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scrubjayspeaks) wrote2025-07-12 06:48 pm
scrubjayspeaks) wrote2025-07-12 06:48 pm
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Pandemic Garden Club
Welcome to the July edition of Pandemic Garden Club! Growing good things in strange times!
Anyone is welcome to comment with what they're growing right now, things they would like to try, problems they're encountering, and questions they have. Share resources, answer questions, shout encouragement.
As for myself...
We had a bit of a crisis with one of the peach trees. Even after thinning, the weight of them broke some branches. We’ve got a batch of them sitting in the house, hoping against hope that they’ll ripen to some degree. The branches have been braced up. It needs to be pruned back seriously to get the shape under control again. Since it’s been a stellar year for peaches--which has never happened before--the trees will probably want to rest next year. So aggressive pruning is unlikely to deprive us of a crop we would otherwise get.
The newest peach tree (which is still very upright and well-shaped) is producing the largest peaches I have ever seen that weren’t commercially grown.
Eeheehee, colorful sunflower! We got a nice batch of reasonably sized ones, instead of about three giants alone, as in past years.
Meanwhile, the sunchoke starts we bought have put out lots of new growth. There are also some new sprouts coming up, which means they’re successfully creating additional tubers under the surface. Woo!
We got a lovely crop of asparagus this spring. Now they get left to their own devices, storing up energy ahead of winter so they can do it all over again next spring. For those who haven’t seen asparagus cultivated before, these ferns are what they look like when the spears aren’t harvested. They’re at least six feet tall. They’re also so densely packed that they create little forest paths between the rows. Not quite as good as the rows of corn, for the sole reason that I can’t fit between these ones currently, but still very satisfying to look at.
Anyone is welcome to comment with what they're growing right now, things they would like to try, problems they're encountering, and questions they have. Share resources, answer questions, shout encouragement.
As for myself...
We had a bit of a crisis with one of the peach trees. Even after thinning, the weight of them broke some branches. We’ve got a batch of them sitting in the house, hoping against hope that they’ll ripen to some degree. The branches have been braced up. It needs to be pruned back seriously to get the shape under control again. Since it’s been a stellar year for peaches--which has never happened before--the trees will probably want to rest next year. So aggressive pruning is unlikely to deprive us of a crop we would otherwise get.
The newest peach tree (which is still very upright and well-shaped) is producing the largest peaches I have ever seen that weren’t commercially grown.
Eeheehee, colorful sunflower! We got a nice batch of reasonably sized ones, instead of about three giants alone, as in past years.
Meanwhile, the sunchoke starts we bought have put out lots of new growth. There are also some new sprouts coming up, which means they’re successfully creating additional tubers under the surface. Woo!
We got a lovely crop of asparagus this spring. Now they get left to their own devices, storing up energy ahead of winter so they can do it all over again next spring. For those who haven’t seen asparagus cultivated before, these ferns are what they look like when the spears aren’t harvested. They’re at least six feet tall. They’re also so densely packed that they create little forest paths between the rows. Not quite as good as the rows of corn, for the sole reason that I can’t fit between these ones currently, but still very satisfying to look at.
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