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Me and the Missus bought a Seville Orange thinking all oranges were sweet i.e. we didn't read the label. As fate would have it the tree is our most successful orange tree. It's a lovely tree and its fruit look terrific - big golden orbs. Anyway...I used to force myself to eat a few so as to kid myself the purchase wasn't a disaster but it was heavy going. But this year we just left the oranges on the tree because they looked good, almost good enough to eat so I did eat one and got a surprise - it was mildly sweet and quite enjoyable. I guess the longer you leave fruit the more sugar builds up or something.

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Most of what I planted this year had poor yields but my tomatoes are kicking butt. This is my 3rd haul in 2 weeks and I should probably do another in a couple days. Thats about 6 lbs right there. The small orange ones are an heirloom variety called golden something or other and are sweet. The others are some kind of beefheart variety from seeds I took from the best tomato I'd ever had. All the seeds from that one germinated I ended up giving a lot of the seedlings away. Oh yeah... and they're delicious. Planted as many as I could and its paying off.

Hello all,

Haven't posted on this sub in a while so I thought I'd share some updates from the garden. Not too much this season since we had (no exaggeration) six straight weeks of rain from the beginning of May through mid-June, so the only stuff that's really doing well is stuff I planted after that. On a brighter note, some "dead" sod I got for free is doing marvelously thanks to the rain, so least there's that!

The azalea cuttings I posted about three months ago all died. Every one of them. I put them in a nice little green house, put fresh aloe vera gel from my aloe plant in there, used rooting hormone... nothing! The only thing I can figure is that the soil I used was too thick. I just got some dirt from the yard but it was probably too thick with red clay and didn't drain as well as it should have.

I finally got some slips to grow from a sweet potato I got at the farmer's market (so it's an organic, local tater). I've been trying to get it to grow a slip for weeks so this is pretty exciting. Got it rooted and in the ground and another's on the way, so hopefully I am not jinxing myself here by saying I might have sweet taters this fall.

Also looking promising are my watermelons. Vines are big and healthy. Lots of male flowers and females flowers have just started arriving but aren't open yet. I am checking them in the morning and will help germinate them with a little paintbrush when the ladies open up their flowers.

Anybody have any experience with sweet taters or watermelon? I've got them growing on mounds of compost / manure soil that's been tilled nicely.

edit - got some purple hull peas a-goin too... those practically grow themselves. If you're ever looking for something to replenish the nutrients in the soil in between grows, throw some out there. Then after you pick the peas, chop up the plants and leave them there in the bed to decompose.

https://www.backtoedenfilm.com/

It keeps the weeds out and reduces the need for watering.

I put down a 30'x30' tarp over the winter to kill the grass. Then I put 4 inches of compost down and 4 inches of cedar mulch over that. I got the mulch from a tree service for free, they sometimes have trouble finding places to dump their tree trimmings so if you call one you can get it. I got the garden out a bit late but it is growing well right now. I'll let you know how it goes.

From the website:

BACK TO EDEN is a documentary about American gardener and arborist Paul Gautschi. Back to Eden is a no-dig gardening method that practices organic growing principles. The sustainable permaculture technique is simply to apply wood chips on the surface of soil to conserve water and regenerate the soil.

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Beefmaster hybrid started from seed, they're about 7ft tall now. Planted the last week of April.
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We're looking to start adding edible mushrooms to our garden. Specifically we're trying out wine cap and almond agaricus in our raised beds.

Has anyone else been gardening with mushrooms?

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Pretty sure we nearly killed a few of them though.. we got them right before our trip to CO, and the soil it was shipped in was too dense for long term. She watered them before we left, but some varieties of lavender are pretty sensitive to wet feet.

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Some of that pooling on the left is from where we flushed the lines prior to capping them off.

Plants will be in holes in fabric spaced precisely at emitters on the drip tape, so there shouldn't be an issues with the plants themselves getting watered.

Big step up from last year. I'll update with more pictures as we get planted!

Here is a pdf file about the study: https://files.catbox.moe/d8u4qy.pdf I have nothing to do with gardening but I would like to hear your thoughts on this. This comes from the alternative theories about our history. Actually, this is the link to the video where I found it: https://files.catbox.moe/cfrucb.mp4 The experiment part starts at 4:00. Before that there is some talk about global warming and the sun. The channel is called Static in the attic if anybody would like to check it out.