David From Space
I’m David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.
You think you saw me behind some ferns? You just might have!
I think that’s the way to go. A bunch of northern countries have already started working on 2 and 3 - in that more natural, more restricted lighting is available in the city. Especially during the winter, it can suck when daylight lasts only 10 hours or less.
And the dark is just dangerous, even in modern times. For better or worse some primal part of me ‘knows’ that civilization means keeping the lights on and I think most people would agree. We can just be way more responsible and less impactful to nature with it.
We had a windstorm last week and one of my tomato trellises snapped, ohhh noooo! The good news is all the vines survived with minor injuries and are on a new trellis.
I’ve been getting ground cherries by the handful! Time to make jam…
We’ve been getting green beans galore, the peppers are peppering, and the corn continues to corn!
I’m very happy, as my pumpkin vines decided to grow four new gourds! Hooray! The kabocha I’m growing is also doing great, and has a couple new gourds as well! We won’t starve this winter!
The bad garden news is two out of my five cucumber vines have perished, for no real reason I can tell :(
I feel very positive about this, Mongoose seems to have done a good job with their Traveller stewardship so far.
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I’ve started a bunch of mesclun to keep the Baby Greens Train rolling! The garden is providing green beans, and the torrent of tomatoes has just begun. The Shishito peppers are coming in nicely, and the ground cherries have started dropping off the plants!
I imagine Autumnal Damage would be similar to winter arriving in Bone, but with falling leaves.
I’m doing Kabocha and Blue Hubbard~ The hubbard squash was supposed to be a trap crop in the less controlled wildlife garden, but gourd fortune smiled on me and no pests showed up; the vine has gone nuts with 6 viable (large!) fruits on it. It’s my second year trying to grow squash, so 2 outta 3 ain’t bad!