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Growing a giant pumpkin
Northeast Giant Pumpkin on Instagram has been very interesting to follow. He is pursuing "growing a 2500 lb pumpkin." He names each pumpkin. Its one per plant. He is very careful & purposeful about his pollination process, etc. I thought that some of you might enjoy following his progress if you have IG. It's pretty…
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Bean Surprise
Put a sprouted bean with no roots in my hydroponic unit and surprisingly it grew roots!! I've been rooting tomato suckers that way in a couple days to make new tomato plants but had no idea a bean would do the same thing! Some animal dug out the dirt and pulled the bean sprouts out of the dirt and left them on my patio.…
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Local Mushrooms
I am very excited that we have a local mushroom grower. They have been at a farmers market in the larger community closest to me. So far I have tried: Chestnuts, Shitakes, King Trumpets, Lion's Mane and several types of Oyster shrooms including Pink, Yellow, White, Blue and Black Pearl Kings. They are all soooo good. I'll…
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Greens and Problems
I just planted my greens at the end of last week. I did have a bird that dropped a seed of beet greens which has turned into a hybrid of some kind. Another seed was planted in my garden box and it was a Swiss Chard seed. I transplanted it and it has ginormous leaves. The neighborhood chat called Next Door had a comment…
