Had a lovely morning in the garden today.
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Had a lovely morning in the garden today. Some sun, and warm enough that I had to take my coat off.
Today was the first seed planting day of the year.
I cleared last year's brassica bed - so much lacinato kale and mustard to eat and freeze this week! The kale was just bolting and the tops are like little broccolini. I did an experiment and chopped non-woody but not newly-bolted kale stems into 8-12 inch sections and buried them straight up and barely sticking out in this year's brassica bed. We'll see if they root and give me nice strong plants with deep roots.
Last year's brassica bed is this year's legume bed. I planted heilong jiang snow peas, purple mist peas (snow and mid-season shelling pea, but I typically use it is as a shelling pea only), and Barton's broad beans.
I planted the peas at the base of the obelisks and they'll need a little string added to help them climb. And I'll have to put some stakes and string in for the broad beans. But that's a chore for another day.
I also have some sweet peas that I tucked around the clematis and roses. The seeds a bit old, so we'll see how they do.
This winter has been so mild that my strawberries - the albion and allstar - haven't stopped making berries. They don't ripen of course, but it's pretty disconcerting. There hasn't been a month that my alpine strawberries didn't have tasty berries on them. We could still get a cold blast in the next couple weeks, but it really feels like the year without a winter.
Nice set up. I want a metal trough for planting. Some day.
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Had a lovely morning in the garden today. Some sun, and warm enough that I had to take my coat off.
Today was the first seed planting day of the year.
I cleared last year's brassica bed - so much lacinato kale and mustard to eat and freeze this week! The kale was just bolting and the tops are like little broccolini. I did an experiment and chopped non-woody but not newly-bolted kale stems into 8-12 inch sections and buried them straight up and barely sticking out in this year's brassica bed. We'll see if they root and give me nice strong plants with deep roots.
Last year's brassica bed is this year's legume bed. I planted heilong jiang snow peas, purple mist peas (snow and mid-season shelling pea, but I typically use it is as a shelling pea only), and Barton's broad beans.
I planted the peas at the base of the obelisks and they'll need a little string added to help them climb. And I'll have to put some stakes and string in for the broad beans. But that's a chore for another day.
I also have some sweet peas that I tucked around the clematis and roses. The seeds a bit old, so we'll see how they do.
This winter has been so mild that my strawberries - the albion and allstar - haven't stopped making berries. They don't ripen of course, but it's pretty disconcerting. There hasn't been a month that my alpine strawberries didn't have tasty berries on them. We could still get a cold blast in the next couple weeks, but it really feels like the year without a winter.
@sus that looks like what I'd call Cavolo Nero and it's one of my favourites, but doesn't always self-seed as reliably as the silverbeet does, so we usually have much more silverbeet.
Here, we'd plant broad beans in the autumn; they need to feel some cold in order to actually respond to spring.
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@sus that looks like what I'd call Cavolo Nero and it's one of my favourites, but doesn't always self-seed as reliably as the silverbeet does, so we usually have much more silverbeet.
Here, we'd plant broad beans in the autumn; they need to feel some cold in order to actually respond to spring.
@uep yes! Cavolo nero and lacinato are the same thing. It doesn’t reseed for me, but it is mostly perennial here.
I’ve got another variety of broad bean to try for an autumn sow this year. If it goes well I’ll switch to autumn rather than spring sown. That’ll let me grow more peas!
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It really doesn’t.
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Had a lovely morning in the garden today. Some sun, and warm enough that I had to take my coat off.
Today was the first seed planting day of the year.
I cleared last year's brassica bed - so much lacinato kale and mustard to eat and freeze this week! The kale was just bolting and the tops are like little broccolini. I did an experiment and chopped non-woody but not newly-bolted kale stems into 8-12 inch sections and buried them straight up and barely sticking out in this year's brassica bed. We'll see if they root and give me nice strong plants with deep roots.
Last year's brassica bed is this year's legume bed. I planted heilong jiang snow peas, purple mist peas (snow and mid-season shelling pea, but I typically use it is as a shelling pea only), and Barton's broad beans.
I planted the peas at the base of the obelisks and they'll need a little string added to help them climb. And I'll have to put some stakes and string in for the broad beans. But that's a chore for another day.
I also have some sweet peas that I tucked around the clematis and roses. The seeds a bit old, so we'll see how they do.
This winter has been so mild that my strawberries - the albion and allstar - haven't stopped making berries. They don't ripen of course, but it's pretty disconcerting. There hasn't been a month that my alpine strawberries didn't have tasty berries on them. We could still get a cold blast in the next couple weeks, but it really feels like the year without a winter.
Isn’t moving live brassica material from one bed to the next undoing crop rotation?
Well, still good for nutrient balance, I guess, but aren’t you within the danger zone for club root and all the other brassica diseases? @sus
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Isn’t moving live brassica material from one bed to the next undoing crop rotation?
Well, still good for nutrient balance, I guess, but aren’t you within the danger zone for club root and all the other brassica diseases? @sus
@clew no roots or leaves, just stems, but yeah, it’s not pure.
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@clew no roots or leaves, just stems, but yeah, it’s not pure.
@clew does rotation actually help with club root in particular if you have it in your garden? Because I thought the spores could wait around for like 20 years or something?
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@clew does rotation actually help with club root in particular if you have it in your garden? Because I thought the spores could wait around for like 20 years or something?
AIUI spore density matters, so keeping it down to a short burst in each zone lets you get one Cole crop a year per zone. And you have a chance of busy micro life knocking it back harder
This may be mostly wishful thinking esp in asmall garden, I should check Extension @sus
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AIUI spore density matters, so keeping it down to a short burst in each zone lets you get one Cole crop a year per zone. And you have a chance of busy micro life knocking it back harder
This may be mostly wishful thinking esp in asmall garden, I should check Extension @sus
@clew that makes sense. And i read more about it and the half life of the spores is 3.6 years so a good rotation schedule would drop the spore density a lot, though you really do have to wait 20 years and keep the bed free of even weedy brassicas to actually get rid of it omg. Apparently there’s a super virulent strain devastating Alberta canola rn while the government is cutting Agriculture Canada funding like we don’t need food.
No sign of club root yet in my garden, thankfully. I think stem cuttings wouldn’t move club root around, but there are plenty of other diseases i could be moving between beds that way! I may live to regret my choices 😬
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Had a lovely morning in the garden today. Some sun, and warm enough that I had to take my coat off.
Today was the first seed planting day of the year.
I cleared last year's brassica bed - so much lacinato kale and mustard to eat and freeze this week! The kale was just bolting and the tops are like little broccolini. I did an experiment and chopped non-woody but not newly-bolted kale stems into 8-12 inch sections and buried them straight up and barely sticking out in this year's brassica bed. We'll see if they root and give me nice strong plants with deep roots.
Last year's brassica bed is this year's legume bed. I planted heilong jiang snow peas, purple mist peas (snow and mid-season shelling pea, but I typically use it is as a shelling pea only), and Barton's broad beans.
I planted the peas at the base of the obelisks and they'll need a little string added to help them climb. And I'll have to put some stakes and string in for the broad beans. But that's a chore for another day.
I also have some sweet peas that I tucked around the clematis and roses. The seeds a bit old, so we'll see how they do.
This winter has been so mild that my strawberries - the albion and allstar - haven't stopped making berries. They don't ripen of course, but it's pretty disconcerting. There hasn't been a month that my alpine strawberries didn't have tasty berries on them. We could still get a cold blast in the next couple weeks, but it really feels like the year without a winter.
@sus I'm very worried for this summer. There's no snow pack, even on the tops of most of the visible mountains. Unless we have an absolute monsoon season of a spring around here, it's going to be a massacre.
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@KolokokoBird @vjgoh it does create an awful foreboding to look up at the mountains and see them green almost all winter
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Had a lovely morning in the garden today. Some sun, and warm enough that I had to take my coat off.
Today was the first seed planting day of the year.
I cleared last year's brassica bed - so much lacinato kale and mustard to eat and freeze this week! The kale was just bolting and the tops are like little broccolini. I did an experiment and chopped non-woody but not newly-bolted kale stems into 8-12 inch sections and buried them straight up and barely sticking out in this year's brassica bed. We'll see if they root and give me nice strong plants with deep roots.
Last year's brassica bed is this year's legume bed. I planted heilong jiang snow peas, purple mist peas (snow and mid-season shelling pea, but I typically use it is as a shelling pea only), and Barton's broad beans.
I planted the peas at the base of the obelisks and they'll need a little string added to help them climb. And I'll have to put some stakes and string in for the broad beans. But that's a chore for another day.
I also have some sweet peas that I tucked around the clematis and roses. The seeds a bit old, so we'll see how they do.
This winter has been so mild that my strawberries - the albion and allstar - haven't stopped making berries. They don't ripen of course, but it's pretty disconcerting. There hasn't been a month that my alpine strawberries didn't have tasty berries on them. We could still get a cold blast in the next couple weeks, but it really feels like the year without a winter.
Update: Kale absolutely will grow from stem cuttings. One month on and it's sprouting new leaves. There's maybe 6 inches of stem buried.
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Update: Kale absolutely will grow from stem cuttings. One month on and it's sprouting new leaves. There's maybe 6 inches of stem buried.
Yes, I do this! Whenever I accidentally cut something while harvesting 😂
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Update: Kale absolutely will grow from stem cuttings. One month on and it's sprouting new leaves. There's maybe 6 inches of stem buried.
@sus Is it recommended, though? My kale has been sprouting smaller leaves, and I wonder if sustaining the old branches might be the issue
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@sus Is it recommended, though? My kale has been sprouting smaller leaves, and I wonder if sustaining the old branches might be the issue
@locha good question! I don’t know yet, but I’ll try to remember to report back in a couple months
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Update: Kale absolutely will grow from stem cuttings. One month on and it's sprouting new leaves. There's maybe 6 inches of stem buried.
This gives me hope for a very slug addled spindle of lacinato I have
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