Author: shoshinfarming

Made a nice salad from thinnings today. SIP Gro buckets.

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Lots of Cheese wheel, cut it down with my trusty grub hoe from King of Spades.  Good soil from O.F. Wolfinbarger.  Seeded out to radishes, carrots, lettuce mix, and mountain spinach.  Keyhole sheet mulched raised beds.

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Bagrada have gotten aggressive in areas with dense planting. Mustard is starting to bolt, planning on letting it seed out and disperse them in place

Hopi Tobacco in a SIP bucket.

First year overhead trellising with PVC hoop structure and Amazon Pea trellis netting. Did not produce flush enough to create desired canopy effect. Low soil fertility likely the culprit. Improving organic content will help maximize watering.

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Here we are in June, harvesting beautiful heads of Cauliflower.

Claremont Market Shares.  130 pounds.  34 bunches of Carrots, 34 bags of Lettuce mix, 34 pounds of Blood Oranges.