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Monday, July 01, 2024
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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I put 30 of the 4" pot tomato plants into the ground, leaving a dozen extras for round 1 of my frankenstein experiment. The real goal is probably an August pollination and then to keep the rain off anything thats still growing good in September/Oct. I can probably start a couple more rounds in persuit of an early August pollination but time is flying by and thats gonna be it. I wont try to pollinate any past mid August.
One thing I am realizing is that for the most part my soil is still terrible, and my control of weeds is inadequate.
Something is getting bound in the soil or depleted it is especially noticeable in my potatoes, but even the garlic did poorly this year.
Lots of aphids this year. I wanted to tale a pic of some very fat ladybugs but didnt have my phone with me. I guess they prefer eating the black aphids, the grey aphids not so much. I live in a good area for natural predators. I wont spray I'll just let the natural predators do their thing. They always do an excellent job.
The last of the 4 sunflowers is showing a bud. So the tall sunflower thing was a humbling non-success but I wont call it a failure because I did find some dry patches of soil around the sunflowers which pretty much explains why they had no chance of growing very tall. Plants generally take any perceived onset drought as a signal to stop growing and/or reproduce asap.
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