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Trellising tomatoes today! We're trying out a new method with so/so results thus far.
07/20/2021

Trellising tomatoes today! We're trying out a new method with so/so results thus far.

This hawk has been hanging out with me all day! Even before it started raining all the way to the 3.5"mark on the rain ...
07/08/2021

This hawk has been hanging out with me all day! Even before it started raining all the way to the 3.5"mark on the rain guage. Nice to have a comrade on a rainy day.

New summer edible flower- Bachelor Buttons! Keep an eye on these plants and make sure you deadhead often if you're not...
06/27/2021

New summer edible flower- Bachelor Buttons! Keep an eye on these plants and make sure you deadhead often if you're not eating the blooms - they can propagate themselves easily and have been known to become invasive in NC.

Edible blooms for days! How could you not feel joy when walking through rows of flowers that are head-high? 🥰
06/24/2021

Edible blooms for days! How could you not feel joy when walking through rows of flowers that are head-high? 🥰

Smitten with these Dragon Carrots! What an awesome color!
06/08/2021

Smitten with these Dragon Carrots! What an awesome color!

It's finally blackberry season, and these are monsters!!
06/07/2021

It's finally blackberry season, and these are monsters!!

What a way to start the day! A warm glow on everything and the blueberries are so close to being ready! Should only be ...
05/14/2021

What a way to start the day! A warm glow on everything and the blueberries are so close to being ready! Should only be another couple of weeks before we're eating them 🙂🫐

A mother's love transcends and is inspirational in every species! Happy mother's day!
05/10/2021

A mother's love transcends and is inspirational in every species! Happy mother's day!

Alyssa CB - Plant Detective! What's wrong with this basil?! After a couple of weeks of noticing mold and random necrosi...
04/09/2021

Alyssa CB - Plant Detective! What's wrong with this basil?! After a couple of weeks of noticing mold and random necrosis on otherwise healthy stems, I decided to get to the bottom of this. 🧐

First, I remembered something similar on tomatoes called Pith Necrosis and went to my handy resource here: https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/tomato-diseases-disorders/

Then I googled Basil Pith Necrosis... no results there, but a sentence on a link caught my eye so I went here: https://u.osu.edu/miller.769/2017/06/

That's a lot of words so I searched to find "Necrosis" and then "mold," and lo! Right above the paragraphs on Pith Necrosis is info on Botrytis Grey Mold! (Which reminded me of a convo with Matt and Chase years ago from Endless Sun Produce about this disease).

Bam. Subsequent search on Botrytis Grey Mold in basils and there is our culprit!

Time to trim up these plants, get some more air flow, try to increase the temperature in the greenhouse, and keep an eye on things. Fingers crossed it doesn't spread to much more!

If you haven't already done so, now is the time to prune your blueberries! It seems harsh to cut away so many little bud...
04/09/2021

If you haven't already done so, now is the time to prune your blueberries! It seems harsh to cut away so many little buds, but this ultimately leads to larger fruits (so rarely a loss in yield) and healthier plants.

We are thinning out the center of the bushes to let more light in for the new canes. These will take over for the older ones in a couple of years as we cut back the oldest canes about 20% each year (down to the ground after a few years).

There is a little more to it, so DM me with questions!

Anyone else growing fruits at home?

04/09/2021

Bee tribute part one! These ladies will be the ultimate reason we're able to harvest over 200lbs of blueberries!

So thankful to be able to slow down and appreciate.

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