We've always struggled to grow chard- for some reason it shrivels. But we recently put row cover over a row with a few shrivelly old chard plants and they took off1 Now we're eating it.
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Our attempts at urban agriculture. We wanted to make a record of all the stuff we manage to grow. It's so dang satisfying making food in the backyard.
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2 comments:
Does that mean bugs were the shrivellers?
We don't know!
We couldn't see any signs of it getting eaten, it just didn't grow. And the leaves looked dessicated.
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