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Willie

🍓 Crush Genetics 🍓
Garden is booming thru June. This has been the best year I ever had for strawberries. Pest pressure was from ants......well former ants, the original troublemakers are compost now. Tons of runners being sent out on them and I will be making some babies up soon.
Garlic is banging, probably done in another month. All the scapes came in this month! :)
Potatoes.........I think half the crop rotted out but the other half looks good. There will not be as many purple potatoes as I planned. dammit ;)
Tomatoes.......all growing some with visible fruit like the Early Girls. First year for the Bushmasters............have not seen fruit yet but they have the thickest stems I have ever seen.......flowering now.
Cukes.......about 5 plants, all started late. Some fruit is visible.
Crookneck yellow squash...........doing well in 15 g fabric pots, fruit visible
Butternut Squash.........about 4 were miserable and finally going green and catching now.........and I planted a few more just in case. Last call for popping those.
Lots of Bronze Arrowhead lettuce in varying stages
Chard, Kale, basil, thyme growing nicely in pots.
Asparagus.....well they are looking feeble but growing.........it's a waiting game and this is early for that...............no spears until 1-2 years.
Raspberries have flowered......waiting game now, but they coming.
Peppers.......well it's only Hungarian yellows this year.........the ones in pots have fruit..........the ones in the ground have been decimated by slugs.
Pole beans, Fortex, Purple Pod and Rattlesnake are what I'm growing. I planted a bunch and have lost half to slugs...........but I just keep popping them and some will survive. Fortex is new....supposedly very tasty.......gonna find out! :)
Buckwheat...........it's growing anywhere I could scratch it in. All the seeds are from previous crops. Want bees?? Plant buckwheat.
Flowers..........from seed lots of Zinnias, poppies, johnny jump ups, and African Daisy's. Zinnias are an aphid magnet. They are all in planters for cutting and the aphids form on the top of the stem and the ladybugs are literally lined up behind them. It's been a very cool ecosystem to observe.
Dahlias.....All in 7 gallon pots, maybe 5 cultivars.........they get big dinner plate flowers......then end of season dry them and store to use the following year. They are just starting to bud now, I'll add some pics as they come in.


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