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BrianSkilton
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Garden Update: Cauliflower and Strawberries! =)

Hey guys, just picked a load of strawberries with more on the way. I'm so glad they are doing well this year, ants have got to a few of the really ripe ones however. You win some you lose some though...

The Cauliflower is a "cheddar" cauliflower. I also have purple cape but that is a overwintering variety, wish I would have done more orange as they are 60 days only and not 200-240. The romanesco is finally starting to head.

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Fresh Strawberries!
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Me picking some strawberries in the distance
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Cheddar Cauliflower
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Napa Cabbage
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Strawberry bed using fiberglass screening and cut tubing with large binder clips to hold it down. Works good I think...
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mmmm! Can't wait to use these...
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greg1186
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excellent! how did you get your cauliflower to stay together so tightly? I tried it last year... I blanched it by tieing up the leaves around the head and everything and still ... it seperated

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BrianSkilton
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I put shade cloth around it. Well actually it was the same thing I did with the strawberry bed. It was fiberglass screening from home depot clamped to plumber tubing 1.5inch using binder clips. Anyway it worked great and kept the hot sun away from them. Also I watered them every single day...just flooded them....not to mention all the rain. Man they love water...I also used liquid bone meal and fish and poop ferts.

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What a gorgeous scene (the one with the layout) - You've worked hard and it looks amazing. Thanks for sharing :)

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BrianSkilton
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Thanks Zapatay, yeah its been a lot of work, but its well worth it! :D. If I were to do it again I wouldn't of put it on the border (the ranch is my neighbors). However that is were our contractor said to place the garden and their was already black dirt in the patch. So I decided to place all the beds in the same area.



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