TomPlanted 4 rows of carrots in the tomato bed today. The basil in here was a bit unruly for getting to the tomatoes since it was left to flower for the insects. The basil sprouts were plucked and put in the tomatillo bed.
Gigi 🍄🟫2/🧵
I bought liquid culture yesterday after taking a year and a bit off from growing mushrooms, after burning myself out by juggling 19 different varieties. I may have a problem with being sensible when it comes to growing things.
(I currently have 60-something varieties of tomatoes on the go, and I just ordered two more types of micro-dwarf tomatoes. More on that later.)
I ordered some old standbys, including some stropharia rugosoannulata for making a nice wine caps bed for the friend who lets me put things in his yard that I have no way to grow in a pot. (To be clear I grow the wine caps in pots, this is a thank you.)
I also got Blewits for him (and for me), Chestnut mushrooms, Black Pearl oyster mushrooms, and *so excited* Corn Smut.
We did a corn experiment¹ in his yard last year, which is when I learned that skunks can climb things(!), and not just corn stalks, the damn fence if I startle them.
Well this year I'm laying down a few extra peaches and cream corn to see if I can get huitlacoche² happening.
While I was ordering things, I also picked up two more varieties of micro dwarf tomatoes. Because apparently eight ISN'T enough.
So now I have two more attempts at brownish micro-dwarf tomatoes: Loi's Baby Tiger³ and Pa's Pride⁴. Both are actually just red with green stripes. I am very sad still that I cannot get the F1 Cocoa into Canada.
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¹ https://kolektiva.social/@Gigi/115028737274881319
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut
³ https://merakiseeds.com/lois-baby-tiger-micro-dwarf-tomato
⁴ https://merakiseeds.com/pas-pride-micro-dwarf-tomato
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thegardendude 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸I was at a @climatechangemakersrva meeting at a local brewery this evening, and the brewery was also hosting a plant sale….mostly cactus, succulents, and houseplants but they also had a table for tropical fruit trees. So just for fun I picked up a cacao plant in a quart pot! My yard is mostly shade which is perfect for cacao, and I’ll just bring it inside to the bathroom during the winter! We’ll see what happens! #gardening #GrowYourOwn
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I haven't done a garden update in a bit, so this is going to be a thread.
1. Raspberries
I keep meaning to do a post about container gardening with canes and how you get the most fruit off of a limited number of them.
This week I purchased a golden raspberry to go with my black, wild, red, and the weird deep burgundy one (which was also *supposed* to be a black one) that I bought probably a decade ago.
(I also have the wild raspberries because a friend of mine was trying to get me one of the black canes from his patch, but captured a wild one instead. My quest for black raspberries had been an ongoing thing until last year.)
Anyway, people see my raspberry canes coiled round and round and wonder whether I should have cut them off instead of letting them grow really long, or do I let them grow extra long because there are so few of them in the pots?
Well the first time I did that, that was definitely my motivation. It was a year where only two canes came in, but they kept growing and growing to like 15 ft long, so I looped them around and around when they were green, in order to be able to manage them.
But the next year, I learned that:
When you bend a fruit cane (and it works with my gooseberries as well, see the last photo of the set), the plant sends off mini branches with multiple flower sets, which become fruit. It's weird, but it's true.
Apparently, bending or arching raspberry canes disrupts the natural plant hormones (auxins). When canes are strictly vertical, the main tip of the cane dominates growth, suppressing the buds below it. Bending the cane horizontally or into an arch forces these dormant side buds (lateral nodes) to wake up.
I'm not sure if that's why people used to cut the tips of their raspberry plants off, but that used to be the advice given to growers. 🤷🏾♀️
Anyhoo, I look forward to feasting on raspberries in another month or so, so I won't get golden ones until next year.
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Loke ManiWell, that solves my leafy greens problem.
I've been trying to find something in the ballpark of mild lettuce or spinach that actually likes the climate. So, I planted leafy goosefoot *last year*. I suppose it was a bad call to let it spread it's seeds freely. 😅
Jules she/her"Perennial vegetables for those who don’t want ‘weird’ stuff."
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PlantHumboldt Cannabis NurseryHey, we're coming back to Berkeley this Thursday. Same time 4-6pm at Urban Farm Oasis on Ashby in Berkeley.
Order plants online on our site and pick them up and pay for them on Thursday. https://www.planthumboldt.com/delivery
So far, I think everyone who has picked up plants from us there has heard about it from Instagram (🤮) or from our mailing list. Say hi if you heard about us here.
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