sus on Nostr: Spent a few hours in the garden this afternoon and got the broad beans and lettuce ...

Spent a few hours in the garden this afternoon and got the broad beans and lettuce planted.

This year’s brassica were in the way so i moved anything still alive into pots.

Some of them were lacinato kale i grew from stem cuttings

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They performed pretty poorly this spring/summer and did not have very impressive root systems compared to the seed grown red russian kale. But they have been doing better this fall, so I decided to continue the experiment. I harvested most of the leaves and gave their pots a little fertilizer. We’ll see what they do over the next few months.

In retrospect, i think autumn would be a better time than fall to do stem cuttings for kale, because they won’t immediately throw everything they’ve got into trying to flower.

Last week i threw a bunch of compost around the tomatoes which will endure for another month or so and underplanted them with more lacinato kale and mustard greens i started from seed awhile back. Today i filled in the rest of the bed with lettuce that i’ll harvest over the winter to leave space for radish and arugula in february/march.

The compost i turned and layered last week is cooking now. The garden is starting to look like it’s fall with some yellow and brown leaves, fat spiders, and everything wet.

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