I found a way to curb my seed-buying addiction. Buy more seeds!
Just dropped about $40 at Baker Creek for another 15 or so packs of assorted veggie seeds
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Much safer on the wallet, and most of the stuff you don't have to do anything special to get seeds for next year.
I am planting a variety of everything to see what does well here this year just to get more seeds from those. Once I get my large garden set up for rows of plants I'll mass produce a few things there and keep the backyard garden for tomatoes and peppers.
I just started the last section of my garden with some beets and such for fall. I also culled a cherry tomato and a cucumber that were not super. I filled in the blanks with new tomato plants I had started so I have more slicers. All the 18 varieties of carrots are coming up but I have fucking chipmunks and have no clue if they will make it to term.
I can see most of my garden from the back door. I pruned back the mulberry and peach trees back right now that they are done fruiting and un-shaded another 30 square feet or so. I have been both lolli-popping my tomatoes and snipping every sucker and they are still fruiting well and are way easier to manage and wath for bad bugs and worms.
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The green hydrofarm plant dish there behind the monolith is a bird bath I keep filled when I water. The fleet of birds I have removing insects from the garden is amazing. This is the grandpa of a huge flock that resides near the bird feeder. Yesterday he decided it was cool to take a swim while I was fairly close. Great stoner moment.
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This is from this morning though. he is the only bright red one. Grandma has a bright red beak and some flair, but the younger ones are all fairly dull brownish red. Anyway, I usually burn one looking out the back door and tripping on whatever is there.
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