{"id":2738,"date":"2024-09-22T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2024-09-22T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T19:05:15","slug":"garden-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/22\/garden-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden update!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a spring\/summer where I failed to get anything started — started seeds inside too late, started seeds outside before the garden turned on the water after the winter (although the weather was definitely warm enough for maybe a month)… I have progress!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A native flower I grew from seed on my fire escape is blooming. It’s an aster — heartleaf aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium), I think. There’s a taller woodier volunteer aster elsewhere. Nearby native violets have buds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I planted strawberries last week. All but one are coming up now. The variety is “Honeoye”, apparently named after a small town in upstate New York. They’re cold-tolerant, developed at Cornell, so they should easily survive the winters here. I originally wanted to plant native strawberries (Fragaria virginiana), but the cultivated strawberries have much bigger berries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Landrace fava beans<\/a> are coming up. These are supposed to be more heat- and drought-tolerant than normal favas, but still be good for cooler weather. I’m hoping they’ll survive over the winter for an early spring harvest!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Horseradish is coming up. They (apparently) sprout readily from roots or even root chunks, so I just bought one from the grocery store. I intend to eat the leaves, not the roots. Horseradish is a perennial and vigorous, so hopefully it doesn’t mind the shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Foreground and fuzzy) Oland brown beans<\/a>. I read that these are both shade-tolerant and prefer cooler weather (perfect for fall\/spring planting here) and I actually already had them! I had previously bought them from Baer’s Best Beans<\/a> for eating. These are just starting to vine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the foreground are various green onions, many planted from grocery store green onion bottoms. In the back are clumps of arugula and kale (not mine, I think spread from the neighbor’s plot).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My plot is dry (soil doesn’t seem to retain moisture well, despite adding a fair amount of compost) and shady. The summers are fairly hot (90-95\u00b0 regularly, although humid), and the winters fairly cold (usually gets down to ~10\u00b0<\/strong> F at least once).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve had trouble starting seeds, so I’ve been trying to pick perennials to plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An impressive squash or cucumber from 2 or 3 plots down is climbing on the fence, on the tree, and now turning back from where it came.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a spring\/summer where I failed to get anything started — started seeds inside too late, started seeds outside before the garden turned on the water after the winter (although the weather was definitely warm enough for maybe a month)… I have progress! A native flower I grew from seed on my fire escape is … <\/p>\n

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