sungolds are excellent!
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It’s been a bumper raspberry year. Took in 12 lbs in 3 days. In the right spots I can get 3lb an hour. Birds are hating on me but there is still a ton out there and they are getting kinds ripe now…still maybe 6 lbs out there but you will pay in blood for those, lol. There is NOTHING in the store berrywise that taste like these!
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Blues Cabbage from Fedco Seeds. This is a chinese cabbage that doesn’t really make a head. It makes nice leaves with ribs tho and very tasty. You will be hard pressed to stay ahead of this one. It’s cut and come again and not many other cabbages are. Makes up a good portion of my kimchi. I also use it in soup. It’s Bionic, 4-6 plants are fine for 1 person, maybe two.
I’d rec this to anybody. You get tons of seeds and they all pop. Grows like a maniac and tastes great.
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Do you know what the variety is? They look really good.
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Im getting a bowlfull each day. Smashing on them as soon as i wash em. Moving. So picking more for the new place to plant. Picked like five and they felt the heat and didnt last. Going to get more.
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They are wild or were. They were here in 90 when I got here. I prune them and arrange next years canes is my input. In fact, when I harvest some of the hard to reach areas, I’ll just prune the branch, remove it ad pick the berries off it then…That beats falling in!! 
And you should prune those bearing canes anyway…they are kaput.
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I’m eating at least a lb a day, lol. I froze quite a bit too. I’ll be drinkin red raspberry soda for a long while(blueberry and strawberry too)
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Thats what we do cut and pick and the runoffs supply more shoots.
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Thats awesome. Im waiting for our blackberries to come in, we get a freaking ton of them everyyear.
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Just getting caught up on this thread.
My veggie garden is coming in nicely. Only issue I’m having is cucumbers growing slow. Not sure why exactly.
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Orange Oxheart
Day 1 of breaking the soil
Bio365 Soil ( yellow bag) / water pH 6.0
12 days indoors, then outside
Amend a 3 gallon container ( or where you plan on growing the plant) with veg nutrients the same day the plant breaks the soil.
Day 21-24 up/pot into amended location.
I live in Northern Ohio. Our harvest season ends November 15-21st.
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I kept procrastinating and putting off pruning the fig tree because I didn’t quite know how I wanted to go about it but nature made the decision easy for me by snapping 4 good healthy grafts off in a storm because they just got way too big way too fast lol. I topped all the grafts and cut any side branching they had back to just enough to maybe get a few extra figs this year without much extra strain on the graft unions so they hopefully have enough time before next season to get well attached. Lessons learned again.
Speaking of things snapping off, I found this Tromboncino on the ground under where it was hanging on the vine yesterday. Must have been the wind but luckily it was completely undamaged and still perfectly good to eat.
The squirrels had mercy on me and let me actually harvest at least one little sunflower head so far this year. They must be afraid of heights.
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Ya know man, the night after you posted this I grabbed a bottle of soapy water I had out there (same stuff I use on aphids) & gave the leaf footed bugs a blast. It’ll take 'em out with the soap alone if I score a direct hit. Once it runs out I’m gonna mix up your brew and see if it’ll increase the kill efficiency.
On a somewhat related note, some door to door salesman came today to try and sell pest control services… riding one of those goofy hoverboard scooter things.
“I can get rid of all these spiders for you… OOH watch out, there’s one right next to you!”
“Thats Jeff.”
“They’re really bad this year, we can take care of them for you.”
I had to explain to this guy that Jeff leads 1st Squad, and if something were to happen to him, Mary would have to move up from 2nd Squad to take his place, then Barry would have to take her place… and Barry isn’t ready because his webwork isn’t quite up to 2nd Squad standards.
He took it pretty well, but still looked like a dork riding off on his hover thingy. It’s almost like he’d never heard of a spider platoon… what is it with kids these days?
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Don’t forget Boris.
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Okay honest update:
I have come to realize I planted the WRONG Roma plant in the ground. I grew different types of Roma’s this year. The ones we all know as Roma and Mini Roma. I planted the mini in the ground which explains why I have 150-200 tomatoes on the plant.
However, I am getting the real Roma plant back this weekend. It’s going in ground and the freaking bet is still on!!!
300+ lbs off 3 plants
Get your fork and knife ready 
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Dude, what is up with the kids doing door to door sales while riding hoverboards while their mommy waits down the street in the car?
Ive had pest control ones, roof ones, gutter ones, and home protection
They dont take no thanks for an answer
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The bet was 320 lbs and I will use a melon baller… not a fork and knife like some rookie.
You gonna have enough time to pull it off? Shit man, its almost August already.
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You know I can’t back down from a challenge
I think I can tbh
The plant is already established and has 4-5 tomatoes on it already. Just need the roots to be in ground for the expansion.
Not transplanting directly in the ground. Cutting the bottom half of the container off and setting in amended soil in the ground. Cant afford to transplant due to the size ( it’s in a 5 gallon and fully rooted).
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