re: 2024 Fall Garden Thread

Ours are usually ready before Memorial Day.

Put the beans to use with some baby potatoes from the spring we still have left, with some house beef, mashed potatoes, and good wine. Makes the back pain today feel alittle better. The house smells fantastic this evening.

Now that's a healthy dinner!

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the grasshoppers wouldnt have eaten the broccoli and cauliflower start

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Have you found a good way to control them? They got really bad here and nothing I tried seemed to work.

I started my onions with seeds in soil blocks 2 weeks ago. Later than I wanted, but still earlier than last year. Last year I direct seeded and ended up with weeds and some onions too close together. Starting in the blocks will hopefully avoid those things.

They're short day onions, so in theory they should start bulbing in March, but we'll see. Depends on how many good growing sunny days we get this winter, but as long as they're ready before it gets too hot they should be good.

ETA: took this May 17 earlier this year. Hoping for a couple weeks earlier this season.

Just had my first mustard greens grown by me. Outstanding.

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So I assume you got those flea beetles under control?

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Whatever was eating and pooping was gone after the neem oil spraying.

The wife did the picking and fortunately, it looks like my little patch is going to give us 4/5 more servings.

Good job.

I have a hefty crop of snow oyster mushrooms coming on. The lion's mane are trying to fire up again. We had a good crop of shiitakes. This morning I went out and slammed the shiitake logs hard on the ground to see if they will make another flush. This rain is helping the mushroom cause.

Does she eyeroll you when you come inside with all those glorious vegetables to eat?

I wouldn't call it nerdy. More like insane. We just got finished fighting heat, fungus, insects, and critters trying to sabotage our efforts. Then we can't wait to do it again.

You have to pick them. Everything wants to eat them, from slugs, other insects, mice, squirrels, chipmunks. They grow to a certain size, then start making spores, then degrade and turn into mush. You pick them before they start spewing spores, then they will keep for about a week in the refrigerator. Some people dry them, but I want to eat them fresh.