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Gardening Notes
Zone 8A as of 2023 (global warming?!)
Plants
- Despite my innate touch of death, I am learning how to garden.
- I like to raise herbs and veggies for our own kitchen consumption!
- My best crop so far is a bunch of green onions that came with the house and grow back every year 😼 feels good man to just go outside and cut some for dinner.
- We've been trying to get pumpkins going from leftover pumpkin guts from Halloweens past. They like our mulch.
- Tomatoes, peppers, and potatoes make up the meat of the produce.
- I also like to keep the natural flora going for the wildlife outside.
- Feels good man to see snakes and lizards and hummingbirds and mantises zipping around.
- I have become enraptured by Hugelkultur.
Potatoes
- Don't dig too deep or they'll rot. 4 inches deep maybe, 12 inches apart.
- Trench method - dig a line, cover 'em up. Don't need to hill additional dirt on top.
- Ruth Stout method - Just put em on the floor, no digging, then cover them with straw/dry mulch. Very clean cuz you don't have to dig up dirt.
- Grows very well under frost cover, grows faster