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Carmelo Panucci wrote:Good stuff Ulla. Maybe even more water features, for more life. Do you eat those flowers? I have eaten a lot of beer battered dandelion flowers this year and have wondered about freeze drying them and if that was possible. Hope your garden produces even more this season.
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Rowan Delaney wrote:"Your journey through homesteading is truly inspiring! It’s amazing to see how much you’ve accomplished with your food forest and backyard garden, and the way you’ve embraced both the challenges and the rewards. The story of your passion fruit vines is a perfect example of how nature can surprise us, but your determination to figure it out and move forward shines through..
I’m really looking forward to following your stories and seeing how your homestead continues to grow and evolve. Thank you for sharing these beautiful moments with us!"
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Riona Abhainn wrote:I'd love to hear about what you're growing for your colder weather season, I imagine in your zone you can grow all year long! I live in zone 8 so things slow way down in winter, even if we bring them in when it freezes, some things can survive if we do that or protect them in the freezes, as it isn't always freezing here in the winter, but what I learnt last year when I wintered over lettuce and raddishes they didn't really grow, it was like they were in stasis.
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Carmelo Panucci wrote:Hello Ulla. Truly you are a food garden titan. So well organized and productive. Thank you for sharing your "operation". A constant flow that must leave you always feeling a little behind. Holy smokes, from nursery to freeze dry. Do you wonder what people did before freeze driers? I don't have one but you make me want to get one though my garden productivity doesn't really call for it. Pear cider? Must be delicious. Do you grow Amish style Brandywine tomatoes? A favorite of mine that I miss growing and eating. So. . . When do you and your garden rest? Carrots don't need a break? I enjoy the pictures and look forward to seeing and learning more of what you do. Have an excellent remaining harvest!
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Richi Boyamian wrote:Hi Ulla, also located in SoCal, I have a bit of a question for you regarding wild gardening & weeds, I have a huge issue with the oxalis/wood sorrel variety out here (at least that's what I believe it to be) creeping up in my beds & pots constantly. I don't like to crowd my beds or pots so I tend to leave a bit of extra space - could this be counter intuitive? Should I be lessening the amount of space by just throwing some extra seeds around like lettuce? Or is there some other good method in preventing the weeds besides individually pulling up each one?
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Zone 6, 45 inches precipitation, hard clay soil
May Lotito wrote:Ulla, in a different thread you mentioned you do soil test very year. What kind of test did you do? Basic macronutrients and pH or a more complete one with micronutrients, CEC, OM, base saturation, etc? Do you find the tests helpful or use them to guide your soil management?
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Patrik Schumann wrote:Ulla that all looks great! At 1¼" over two-three stretches we had just enough rain to fill the small tanks (only 1200gals) but not enough to wet the soil deep. Seeded more carrot, beet, onions, chickpea, asparagus, fava, but nothing up yet. On the other side mustard flowering, more nettle, some fava & peas but no sign of the other undercrops. Just reached seed & water disappointment again & turned to find Eric Toensmeier, his new online resource on perennial edible leaf trees + his old book on perennial vegetables. Peaches & apple flowered, grapes & mulberry leafing, figs budding, apricots resting. Enjoying last of the guavas & first of the mustard gomen with Ethiopian berebere. Getting ready for some wet & green relief on my chainsaw vacation in NY, developing individual tree precision forestry from GIS/ LIDAR to release thinning & selection harvest & shifting forest composition for better future across real acreage, though family won't be able to keep up the watering & growing efforts much here in San Diego.
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Andreas made 2 gallons of red kimchi and 1/2 gallon of white kimchi with most of the Chinese cabbages
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Joylynn Hardesty wrote:
Andreas made 2 gallons of red kimchi and 1/2 gallon of white kimchi with most of the Chinese cabbages
Once fermented, how and where do you store it?
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Austin Durant wrote:Love the documentation of your journey, Ulla! I'd love to come check out your homestead to help inspire me for growing more in my tiny urban (North Park) yard!
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Jennie Little wrote:
Dad also grew Matilija poppies, no food value, but beautiful. We called it the "fried egg" bush because of the flowers. And, he planted all the Christmas poinsettia in a line, parallel with back garden wall and it was truly spectacular when they were all blooming.
Do you grow pineapple guava?
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Nancy Reading wrote:Hi Ulla, I'm in awe as ever at your achievements! Thank you for sharing.
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I'm pretty sure this isn't yarrow, maybe I'm just not seeing it.
Do you have allysum as a wild flower there? That's what it looks like to me.
Yarrow have finely divided leaves like feathers and the flowers are larger clusters, usually white, but mine can be quite pink (and garden cultivars all sorts of shades)
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Nancy Reading wrote:Always impressed by the wide range of plants you can grow! If the sugar beet is struggling and you can grow coffee, is sugar cane worth a shot? Lots of good biomass there too perhaps.
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