D.Week 7ish? garden update..
Frost due the first week of November.
It's been three weeks since I put down the winecap spawn, and now when I turn the mulch over it smells like mushrooms and I see some white mycelium strings. Hopefully it's established enough to get through the winter.
My "Daikon radishes" look like an Asian turnip variety, perhaps something like Ganghwa turnip? Some of them are starting to bulb out, but their sizing is pretty inconsistent..one group got hit pretty heavily by slugs. I'm just going to assume for now that they'll take longer than expected.
The gai lan is starting to look really good, though I'm waiting for florets before I harvest. I was hoping to get a couple of cut-and-come-again harvests from them, so..I suppose I'd better see about frost cover. I've noticed a few stems that seem nibbled at the bottom. I don't think it's damping off..maybe slug damage?
My "mixed radishes" are all over the place in size. We had a heat wave after I planted them, so I accepted that they were going to bolt. I was looking forward to eating greens and seedpods and saving seeds for next year. We're on week 7 after direct-sowing, and they've neither bolted nor bulbed up. There are two large ones with green shoulders that seem to be bulbing slightly, so perhaps I can harvest them soon, but I guess I'm just in radish limbo for the rest.
I harvested the field garlic from one square and planted 9x local hardneck garlic. We'll see how it does..it's from a bulb I got in my CSA bundle, so I don't know the variety.
The red orach doesn't seem to have germinated, but apparently they can have lower germination rates, so I'll try again. My poor kale..all three plants look good, but they're just growing painfully slowly. Again, I suppose I'd better put together a low tunnel. I can tell that Mr. Burdock wants me to have an excuse to come up and visit him at the farm during the winter.
#zone6b #zone7a #zone7gardening #raisedbed #gardening #urbangarden #allotment
Frost due the first week of November.
It's been three weeks since I put down the winecap spawn, and now when I turn the mulch over it smells like mushrooms and I see some white mycelium strings. Hopefully it's established enough to get through the winter.
My "Daikon radishes" look like an Asian turnip variety, perhaps something like Ganghwa turnip? Some of them are starting to bulb out, but their sizing is pretty inconsistent..one group got hit pretty heavily by slugs. I'm just going to assume for now that they'll take longer than expected.
The gai lan is starting to look really good, though I'm waiting for florets before I harvest. I was hoping to get a couple of cut-and-come-again harvests from them, so..I suppose I'd better see about frost cover. I've noticed a few stems that seem nibbled at the bottom. I don't think it's damping off..maybe slug damage?
My "mixed radishes" are all over the place in size. We had a heat wave after I planted them, so I accepted that they were going to bolt. I was looking forward to eating greens and seedpods and saving seeds for next year. We're on week 7 after direct-sowing, and they've neither bolted nor bulbed up. There are two large ones with green shoulders that seem to be bulbing slightly, so perhaps I can harvest them soon, but I guess I'm just in radish limbo for the rest.
I harvested the field garlic from one square and planted 9x local hardneck garlic. We'll see how it does..it's from a bulb I got in my CSA bundle, so I don't know the variety.
The red orach doesn't seem to have germinated, but apparently they can have lower germination rates, so I'll try again. My poor kale..all three plants look good, but they're just growing painfully slowly. Again, I suppose I'd better put together a low tunnel. I can tell that Mr. Burdock wants me to have an excuse to come up and visit him at the farm during the winter.
#zone6b #zone7a #zone7gardening #raisedbed #gardening #urbangarden #allotment
Sam Harrison
CLM
