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| Ground cherry in husk. |
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| The fruit. |
The garden is all things beautiful. Green, flowering, lush, producing fruit, and making seeds. We are eating and enjoying watching grow tomatoes, ground cherries, pumpkins, squash, Lima beans, peppers, basil, sunflowers, Monarda aka Bee Balm, okra.
Today I finished harvesting borage seeds. Soon the mustard seeds will mature and dry, parsley too.
This year I will try save tomato seeds from those that are heirloom. The tomato/straw bale/pot experiment is generally a success. There have been loses but there are also tomatoes! Yay!
The No Dig okra experiment is also a success. Following Charles Dowding's method (look up his videos on Youtube) I spread compost, stuck seeds in holes and have mulched heavily. No digging at all. Scott resisted. I persisted. It has taken the plants longer to set up in the new bed. The ground there is quit hard and filled with roots from the dead tree, so there's that, but after a few weeks (I'm theorizing here) the roots push through and the plants take off.
Stink bugs. Daughter Katie sent a link for me to read about stink
bugs. Yikes. Talk about an eye opener. Bottom line. Do not squash them! The scent draws in their mates. Instead I have ready, at all times, a bowl of water with dish soap. Stink bugs drop when threatened so I hold the bowl under them, flick them and they drop down to their death. Soapy water is a great pesticide. I am also bringing in tomatoes as soon as they change color.
Kale. It was planted last fall and is still growing strong. The flavor is still good and we eat from it
about once a week. Who knew?
Ground Cherries (above), another experiment, are like candy in a wrapper. I love them!
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