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Keeping Track

Spinach

Every year I promise myself to keep better records than the year before and every year’s end I look back and realize I was nowhere near as consistent as I had hoped. Not sure when I planted the lettuce in the pic but it does look good.

So far I am 1 for 2 with the late spinach. The Oriental Giant is showing signs of bolting but the Palco is looking good. The days are still warm but not as crazy warm as they were earlier.

Fred

The bad news is Fred has a case of the powdery mildew. More bad for how he looks than anything. The good news is Fred has been joined by Ethel. The couple have completely taken over the walkway between the two 50′ (I think) long beds.

Frog

I saw one of these little guys last year on the broccoli in my Helpline row across the garden. They must like the cabbage worms or perhaps the few aphids I see occasionally.

Solarization

Anita is trying to beat back clubroot. According to the prevailing wisdom solarization can help to take the numbers of spores down. Hope it works. I’m going to miss brassicas.

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Clubbed

It didn’t take long to figure out I don’t like broccoli-raab.  Toooo bitter for my taste.   Rather than try to force it with something that I don’t like I decided to pull the 6 or 8 plants and use the space for something I did enjoy, like zucchini.  I pulled the plants and when I was starting to chop them for the compost pile I noticed the roots didn’t look right.  I hadn’t grow this plant before but had grown enough other brassicas to know what the roots are supposed to look like.  I didn’t have my glasses with me but I suspected club root.  My stomach sank.  Clubroot is a disease that, once you have it you have it forever.   I called Anita ad asked if she was coming back to the garden soon, I wanted a second opinion.  When she arrived my suspicions were confirmed.

I would go on to find it in the Helpline cauliflower that never really did look right and seemed to be perpetually wilted despite my watering religiously.  It appears the days of planting kale, broccoli and other brassicas are all but gone.