muckmaster
@plantwarlock
compost entrepreneur
Every year I figure out how to grow one new vegetable, and fail at others. This year it’s tomatoes
I did a rapid botanical assessment of one of Oregon’s big fires in 2020. This area is in a patchwork of BLM and private timberland, with short harvest rotations. Mortality was 100% on all industrial forest lands. Only the older forests without recent logging on adjacent USFS had a mosaic of impacts.
Since I’ve deferred trying to make our “market” garden profitable, I’ve been donating to a local Food Not Bombs chapter. We’re in an incredible region for growing food, but most of that land goes to high-end wine grapes and (less so these days) cannabis. But there is a lot of poverty out here.
dig through the ditches and burn through the witches I slam in the back of my:
Rabbits are eating all my tomatoes but I don’t even care, look at this
man, wish I could give this dude a hug and then slap some mandolin with him
I can tell the far NorCal coast counts as the PNW because check out this stand of sambucus
Pretty happy about these bok choy harvests since it’s my first time and they are notoriously challenging. Burlap shade cloth did wonders during our March heat wave. The next load will be headed to the local Food not Bombs chapter
Pulling about half the tomato starts into the house since we have a freeze warning tonight. The others will have to tough it out in the low tunnels. This weather isn’t that unusual but it’s jarring after summer temps in March. Climate change is hell if you love plants!
Laid out 3 or so yards of the stuff. Mild winter has us about a month ahead of schedule and the overwintered cabbage, celery, and garlic are putting on tons of growth.
Got a fresh load for some new beds. Sticker designed by the maestro @bbburgerrr.bsky.social
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It’s been an incredibly mild January and the salad greens are doing great. I love gardening in this climate!
In better news I found some redwood slabs in the woods by the house today. Previous owner had a portable mill back there or something. These have a little rot but they’ll work for garden benches.
SHOULD’VE BEEN A COWBOY/ SHOULDA LEARNED TO ROPE AND RIDE/ WEARIN MY SIX SHOOTER ON A CATTLE DRYYY-IIIVE
I’ll take the second edition field version since the 7 volume set might be hard to hold in one hand