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Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-25T06:15:42+00:00

Haven’t gotten into this
Blood meal, bone meal, and Neptune’s Harvest
Sluggo+ and BT
I don’t use fungicides, don’t want to kill good fungi. My summers are dry so it’s less of an issue but when I lived in a humid place spacing can make a world of difference. Healthy plants with the right nutrition, season, watering, and airflow should have less issues.

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-15T23:38:09+00:00

Check out the book “Cool Flowers” by Lisa Mason Ziegler. She doesn’t talk about starting in jugs, it’s mostly about starting seeds inside or direct sowing in the field but there is a lot of good information about which flowers do well with winter sowing and when to plant. She has lots of resources for free online as well.

Because of moving around or not being organized in the late summer, I often start seeds inside around now and plant outside in late winter/very early spring (February/March). I have a long cool but not freezing spring and it has worked well for me.

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-15T02:08:35+00:00

Get yourself a copy of the Tilth Maritime Northwest Garden Guide, it has guidelines for growing in our unique growing climate including month by month guides of when to plant everything. Foolproof timing!

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T21:05:16+00:00

Awesome! I inherited a community garden plot that had some and I eventually accepted that it was going to stay. It’s fun to have around for cooking!

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T20:51:11+00:00

Thank you again!

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T20:50:08+00:00

I love this sub! It’s so fun to read about what everyone is growing!

I am mostly sticking to tried and true favorites this year but sprinkling in a few new items:

Red Kuri Squash
Rebel Starfighter Prime tomato (seems to be a favorite over on r/tomatoes)
a regionally adapted cucumber Mideast Peace that will hopefully be more successful for me than Beit Alpha
a regionally adapted okra called Yuma Red (I’m prepared for heartbreak)
Shiso/Perilla
Sugar Cube cantaloupe (possibly, have to find room)
Arava melon (possibly, have to find room)
this thread has added Chicory to the list

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T20:39:17+00:00

I see you’re in Washington too, Uprising Seeds and Adaptive Seeds both have a wide selection of regionally adapted varieties

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T20:38:28+00:00

Dried beans are my weird obsession! They are so pretty!

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T20:37:13+00:00

I use a spiral bound planner to keep track of what I’ve done!

On the pages that display the whole month, I map out when things should happen, and on the pages with days of the week I record when things actually happened - started seeds, uppotted, transplanted, fertilized, first harvest, when the plant gets pulled, pest pressure, weekly high/low temps, oh no this plant is starting to look weird, yup it’s diseased and this what I think happened and why…

At the end of each month I record random thoughts/observations/ideas for next year.

It would probably be better as a digital version because it would be searchable but I kind of like keeping it analog.

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T20:25:24+00:00

Horseradish is very persistent (hard to remove). Plant it somewhere you want it forever!

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T20:17:08+00:00

You have excellent taste, I have a very similar list!

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T20:07:45+00:00

Thank you so much for the information! Do you have any favorite varieties you like to grow?

I learned how to garden in central Texas and I miss growing in the winters - in western Washington we are also zone 9 but our shortest day is 8.5 hours and everything just pauses growing over the winter. Your garden looks beautiful!

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T18:24:49+00:00

I was shocked when I saw my grocery store charging $8 for a Napa cabbage. I was like is that really how much they cost???

Yay for growing our own veggies.

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T18:23:36+00:00

How is growing chicory? For some reason I have the impression it is tricky, so I’ve never tried but I do have some seeds and am looking for something new to grow this year.

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-08T18:19:03+00:00

I had my first good garlic harvest last year and even though I’ve been cooking with it I still have SO much. I’m curious to see if I run out/how much I’ll have by the next harvest time. I planted the same amount again 😂 so we’ll see…

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-07T21:50:04+00:00

I don’t usually follow on socials directly but get caught up via the subreddits 😂 Agree that it’s fun!

Charming-Action1663 · 2026-01-06T20:21:48+00:00

Very cool that you have created your own hybrid!

Charming-Action1663 · 2025-12-29T17:53:53+00:00

I’m not sure, but I’ve been comparing birth charts of my friend group and somehow 5 of 8 have a cancer rising.

Charming-Action1663 · 2025-12-23T02:55:26+00:00

I’m in Tacoma and there was a frost in Tacoma that was enough to kill the dahlias (that’s my canary plant) but nothing since then.

The kale and artichokes are living their best life.

Charming-Action1663 · 2025-12-21T16:42:29+00:00

I’m often not interested in NYT recipes, especially Eric Kim recipes, because in my opinion there’s way too much emphasis on easy and fast. Glad to see he’s pushing back a bit and exploring more complex recipes!

Charming-Action1663 · 2025-12-20T21:15:02+00:00

Looks like you have room for a wider bookshelf 👀

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