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Happy National Potato Day! I let several volunteer potatoes grow this year and harvested the first one this week and ended up with some nice looking spuds. I’m guessing these may be the result of some true potato seed (TPS) that I grew last year from seeds saved from a neighbor’s potato berries the previous year.

Usually I get stuff to test out but this time @drycodegear sent some footwear for @maginashun to try. He has been wearing them around the property for the past couple weeks. They appear to be chickennproof. We’ll have to wait a few more months to test out their waterproofness cuz we haven’t seen any rain in several months.

Happy #tomatotuesday! These are the first of the tomatoes to ripen this year.

Almost time to start fermenting all the things!

Ugh my peppers keep falling over and/or breaking branches from all the weight of the peppers. Orange lesya is the most recent casualty. The first pod was just starting to ripen too. Need more tomato cages!

Today was bottling day for my first “traditional” mead. The only ingredients were water, maple blossom honey, yeast and yeast nutrient. Still have 3 other batches of meads aging and waiting to be bottled.

My Veronica started from seed just started flowering and I accidentally broke off the top. I sure hope it will continue to push out some side shoots of flowers. 🤞🏼

Have a patch of cone flowers that grow in the middle of the corn and potato patch. Not an ideal place for them but I can’t bring myself to move them. They give a patch of color to the green and attract the pollinators.

It’s #blueberryseason! Chandler blueberries look like they will be the most productive variety 3 years in a row. Picked 1.5 lbs today and more ripening up soon.

First fig of the season that the birds didn’t get to. I’m having to protect them with mesh bags this year. They got my one and only Brandon street unknown a couple weeks ago. Just shared my fig update and tasting video if you want to see more.

Happy #tomatotuesday! The 2nd variety to ripen is supernova. I had a tough time starting this one. It was a very sickly plant and I almost didn’t grow it but I found room for it and now it’s thriving. If you missed it, spoon was the first variety to ripen. A few more varieties are starting to show some color now too.

The peppers are growing but have only had one ripe pod so far. Some varieties are better picked green though like this shishito. I have a new pepper update up if you want to see how they’re all doing.

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