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mostly just post vegetables I'm growing, birds in the off season now too

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2024-07-24 16:08:04

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They certainly do well in pots. Ime, those tend to have earlier ripening, although usually a smaller yield.

2024-07-24 13:00:02

got a few flowers maturing on one of the three little sweet peppers
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2024-07-21 16:00:01

Had some incredibly dry/hot weather for the past few weeks. Wreaked havoc on the cracking, but we do have a few ripe toms.
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2024-07-20 13:30:01

Got a couple melon plants from the neighbor. About ready to go out.
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2024-07-10 18:28:23

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can we please stop acting like this and two-factor does anything more than slow people down?

2024-07-03 16:00:00

Didn't get to use any of the volunteer lettuces before they bolted, but I'll keep some and we'll have plenty of seed for next season.
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2024-07-02 15:25:48

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2024-06-30 14:59:12

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Looking great, and nice layering. I didn't get any potatoes out w/ the family-med thing going on, but a few sprouted on their own...and were within a month or two razed to the ground by those damn potato beetles. may still try to salvage some of the seed-potatoes I've got in the basement and grow a little something just to keep the stock going.

2024-06-30 14:52:10

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have grown a purple bean, romano purpuriat, that you could almost do decoratively. Leaves were a nice rich green but the stem too was that dark purple/red.

2024-06-30 14:48:33

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eh, I've planted bush beans quite close together and had good results, plus you've got some spaces where they can kind of lean and find light if/as others crowd a bit

2024-06-26 16:06:08

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idk although I think it's the citrus in the tea just b/c I tried this back when I first got it, and it's sort of like spicy oregano. not very appealing tbh

2024-06-15 19:57:02

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We have a 12-12-12, and iirc that's the %age of each by volume, so like you couldn't go past 33-33-33 I suppose? It can burn, but yeah it's very good where needed.

2024-05-04 14:55:57

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2024-03-20 19:31:59

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saw this in a japanese lit. class many years ago. it went probably way over my head at that age, but there are a lot of people here who'd probably find a lot in it. 'sunna no onna' in nihongo

2024-03-01 22:22:15

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I only mean "like potatoes" in the sense that you'd need a particular reason (and there is one) to grow from literal seed rather than (in the potato case) a tuber. I.e., do they senesce after a number of generations or some such. Sounds like no, that's just how alpine strawberries propagate if I'm following Zealist.

2024-03-01 22:07:52

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heard those are tiny but super-sweet, and always fun to see how a new plant grows

2024-03-01 22:05:20

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interesting, never done them from anything other than plants or runners. for strawberries, is it just easier to order the seeds, or does it have an effect like w/ potatoes?

2024-03-01 22:02:21

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nice, no time like the present for starting peppers

2024-03-01 06:49:55

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thanks man, I'm chugging along, if a little subdued

2024-02-28 20:59:37

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yep, generally, or at least before they flower

2024-02-28 00:04:23

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slonktastic! XD

2024-02-28 00:03:26

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dag, yeah been there. looking back, in that year I wish I'd focused on things I could preserve in the move like perennial berries/herbs, and storable tubers, cloves, etc.

2024-02-28 00:01:11

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I'll be living vicariously through you this year to some extent, so ganbatte ne

2024-02-27 23:59:51

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Looking happy & healthy

2024-02-27 23:59:02

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Nice, what kind of cucurbits?

2024-02-27 23:34:56

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Thanks man, I'm alright on my end. Yeah I can still get into streams & things that don't take the kind of consistency growing does, but I ended up losing so much produce as I lost the time to process. Don't want to over-promise, but I'll (probably much less frequently) still do a few smaller things, and turn some of the normal growing spaces into wildflower/cover-crops for this year. Silver lining of building some good nutrition I suppose.

2024-02-27 23:01:39

Not likely to be doing much growing this season. In short I have a family medical situation, and there are really no other relatives to step in for now. I'll be around, but I can't put in the consistent time I usually do to pull off a good grow. Who knows, maybe I'll end up w/ some help and can still do a few things - if so, the sheer volume of pre-nuclear seed potatoes could make for an insane grow.

2023-11-22 02:08:54

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Happy Thanksgiving! :D
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2023-11-17 13:00:00

Amazing 139lb sweet potato harvest!
Just like the regular potatoes, still have to sort & clean, but it looks like laying the slip on their side rather than planting vertically helped them form more regularly.
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2023-11-16 13:00:00

Finally at least weighed the potatoes - About 95 pounds of German Butterball!
Still haven’t sorted & cleaned, and obviously there’ll be a few green ones that aren’t good for anything other than maybe as seed potatoes, but it’s pretty good for a 30-ish foot row.
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2023-11-12 20:12:39

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Wonder if they'd like them roasted.

2023-11-09 13:00:01

Surprisingly, found three ocelot and one more mickylee watermelons while I was ripping out the sweet potato vines. Will be very surprised if they're ripened enough to do anything with other than feed them to goats, but we'll see.
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2023-11-06 18:32:01

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It would take a fair amount of space to produce that much ime. I do about 4-6" spacing within, and 12-20" spacing b/t rows. This year I grew iirc about 130 bulbs and that took...didn't measure, but guessing...maybe 30' in 3 rows, I'd say maybe 6' all-said. Not every single bulb was of reasonable quality, so if you wanted 365 a season, I think you might be looking at (swag here) like 90-100' at around 6' wide.

2023-10-27 02:36:50

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2023-10-23 19:23:56

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yeah I guess our markdown enginge doesn't do triple-backtick code blocks? I get the picture tho, thanks

2023-10-23 19:02:37

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I'd checked for updates just yesterday, didn't get any, and was still only getting the "don't use a blocker [but we're not actually going to do anything other than make you wait 5s]" message. Looking through the blocker's interface, I don't see anything to refresh the blocklist, although there does appear to have been an update today.

2023-10-23 18:57:09

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2023-10-22 18:23:18

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Yeah, it's amazing how expensive even the little rinky-dink round cages have become. My neighbor has those square folding ones - super strong, and he just lets foliage drape once it gets to the top (idk something like 5'), but he got them all from a longtime grower who was getting out of it.
I've tried a few patterns, but I'm pretty happy this year w/ starting them in the rink-dink-rounds, putting up 8' tposts w/ pvc junctions running electrical conduit through, then tying four nylon twines right to the cage (which was well-held by the time the toms got up to that maybe 3' level), and trimming suckers other than what got me the four I needed to spiral up those.
Have done the single-stem thing you see in greenhouses, but unless you're in that environment and can go all year, I like the idea of something in between that and an untrimmed bush.

2023-10-22 18:14:08

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Thanks. My concept of a beefsteak is a tomato where, when you cut a slice of it, you've got more flesh than seed cavity and gel. Idk if that's what everyone thinks of, but yeah I suppose they tend to be good as 'slicers' for sandwiches just b/c you don't get your bread soggy.
That said, I haven't grown anything bred as an 'earlygrow', so I couldn't say if there's a tendency for them to have larger seed cavities w/ more gel. Often when you're poking around a seed company will have at least one image of the variety cut open, so I'd just look at that, and hope their images are accurate. "Grow it out" is always the best arbiter tho.

2023-10-22 18:04:16

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My potatoes are pretty much yellowed off. Still have to dig them, but they should be fine through a couple lighter frosts until I get some time off.

2023-10-22 18:03:19

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Yeah I've seen people do stuff like carefully pull out potted potatoes, pick out the developed ones, then repot w/ some new fertilizer to size up the others. Certainly makes sense in a space-limited situation.

2023-10-22 18:01:41

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Neat. I've grown a fair range of radishes, and tbh I think my fav is still just the classic 'French Breakfast'. Didn't do any this year, or any lettuces that weren't just volunteer b/c I can't get salad into the rotation in this house, and making an entire separate dish just for myself is too time-consuming.

2023-10-22 17:57:22

Final harvest of beefsteak/heirloom toms. The Brandywine really shone this year, still putting out monsters right up to the first frost.
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2023-10-20 12:00:00

Didn't think those messed up 'pepperbox' poppies would produce any flowers, but we've got one. Probably won't make a seedhead big enough for baking, but hopefully I can at least refresh the seed stock.
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2023-10-11 12:00:00

If I could've put any pepper in a productive position this year, these would've been it - the humble Pepperoncini. Love these; Just a touch of heat, deliciously sweet. Could snack on these all day.
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2023-10-09 20:00:27

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Supposedly Porphyrios issues a statement saying they're undamaged. Idk but it was shared by some channels that are clearly vehemently pro-Palestinian. t.me/TheMediterraneanMan/1352

2023-10-06 12:00:00

Stevias! Two different cultivars here, one that seems to be putting out blooms, and two starts of another that I cropped & tried to clone a few weeks ago (no success).
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2023-10-04 12:00:00

Eggplants (casper) are also one of the things I didn't really get into a good position for the year, but I've still got at least this little one producing a fruit. Will just let it grow out and refresh the seed b/c what I started w/ was so old I was amazed it gave me any plants and iirc that took like 3wks.
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2023-10-03 13:44:29

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🤔 hadn't tried that. I've mostly only made a tea w/ it. Turns a really bright red when it encounters the acid in lemon juice.

2023-10-03 13:42:23

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The closest thing I can compare it to is cinnamon, but that's not quite it. And I should say more smell than flavor.

2023-10-03 13:41:08

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jealous? poa.st/@collatz/posts/AaKEw4cDuOu7UD83pA

2023-10-03 13:39:47

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tasty too

2023-10-03 12:00:00

Nice to have some plants I like going that just self-seeded. The Akashisos start flowering/seeding very late but they're finally putting out blooms.
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2023-09-30 18:40:59

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Not to rag on Irving, but basically all he says about the (second) Schmeling-Louis fight in Hitler's War was "Hitler was depressed about it; Americans were sending nya nya letters." Really great to hear the fuller story and how much Schmeling's character shined beyond the b.s. propaganda (not to mention that he'd also already beaten louis lol).

2023-09-28 17:36:27

okay which one of you guys got onto the moon-naming committee?
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2023-09-25 11:59:56

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I use the term loosely/ignorantly. Mostly just wishing bone meal wasn't so expensive lol

2023-09-25 06:51:10

seeing a hellthread that involves catacombs w/ incalculable numbers of bones and all I can think is damn that shit has an npk of like 3-15-0 wtf are y'all doing arguing?

2023-09-23 20:10:43

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oh? idk much about chickens, are they allergic to cucurmin or something?

2023-09-23 20:09:04

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here the neighbors grow so much of there own stuff, excess usually goes to the neighborhood goats. they're loving the watermelon rinds atm

2023-09-23 20:05:20

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Last year I did zucchini (just 2 plants) and blanched/vac-pac'ed/froze chunks, assuming I'd use it in soups. Have done it a few times, but yeah there's probably still like 6-8lbs in the freezer even now. Does seem to keep pretty well that way since the air is occluded, but was tough to seal b/c it's so watery.

2023-09-23 19:55:45

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Can't blame her. Unless you're ready to eat it almost every day for a couple months, I feel like this probably happens to most of us.

2023-09-20 12:00:00

Tried that first Ocelot. Lived up to being seedless, and plenty sweet. Not quite as crisp/juicy as our first Mickylee, but still good. Might grow again if I have better luck starting seedlings.
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2023-09-19 01:54:24

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always had a similar motivation - how much of what I eat can I grow? coming to the point where it's also - how little maintenance does whatever need? someone was posting, I think at you, some graphic about "here's how much you can produce off like one acre and feed a whole family", and I remember thinking, "that's cool, but shooting for a little more space, and a little less constant involvement to meet your goal is appealing too."

2023-09-19 01:40:14

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maybe I'll remember to do a heads-up w/ the next generation of german butterballs. gonna have to harvest those soon

2023-09-19 01:32:15

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yeah most people I've heard in this country talk about how they do potatoes cut them up. Idk it's less common in the uk

2023-09-19 01:30:00

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Probably a result of watching a lot of UK allotment growers in my early years, but I've never gotten into cutting apart chits. Should try that at some point.

2023-09-19 00:48:35

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kind of surprise you want I guess

2023-09-19 00:13:23

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I mean effectively yes? Would've preferred only having to cut through chicken wire tbh lol

2023-09-18 12:00:00

Lots of Mickylee watermelons coming in, and I've learned a new precaution about this make-use of space beneath tomato vines tactic.
Still like it, but I'll have to watch out for melons that get hidden by low tom-foliage, b/c they might start forming w/in the tom-cages, and get squeezed by the wire. Literally had to use a hacksaw to pop the cage and get this one out (too tight to get in there w/ wire cutters), although I think it still ripened judging from the tendril.
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2023-09-17 21:42:21

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Yeah idk if you've experienced them, but if you ever see one of these pumpkin-colored ladybug looking guys on your beans watch out. Them and their larvae will absolutely skeletonize your leaves. poa.st/@collatz/posts/AM9N4wgNtchBsi0zS4

2023-09-17 20:30:45

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didn't do any beans this year. now that I've got a decent amount of insect netting, I'll probably keep building it up, buying pvc hoops as affordable, and I can get back to beans w/ better protection against those mexican beetles

2023-09-16 18:00:10

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ah, the 2023 threw me. stared at that for a min and ultimately just googled 'malema stabbed'. still took another min before I guessed "suppose he means big bad malema talks a strong 'kill the boer' game , but ultimately he cap" lol

2023-09-16 17:54:22

this nigga stabbin cows businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2023-09-07-julius-malema-faces-animal-cruelty-charge-for-stabbing-cow-11-times-during-slaughter/
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2023-09-16 17:43:45

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Nah, it's lead by example. They leave someone alive after torture to better spread fear.

2023-09-11 22:40:01

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Funny you remind me of a time as a kid where I had a friend over where we had a bean/rice side and he refused it, literally calling it as you say 'peasant food'. It was weird to me b/c I just had no concept of that, plus this kid's family did a lot of hotdogs & junkfood, and I'm thinking, "we're not rich or anything, but glass houses dude."

2023-09-11 21:52:37

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used to make a lot more bean dishes in the early-working-days than now. awesome way to stretch your chicken, onions, whatever. that and barley; both some of the better plant protein out there and dirt cheap.

2023-09-11 21:43:32

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nice, store bought was how I started my sweet potatoes, now they make more than I can eat in a season. I wish beans were easier here - we have tons of mexican bean beetle.

2023-09-11 21:18:14

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I may be misremembering, but I believe lime is more strictly a buffer than a real astringent. Like, over-supplementation is still a problem for other reasons, but it would tend to force your soil to remain ~6.5ph iirc rateher than push it any higher.

2023-09-11 21:16:35

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reference certainly isn't a bad thing, and getting going on a strong footing is great, but even semi-intentionally messing small things up just to see if some extra effort was really necessary has its own efficiency rewards down the line ime

2023-09-11 21:14:26

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I don't share stuff to suggest to anyone "you should definitely do X", just to say, "here's what I've experienced or heard about X, and the result of that". I'm 100% about the "try stuff" approach you're taking.

2023-09-11 21:11:13

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I think dolomite lime averages something like 2:1 ca:mg. Depending on your soil, water chemistry, etc., that might be fine, but I do know that here, my first year I tilled in lime b/c the plot hadn't been used in years, and still got a few cases of blossom-end rot. Since I've used a bit of epsom salt, literally zero.

2023-09-11 20:01:41

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Not sure where I want to shift the garlics to avoid leaf miners, but I've held back using it as much as I normally do so I have an absurd amount to plant over winter.

2023-09-11 19:51:02

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Thanks. I've never had good luck w/ overwintering myself. Idk maybe it's about being in a latitude sweet spot, but for me onions that go through the cold tend to bolt.

2023-09-10 12:00:00

Pulled those slicers. Brandywine, Krim, the Sugar Rush cherries, Mortgage Lifters and a few Cherokee Purples. All together at the end for a size comparison.
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2023-09-09 20:56:55

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I imagine they can deal w/ it better b/c of how thick the stems tend to be. Sweetmeat stems are thicker than all the c. moschata that I grow (well, only butternut), but those don't seem to get attacked, or at least collapse from it. Idk maybe it's b/c the stems aren't hollow.

2023-09-09 18:11:50

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my sweetmeat winter squash got vine borers I think - whole vine collapsed, but I just try to grow only one variety each of c. maxima/pepo/moschata in a given seaston. Tbh I wouldn't have known zucchini are pepo and probably would have just assumed it's fine if I was growing pumpkins or pattypans.

2023-09-09 18:05:02

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Was it a hybrid? Might be developed enough to save seed?

2023-09-09 12:00:00

Probably just about peak ripening for the slicer toms. Also starting to see a lot of foliage brown off near the bottom. Brandywines, Krims, Mortgage Lifters, and turns out the plant that didn't stretch up like the others was probably a Cherokee Purple.
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2023-09-03 12:00:01

Tucking into the first watermelon of the season.
Nobody else wants any so I literally ate watermelon all day while I worked, and still only got a little more than 1/4 of the way in. Great flavor. Sweet but not too sweet, super refreshing, even seemed to have fewer seeds than last year's mickylees.
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2023-08-31 12:00:01

Closeup on one of the two big Mortgage Lifters. I don't think it's a record even for me, but probably well over a pound.
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2023-08-30 12:59:09

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Yeah it's amazing how late things are ripening this year, but better late than never I guess.

2023-08-30 12:00:00

First mater sammiches of the season. Tbh I try not to do a lot of these but I do go for it w/ the first. Used my two ripest, a Brandywine and a Krim that got a little beat up pulling it out of the crook b/t the truss and the stem.
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2023-08-28 12:00:00

Sunday's harvest. Finally got that first Mickylee, and for a mini-watermelon it's pretty big. A few smaller Krims, a single mid-size Brandywine, and some fairly big Mortgage Lifters, as well as the continuing stream of Sugar Rush cherries.
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2023-08-26 18:59:37

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pure hogwash

2023-08-26 12:00:00

Finally getting some ripe slicers! Brandywine, and what I thought was Stripey, but looks like it's probably Mortgage Lifter. Sugar Rush cherries also putting out a good steady stream of fruit as well.
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2023-08-22 12:00:00

Mmmmbig corn burl
This was actually a few days ago, but still maybe five days after the big harvest. I thought I might've let it go too long and they'd be starchy, but no joke they were even sweeter than the first ears we ate immediately after harvest. Seems this Gotta Have It is a very forgiving variety. Will definitely grow again.
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2023-08-21 12:00:01

Sugarbaby watermelon plants staying extremely compact, but really not producing fruit any more densely than the much more expansive Mickylees. Overall, Mickylee way ahead at maybe 5 fruit, w/ 3 nearing ripeness off 2 plants, and afaict only 2 fruit w/ 1 well-on for the Sugarbaby. Maybe still worth growing if you just start more plants depending on what we see in flavor.
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2023-08-20 12:00:00

Even the slicers/heirlooms are starting to wind their way up their 2nd stage trellacing. Krim, Stripey plants, and Brandywine-fruit here, followed by a view of how I'm sending the Mickylee watermelon foliage along the row beneath them to maximize the space. Will definitely do that again.
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2023-08-19 21:33:35

alright guys, you won. i thought vegetables were a healthy form of sustenance but they seem full of cyanide-related compounds and even deadlier fructose, so i'll leg you having fun without me. i'm going to pave over my garden.
looks like permaculture is even worse than battery farming.
#note1frs…ws48

2023-08-18 12:00:00

Butternut & Sweetmeat winter squash vines nearly filling out their area. Will have to go in and start taking immature fruit to use sort of like zucchini soon to make sure the established one finish/harden well for storage.
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