make sense. It hasn’t been warm enough and I’ll get only one harvest. It’s odd to me and mine is bolt resistant. I have much better luck with a fall planting so I may stop spring planting or do another variety in spring I love spinach so I’d like it to work. I know light hours have something to do with it bolting so I can only assume it’s how many hours of light there is that’s causing it.
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I keep mine in the shade. It only gets a couple hours a day of sun but it still bolted. Not all at once so I got probably 4 cuttings all together. I got one last small cutting today that was just enough to go with dinner
Saltwater60
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I got about half done maybe 3/4 done. Spent a lot of time harvesting Asian jumping worms and killing them. Mani have tons of them and that’s not good. I’m getting what I can now before they lay eggs or cocoons as they are called.
Just as I finished planting I went in the house and not 10 minutes later a ground hog came and ate all my broccoli again. I now caged off all my seedlings and grow bags. Jerk
Just as I finished planting I went in the house and not 10 minutes later a ground hog came and ate all my broccoli again. I now caged off all my seedlings and grow bags. Jerk
Groundhog is a fine meal
Saltwater60
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Not where I live. Bastard only comes once every week or two so I’m even having trouble live trapping him I’ve only seen him 3 times this spring and twice he got dinner me.
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Almost all my stuff is planted and most of my seedlings are in their final home. I will plant a few more peppers of others don’t take them because I have the space.
Saltwater60
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With all this rain don’t forget to supplement calcium for your calcium loving plants to avoid blossom end rot. Tomatoes and squash but also peppers. The rain can dilute it because your plants grow so fast they can’t get it to the right place and your fruit rots from the end where the blossom is.
I use bonemeal . It contains around 12% calcium as well as phosphorus , which is also essential for root development and flowering.
Saltwater60
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I
use bone meal as well but takes a long time to break down. I added some gypsum this year because it becomes available quickly.
Saltwater60
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Saltwater60
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Animals this year are brutal. Ground hog climbing in my raised beds so I put dog fencing around it and it climbed it as well. Now a deer in my yard for the first time ever.
What did you expect? You have an entire salad buffet all laid out for them to feast on
seriously though, it seems like Rabbits , squirrels and woodchucks are in abundance this year here too. I put chicken wire around All of my raised beds to keep them out. I’ve also had to cover my blueberry bushes with mosquito netting to keep the damn birds at bay .
So far so good.
Saltwater60
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My raised beds are 3’ in the air not a raised bed in the ground. I’m astonished a wood chuck can climb that well. I trapped the bastard today and he now lives in a park a few miles away.What did you expect? You have an entire salad buffet all laid out for them to feast on
seriously though, it seems like Rabbits , squirrels and woodchucks are in abundance this year here too. I put chicken wire around All of my raised beds to keep them out. I’ve also had to cover my blueberry bushes with mosquito netting to keep the damn birds at bay .
So far so good.
I bought chicken wire and wood stakes to make a box covering my raised beds. My blueberry bush this year is loaded so I bought 8’ stakes and I’m covering the entire thing with 1/4” bird netting.
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So far only chipmunks. But my 5gal bucket trap has rid 10 and pellet rifle got 3 in 5 days
Saltwater60
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Stack em deep. No ground hog visitor this morning and deer hasn’t been back.
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Got 3 more yesterday
Saltwater60
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No wood chucks since I rehomed the one I caught to a park.
We’re already eating some fresh greens from the garden. We made a big bowl of salad greens for dinner tonight. From the garden was Swiss chard, kale , butter crisp and red leaf lettuce, dill and Zucchini flowers!
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Saltwater60
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Awesome!! I had lettuce now for about 2-3 weeks but then the ground hog ate the rest. I started mine about March in my basement though. I use it on sandwiches and tacos. Im not a salad guy. I caught two ground hogs and I have 1-2 more to catch. I still have one or two heads they missed but they suck. I can tell you lettuce is a great bait for a trap because ground hogs love it.
Cool about eating zucchini flowers especially this early because I’ll bet it allows the plants to get bigger. I have a few squash plants now that are growing well now that they are in the ground. I’m hoping this year turns around and does well.
Saltwater60
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My tomatoes are turning red and raspberries will be getting picked this week.
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I’m going to be planting wine cap mushrooms today. Well spreading spawn and covering it with mulch. I don’t eat them but everyone else does and I think it will be fun
I was thinking of trying my hand at growing some blue oyster mushrooms out back using the straw bale method but my yard backs up to some woods and I don’t want to attract rodents.
Saltwater60
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The straw will do that.
Look into wine cap mushrooms as they can grow in wood chips. I saved my leaves from last fall, spread the spawn, then covered it with wood mulch. There are also some mushrooms that can grow in compost or nutrient rich soil. Check out north spore for what can grow where but I think oyster mushrooms were one of the ones that can grow in compost in raised beds. Wine caps produce in spring and fall when temps are in the 60’s.
These are the ones I chose to grow in compost in my raised beds. Admittedly I don’t know much about them.
Almond Agaricus Mushroom Sawdust Spawn
Saltwater60
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Picked a bunch of raspberries today. Yellow squash and peppers forming. I can’t grow garlic. I think the Asian jumping worms are eating them. There was a ton of them around the bulbs and the leaves were dying. No scapes this year. Bulbs are fairly good sized and new smaller bulbs forming but no sheath on them so I’ll have to consume them quickly.
Saltwater60
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I’m trying a citrus tree now. Why not.
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People amaze me. My SIL never tells me what she wants me to grow for her, this year she wanted way too many plants for her little garden, then always complains how bad her stuff does. Well I went over there for the 4th and the plants aren’t even in the ground. I grew some stuff specific for her so I bought seeds just for her. I don’t get it as she doesn’t work. Why ask for them to let them bake and die. They were dry as a bone and in 3” pots to 1/2 gallon pots. Don’t get it.
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Kinda the same here @Saltwater60
My wife asked for a few things kale swiss chard and escarole. Theres a bunch ready to pick and cook. Nope! Not happening
My wife asked for a few things kale swiss chard and escarole. Theres a bunch ready to pick and cook. Nope! Not happening
Saltwater60
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It only aggravates me because she acts like she doesn’t want anything then makes special requests. Then I grow it for her and she asks for more than she initially asked for it then doesn’t even plant it. I just don’t understand it. I guess everyone is different and there were tomatoes fully ready but not picked?? Again I don’t get it. Their garden is only 4’x2’ and she wanted 4 basil, 4 tomatoes, a few peppers, and some squash. I was like that’s way too much but gave her most of it anyway. Weeds in her plot are bigger than the tomatoes. She doesn’t work so what do you do? I work two jobs and got ready for a grad party and my gardens are better kept. I just don’t get it