Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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Gettin the beds ready. My seeds were hit or miss this year so may be buying some plants but we’ll see. Lettuce, arugula, and mustard greens direct sown doing ok.
Pulled some “weeds” out of the garden today. Got me thinking because what I was removing was all foragable plants. Chickweed, purple dead nettle, etc. Anyone else on here do any foraging? Recently tried some trout Lilly which was great. Also a big fan of Japanese knotweed. Also reminded me how I would like to try my hand at some mushrooms. Maybe this year. Thinking of doing logs but may start with a bun and take it from there.
Surg Japanese knotweed is an invasive species here. You can’t bring it into the state. We have a patch at our property that we are trying to kill right now. The root system goes down up to 25’. The problem is it is tight next to the creek so we have to be careful with herbicides since it’s a salmon bearing stream as well. The stuff is terrible, almost like kudzu since it a rhizome. We do have a secret weapon, the weed wacker with the brush blade and weekly cutting to the ground then Round Up dosed into each individual plant cell.
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Gettin the beds ready. My seeds were hit or miss this year so may be buying some plants but we’ll see. Lettuce, arugula, and mustard greens direct sown doing ok.
Pulled some “weeds” out of the garden today. Got me thinking because what I was removing was all foragable plants. Chickweed, purple dead nettle, etc. Anyone else on here do any foraging? Recently tried some trout Lilly which was great. Also a big fan of Japanese knotweed. Also reminded me how I would like to try my hand at some mushrooms. Maybe this year. Thinking of doing logs but may start with a bun and take it from there.
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I tilled today. My seeds did pretty good this year with the exception of my hot banana peppers.
The tomatoes in the picture are from seeds sent to me by my cousin in Florida. He got them about 10 years ago from my dad, who mailed them to him and my cousin kept them going every year. This past Christmas he sent me seeds in a Christmas card with a note about being from my Dad’s seed crop. My cousin says they are a yellow tomato. If you look at the label, I just named them “Dad’s Yellow”. I transplanted 6 into some larger pots this weekend to get the roots spreading out from the seedling flats. Its still several weeks away from putting anything in the ground here and the plants will also need to be hardened off.
A little over 2 weeks ago
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Gettin the beds ready. My seeds were hit or miss this year so may be buying some plants but we’ll see. Lettuce, arugula, and mustard greens direct sown doing ok.
Pulled some “weeds” out of the garden today. Got me thinking because what I was removing was all foragable plants. Chickweed, purple dead nettle, etc. Anyone else on here do any foraging? Recently tried some trout Lilly which was great. Also a big fan of Japanese knotweed. Also reminded me how I would like to try my hand at some mushrooms. Maybe this year. Thinking of doing logs but may start with a bun and take it from there.
Surg made a mushroom bed of wine caps last spring, those were easy to grow. I am expecting another good season with them and will be trying some other varieties this year.
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Gettin the beds ready. My seeds were hit or miss this year so may be buying some plants but we’ll see. Lettuce, arugula, and mustard greens direct sown doing ok.
Pulled some “weeds” out of the garden today. Got me thinking because what I was removing was all foragable plants. Chickweed, purple dead nettle, etc. Anyone else on here do any foraging? Recently tried some trout Lilly which was great. Also a big fan of Japanese knotweed. Also reminded me how I would like to try my hand at some mushrooms. Maybe this year. Thinking of doing logs but may start with a bun and take it from there.
Surg I used to do much, much more 35 years ago & more than I do now. I think at times we should do it again, but around here there are too many corporate farms & what could be around some of those soils scares me from things I have seen. We were in a more semi pristine & undeveloped area when we used to do more of that.
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My starter soil is carp! Now after 2 years of garbage! I’m in desperate need to learn of a favorite seed starter soil!
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Surg made a mushroom bed of wine caps last spring, those were easy to grow. I am expecting another good season with them and will be trying some other varieties this year.
YooperDog After your posts on your wine caps last year I started one. Its looking good but has not flushed yet. Can hardly wait! My oyster mushrooms are doing well . had a small flush of them last week.
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I tilled today. My seeds did pretty good this year with the exception of my hot banana peppers.
The tomatoes in the picture are from seeds sent to me by my cousin in Florida. He got them about 10 years ago from my dad, who mailed them to him and my cousin kept them going every year. This past Christmas he sent me seeds in a Christmas card with a note about being from my Dad’s seed crop. My cousin says they are a yellow tomato. If you look at the label, I just named them “Dad’s Yellow”. I transplanted 6 into some larger pots this weekend to get the roots spreading out from the seedling flats. Its still several weeks away from putting anything in the ground here and the plants will also need to be hardened off.
A little over 2 weeks ago
GWG8541 your plants 🪴 are looking great
. I bet you can’t wait to get them in the ground. Good luck. I got pretty much all of mine planted. Just ready for the rest of it to come up. 
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GWG8541 your plants 🪴 are looking great
. I bet you can’t wait to get them in the ground. Good luck. I got pretty much all of mine planted. Just ready for the rest of it to come up. cdavis now that’s a garden! Beautiful space you got there.
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
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Surg thank you. I really enjoy my garden
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GWG8541 your plants 🪴 are looking great
. I bet you can’t wait to get them in the ground. Good luck. I got pretty much all of mine planted. Just ready for the rest of it to come up. cdavis Were under a frost/freeze warning tonight, so its still some time before they can go in the ground. Yours is looking good. I wish my soil looked that good.
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GWG8541 your plants 🪴 are looking great
. I bet you can’t wait to get them in the ground. Good luck. I got pretty much all of mine planted. Just ready for the rest of it to come up. -
Be nice if I could get the garden prep finished. Frost last week, bit of sun over the weekend but was working at my son-in-laws new place putting in the utilities and two in poly water line. Then the deluges started Monday with the hail, suppose to be all week. Still got to get another load of dirt too.
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GWG8541 your plants 🪴 are looking great
. I bet you can’t wait to get them in the ground. Good luck. I got pretty much all of mine planted. Just ready for the rest of it to come up. cdavis You have always got the best. Looks like you have one of those tillers like I had on one of my tractors when we were still in Texas. It was a 6’ Italian Beast of tiller & you can see the nice beds they make. I sold all that, my truck, trailer, JD 95 & Bobcat 863 when I got transferred out here about 20 years ago or so. Lost my left arm! Wishing you the very best with that wonderful looking garden.
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YooperDog After your posts on your wine caps last year I started one. Its looking good but has not flushed yet. Can hardly wait! My oyster mushrooms are doing well . had a small flush of them last week.
RON PARRISH good deal, I had a good season with them, looking to see what this season brings. I am looking to try another variety.
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cdavis Were under a frost/freeze warning tonight, so its still some time before they can go in the ground. Yours is looking good. I wish my soil looked that good.
GWG8541 thanks. I got a small frost that burned my potatoes but they have recovered nicely.
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zbigjeff thank you sir. It took a couple of years to get it there.
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Be nice if I could get the garden prep finished. Frost last week, bit of sun over the weekend but was working at my son-in-laws new place putting in the utilities and two in poly water line. Then the deluges started Monday with the hail, suppose to be all week. Still got to get another load of dirt too.
johnsbrewhouse sounds like you’re hooked up. Good luck
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cdavis You have always got the best. Looks like you have one of those tillers like I had on one of my tractors when we were still in Texas. It was a 6’ Italian Beast of tiller & you can see the nice beds they make. I sold all that, my truck, trailer, JD 95 & Bobcat 863 when I got transferred out here about 20 years ago or so. Lost my left arm! Wishing you the very best with that wonderful looking garden.
calldoctoday thanks. I do love my tiller it’s a life saver.
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I need to get my garden in, but we have hit freezing temps twice this week.
Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks
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