Gardening

OceanOfMead said:
You can hide a basket of mushy bois at my house.
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Better find them all before they start to smell.

This really just leaves me wishing I had three times as many so it was worth making a big batch of teriyaki shiitake jerky.

Just ordered some lions mane spawn to get rolling on some large maple logs the electric company took down last month. Also planning to do another 40-60 shiitake logs this fall after the leaves drop. I'm definitely going to let this get out of hand.
 
OceanOfMead said:
You can hide a basket of mushy bois at my house.
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Beerologist said:
Better find them all before they start to smell.

This really just leaves me wishing I had three times as many so it was worth making a big batch of teriyaki shiitake jerky.

Just ordered some lions mane spawn to get rolling on some large maple logs the electric company took down last month. Also planning to do another 40-60 shiitake logs this fall after the leaves drop. I'm definitely going to let this get out of hand.
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Honestly I thought I was serious about mushrooms, then I got that Hetty McKinnon book. Been really loving all the ways I can make shrooms my main protein.
 
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Big changes afoot at our house. Cc: Home Ownership Thread
We received a letter regarding the county arranging effectively a groupon for Rooftop solar. It still isn’t cheap but the incentives are still pretty good, the county recommended some vetted contractors (there are a lot of solar scammers out there right now) and upon getting our evaluation we decided to change up our planting strategy for the year (hence bringing this up in the gardening thread).

Our mulberry trees are going to come down. They are the invasive white variety and produce more pollen than fruit. I suspect we will miss the shade when it is gone but are immediately planting replacement trees that will offer lower and thinner coverage. This includes two more pawpaw trees, pictured above. I have also ordered from a native plant nursery, two redbuds, and a birch shrub that should help with drainage.

In addition to the trees, we ordered a black raspberry bush and some sweetgrass and knob onions to plant in thinner areas.
 
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We are keeping these in their temporary shipping pots for a few more days while we wait for the existing trees to come down to prevent damage, but L to R, redbud, redbud, dwarf birch, black raspberry bush.

The two pawpaw trees we temporarily potted for the same reason are looking healthy with leaf buds popping out. I’ll post a new pic when they are planted.

I ordered netting for the mature tree that should arrive this week. Squirrels already took out 2 flower buds,
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These two are gone but there is one more mature flower still going strong and a few more blossom buds popping out so I still have hopes of getting fruit this year.

I did some further reading on black currants and it sounds like while most currants will self-propagate, the native heritage breeds need help from a genetically different bush. Thinking of asking a friend with different varieties of black currants for a cutting or seeds.
 
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Well now that the white mulberries are down we need a couple more protective cages for the new trees and I need to order some more native plants for the border area because my yard looks like a hellscape. We can plant grass but some of this area has/had landscaping rocks I don’t want to get thrown every time we try to mow. I would rather just replant with low maintenance flowers and prairie grasses and things that have deep roots and manage drainage since the land slopes toward our house. We bookended the pawpaws with two redbuds.
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The black raspberry looked happier before it got watered so hopefully this is just a little transfer shock and it will perk up in the morning.
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The dwarf birch looks great.

I still have 12 sweetgrass and 6 knob onion plants coming but I think I just want to add a few more to fill out the area.
 
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Got a good bit of broccoli I think it getting a bit close to harvesting. Maters are getting heavy, okra is growing nicely, sweet short season onions are looking good, carrots and radishes are fine, I was expecting radish sooner but who knows. Strawberries are showing out too. Dice roll was two kinds of watermelon my sons picked. They unfortunately are thriving… gonna have to figure this out.


My pepper plants are a touch slow, poblanos are doing great, but my jalapeños are half as slow oddly enough
 
Because I leave Saturday for a week out of town, and because I do this kind of “just mark it up with power point shapes” thing for my job I made a crude map of our backyard and plotted where the rest of the plants are supposed to be planted should they arrive while I am visiting my mom. Looks like half-ish (nodding onion and sweetgrass) should arrive before I leave and can be planted right away if the weather cooperates.

Still to ship are rhubarb (finally), blue phlox, bee balm and tick trefoil. I might get murdered for this last one. I learned when looking up how far to space the plants that while they have pretty flowers and will create a natural, pretty barrier around the trees we planted, they generate sticky seed pods. But they are great pollinator plants and will fill the thin space that is full of tree roots and landscaping rocks nicely so we’ll make do.
 
creeping charlie. again. this is the third house we've owned and all 3 have had creeping charlie problems.

first time i nuked the whole lawn and started from scratch. all other efforts before it failed. regrew a nice lawn, but we moved out maybe a year or so later so not sure what it looks like today.

last two houses..... someone..... took hostas from a yard that had creeping charlie and planted those hostas in our yard. the following season we got creeping charlie. of course, as any person who is not a complete idiot knows, it's not the fault of the hostas transported from a yard that had creeping charlie, it's the fault of the simpleton that feeds birds seeds from, apparently, the creeping charlie plant sold at the local pet food store.

before i set fire to this yard, what tips/tricks do you all have for killing this monstrosity? simple weed killers have failed spectacularly in he past.
 
eta: we quite literally went from new hostas in the back of the yard late last summer, starting to notice some creeper around the fringe of the yard in fall and now that spring/summer is here, within the last week this trash has completely exploded from "maybe we won't have any creeping charlie this year, thank fuck" to "my lawn is going to be only creeping charlie in 2 weeks".
 
Was considering willing our whole back lawn to get rid of it but was also considering I don’t care that mych about having a grass lawn. Been planting native plants at the borders. Not a helpful answer for how to solve it so much as a comisseration,
 
furley said:
creeping charlie. again. this is the third house we've owned and all 3 have had creeping charlie problems.

first time i nuked the whole lawn and started from scratch. all other efforts before it failed. regrew a nice lawn, but we moved out maybe a year or so later so not sure what it looks like today.

last two houses..... someone..... took hostas from a yard that had creeping charlie and planted those hostas in our yard. the following season we got creeping charlie. of course, as any person who is not a complete idiot knows, it's not the fault of the hostas transported from a yard that had creeping charlie, it's the fault of the simpleton that feeds birds seeds from, apparently, the creeping charlie plant sold at the local pet food store.

before i set fire to this yard, what tips/tricks do you all have for killing this monstrosity? simple weed killers have failed spectacularly in he past.
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Use a premergent in the spring, and look for” T zone”. You need something with triclopyr in it for creeping charlie.
 
FATC1TY said:
Use a premergent in the spring, and look for” T zone”. You need something with triclopyr in it for creeping charlie.
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Edit to add because there are many many options but make sure it’s the ester product and not the amine/acid one.
 
noted for next year

i hit it this year with the same weed killer we've used on pickers, that killed the pickers same day, but the creeping charlie has so far been unphased.
 
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