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Paul H :tinoflag:<p>Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 1971. A young boy sitting besides melons at a local market.</p><p>Fortepan [204715] / Sándor Kereki</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/fortepan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fortepan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Uzbekistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uzbekistan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Bulkara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bulkara</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/melons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>melons</span></a></p>
donkey herder, fowl friend<p>Well, it’s mid June and my forecast lows are finally in the double digits Celsius, so for better or worse I’ve planted the melons. Trying Blacktail and carved seed watermelons, and Kangold and petit gris muskmelons. I’ve been diligently toting them inside and out every day for weeks, and they’ve all got two real leaves. They’re in the smallest terraces, under chicken wire domes. <br />Here’s the extremely cool carved seed watermelons! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gardening</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/melons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>melons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pnwGardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>pnwGardening</span></a><br /><a href="https://uprisingorganics.com/products/watermelon-%d2%abekirdegi-oyali" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">uprisingorganics.com/products/</span><span class="invisible">watermelon-%d2%abekirdegi-oyali</span></a></p>
donkey herder, fowl friend<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/gardening" class="u-url mention">@<span>gardening</span></a></span> some successes.<br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/melons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>melons</span></a>. They’re not ripe yet, but I’m calling them a win anyway, since I have four semi thriving plants and two of them have fruit ripening! Even if we don’t make it, getting this far this year is a win by me. The Adaptive seeds “Kazakh” melons are setting fruit, and the Sand Hill Preservation “sakata sweet” is blooming. <br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tomatoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tomatoes</span></a>. I’ve grown enough tomatoes to give to visitors and to make sauce three times so far. All of the varieties I started have made ripe fruit - “Uralskiy Ranniy” dwarf early determinate, heavy producer, loved containers. “Johnnys striped German” in a wine barrel has given me five pounds of ugly deliciousness so far. “Sokolades” isn’t *easy* to grow but the one in the grow bag gave me a few huge uglies, and the one in the bed with the beans is sprawling lavishly and setting some lovely fruit. <br />I planted “Graham’s good keeper” in a shady spot that was overrun by clover, but it’s made a few fruit anyway. <br />And three “Napoli roma” in the old raised bed are about to ripen loads of fruit. </p><p>More tomorrow, it’s time to listen to a podcast and chill with my kiddo!</p>
donkey herder, fowl friend<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/gardening" class="u-url mention">@<span>gardening</span></a></span> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gardening</span></a> I went out to see what was happening this morning, and I noticed that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eggplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>eggplant</span></a> is finally warm enough to set fruit! I quit counting at a dozen - there are a lot of tiny eggplants coming my way. I think it’s “little fingers.”<br />The little Kazakh <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/melons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>melons</span></a> are coming along nicely! <br />And I picked quite a few green beans, but I ate them as I went, so there’s no evidence. One day the vines will catch up to my appetite, but not yet.</p>
donkey herder, fowl friend<p>Part two: the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/clover" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>clover</span></a> lawn. <br />This little corner of the yard was just grass like everything else. Last summer, I built a bunch of garden bed frames and laid them all out all over the yard, then called my landscapers. This house of disabilities can only do a little heavy lifting! Raul and his guys came and ripped out loads of grass, filled the beds, and laid the pathways and border stones. I knew that I didn’t want to mow the little nook behind the dogwoods, so I had them scrape it too and I planted white clover in the fall and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hazelnuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hazelnuts</span></a> early in spring. <br />I knew that clover was slow to grow, so in May, when there was still just a sparse handful of seedlings, I decided I might as well stick some extra <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tomatoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tomatoes</span></a> out there. Tomatoes led to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/melons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>melons</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/beans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>beans</span></a>, and that’s when the clover finally took off 😂 <br />The clover is knee high and the pollinators adore it. I’ve had to pull some to give the tomatoes room to grow, and their roots are covered in nitrogen nodules. It’s too shady to be a good garden bed anyway, so I’m sticking with the hazelnut grove as a long term plan.</p>
donkey herder, fowl friend<p>And I finished the big planting season! Today I emptied out the grow tent - I had <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cucumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cucumbers</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/squash" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>squash</span></a> sprouting in 4” pots, and I got them all tucked ever so carefully into the ground. Some of these varieties are supposed to be quite sensitive to having their taproot damaged, but I wanted faster gratification so I started them inside anyway. Now they’re all nestled in nice warm beds, with their baby root systems cradled in their potting soil. (And if they die or get eaten, I have plenty of time to re-sow.) <br />The cucumbers ended up in the beds with a blueberry and a tree collard. All the squash are in the bottommost beds at the end of the garden, with the winter squash at the very bottom. <br />I did plant some outdoor seeds! I had about 12’ of bed space unclaimed, so I filled in one partial bed with bush <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenBeans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreenBeans</span></a> and planted the other in some hybrid kale/Brussels sprouts varieties, yum! <br />I finally figured out where to put the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/huckleberries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huckleberries</span></a> I surprised myself with last week! (I seriously have only the vaguest memory of buying huckleberry bushes?) I planted them on a slope, between the corn terraces and the redneck chicken Green Zone, beside a 30’ noble fir - I think they’ll tolerate all that nonsense. And then the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/quince" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quince</span></a> that I do remember ordering arrived. It has a nice logical home, filling the hole where one of the roses died when we transplanted it. RIP rose, welcome dwarf quince! <br />Still to come, I’ve saved three big, hot beds for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/melons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>melons</span></a>. And I’ve got some pole green beans I’ll plant along the fence at the same time, to hopefully come in after the bush beans slow down. <br />Speaking of slowing down, I’ll be very glad to go back to just farm maintenance work tomorrow! I’ll have chicken and equine updates then. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gardening</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/gardening" class="u-url mention">@<span>gardening</span></a></span></p>
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