Harvested my first cucumbers of the season so it’s officially refrigerator pickle SZN.
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Harvested my first cucumbers of the season so it’s officially refrigerator pickle SZN.
And here all my cucumber starts died because I assumed it was safe to put them in the ground 2 weeks ago and then it was in the mid-40s for several nights after that. Replaced them all yesterday since it shouldn't go below 50 anymore this year. It'll still be 7-8 weeks before I have cukes.
It’s wild down here. I actually probably got my garden going later than I wanted to honestly. Every year it seems like I need to shift planting up. I may do early March next year. Thanks global warming.
It’s almost getting to the point where my tomatoes won’t set because it’s too warm at night. I haven’t even started harvesting yet. However there’s easily 100-150 tomatoes on the various tomato vines right now.
First garden haul of the season.
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The beginnings of paw paws. It seems like there are more this year than last year.
Excited to see how these progress!
Welcome to my tomato prison
We just planted ours this past weekend, so I’ll try and match in 45-60 daysFirst garden haul of the season.
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Dick Koozie
Welcome to my tomato prison
That's like goddamn Fort Knox. Deer issues?
Squirrels, they will dive bomb in off the deck railings. This is just the first phase, once full height, i’ll double the chicken wire and cap off with the green domes.
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your avatar starting down at those vegetables made me chuckle out loudFirst garden haul of the season.
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But I don't have allergies.
They took over half my strawberry crop this year until I did a similar treatment. The top is still open so it's likely only a matter of time before those tree rats figure out how to jump in.
TL;DR Today, I drilled, inoculated with chestnut mushroom spores, and waxed our stumps!
I've got a few concerns about the whole process, but it was fairly cheap and is a pretty neat thing to be able to do.
For the drilling, there's a special drill that only drills to the correct depth, and is the right size for the wooden dowels full of inoculated mushroom stuff.
I was able to plug those holes and hammer in the dowels with a rubber mallet pretty easily.
I'm not that great at using paraffin wax, rarely having waxed bottles, but I got myself a cheap tiny crockpot from the thrift store, and was able to use some little "wax daubers" to apply the stuff, sealing and protecting the mushroom stuff below.
The guides all said to do this with fresh stumps, something like 2 weeks post chopping down the tree. These are so fresh, and I've been watering the lawn so much, that the tops of the stumps have standing water all the time from the root capillary action. I'm a little worried that all that moisture will seep in beneath the wax caps and dislodge them, but I figure if I keep the crockpot and extra wax around, I can reapply when that happens.
Mushrooms like shade, and only the smallest stump really gets any. To combat that, I'm planning on making a little shade tent with some burlap I've got sitting around. I'll raise it above the stumps with some stakes, or wire fencing, or something like that. I have no idea if this will work, or how often I'll need to replace the burlap, so fingers crossed.
Finally, as I've been working on this process, we're currently watching "The Last Of Us", and I keep feeling like I'm a species-traitor for growing mushrooms.
Speaking of all of the fencing going on, I built a little shade device for my mushroom stumps, seeing as how the stumps have started to dry out.
Last year I tried using mesh drawstring bags around the fruit, which worked for early in the season. Late season they get ravenous, I try to pick early and let ripen inside.
Elderflower cones. I have my eye on a Sister Pie recipe for a blueberry, rhubarb and edible flower pie. In a week or two I should have the 2T flowers to make it.
When it rains and you forget to check on the cucumbers for a couple of days…
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I have been thinking about asparagus, as there have been some stories on the local news about how much Michigan grows. I had no idea that Michigan was the number one producer in the country.
Anyway, we buy it for $3.50 a pound at the farm stand four miles down the road where it is grown. Not certified organic, but they aren't using pesticides/chemicals.
Right Brain’s Spear Beer with Michigan Asparagus is legit.
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