will get right here!
June rainfall
- third: 0.25″
- ninth: 0.5″
- sixteenth: 1.125″
- twenty seventh: 0.25″
- Whole: 2.125″
Temperature
- nighttime vary: 58-80°F (14.4-26.6°C)
- daytime vary: 80-100°F (26.6-37.7°C)
Duties
Issues I am making an attempt to get executed earlier than selecting and preserving take all my time.
Tying up tomato crops.
| We should have 50+ cherry tomato volunteer crops. |
Mulching. I’ve a reasonably good routine for this.
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| Afternoons are mulch gathering time as a result of I can do it n the shade. |
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| Early the next morning. I work on mulching my backyard beds. |
Ideally, I feel mulching ought to be executed proper after a rain, to stop the moisture from rapidly evaporating out of the bottom. With no rain, I water the mattress totally earlier than placing down mulch.
After I end with the beds, I must re-do the wooden chip mulch within the
aisles, if I’ve time.
Harvesting, Preserving, and Consuming
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| Strawberries, pink raspberries, and mulberries |
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| Mulberry pancakes |
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| Multiplier onions |
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| Garlic |
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| Potatoes |
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| Volunteer lamb’s quarter |
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| Lamb’s quarter |
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| Lamb’s quarter |
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The lettuce began to bolt earlier this month, however I discover that Jericho does not get terribly bitter, even then. |
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| Landrace cucumbers and Matt’s Wild Cherry tomatoes. |
What are landrace cucumbers? They’re my experiment to develop a regionally
tailored but genetically numerous number of cucumber for my backyard.
Up to now, the cucumbers are rising very properly and producing tasty
cucumbers.
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Numerous flowers hopefully means numerous cukes. That is good, as a result of I must can pickles & relish this yr. |
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| 100% homegrown salad, even the salad dressing! (Recipe here.) |
Seed saving
Up to now, I’ve collected seed from:
- Collards
- Kale
- Edible pod peas
- Garlic (bulbils)
One factor I do not need to cross-pollinate, is my lettuce. I’ve three varieties of lettuce rising: Jericho
Romaine, a ruffly unfastened leaf kind, and wild lettuce.
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The unfastened leaf lettuce bolted in early June. Jericho did not begin till a number of weeks later. |
warmth tolerant selection I’ve tried. I do not need it cross-pollinating
as a result of I do not need to lose that. In accordance with Joseph Lofthouse in
his Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and
Promiscuous Pollination, lettuce does not simply cross-pollinate. It nonetheless can, nevertheless, so to
maintain my pressure pure, I took measures to stop it.
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| Jericho lettuce. Flower heads lined to stop cross-pollination. |
Rising
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| Georgia Jet candy potato vines and flower |
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| Slicing tomatoes. Dan acquired 4 crops from a farmers market. |
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| Chicory |
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| Moonglow pears. |
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| Candy potato winter squash within the foreground (speckled leaves). |
Late planting (replanting/transplanting).
Ordinarily, I attempt to have all my planting executed by now. Summer season for us is a season the place the times are sizzling and rain will be elusive. The earlier I can get my crops established and mulched, the much less watering I’ve to do. We did need to replant some issues that made a poor exhibiting: melons, corn, and sunflowers. I made a second planting of summer season squash and cucumbers as properly.
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| I had two sorts to plant. My trusty Vardamans and a few from a purple candy potato that I initially acquired from Misfits Market. |
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| The kale is a lone survivor of our chilly winter. |
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| I needed to guard the newly planted slips from wilting, so I watered and lined with shade fabric. That helped rather a lot! |
Okay, that was lengthy. However I had rather a lot I needed to make word of. How about you? How does your backyard develop?
