Really enjoyed Seveneves. I call it a very verbose The Martian in that it is a near future thought experiment on what would happen if the moon explodes (literally the first sentence). Gets pretty deep in some of the science as NS is wont to do.

John Scalzi, been a fan for a long time.

Kind of an obscure one but among my friend group who reads we are fans of Matthew Norman. It started with We’re All Damaged which we loved. They are beach reads but consistently fun.

How is it? It is on my to buy eventually list but I haven’t even read Termination Shock yet.

I am reading The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. I am about 2/3 through and so far I am not really getting it. I don’t dislike it and it is well written but I am not entirely sure what about it is making people rate it so high.

Hey! Thanks for the tips. Since I posted that the plants have started ramping up production and I have several zucchini both harvested and growing. The plants do seem to like to make male flowers much more than female and I iwsh it were the other way around. So it goes!

Hey! Thanks for following up. I think it was the transplanting because about a week later they started sprouting newer much healthier looking leaves. one of the vines has grown about 6 feet or so and might be getting a little TOO big. The others are not quite as robust but seem to be doing OK.

No beans yet, but I do have a zucchini growing which I am pleased about! Hopefully the beans are not too far behind.

Thanks again!

Haha I am doing the same thing! First garden, I have tomatoes, zuchini, and beans and every morning I am running outside like it is Christmas. There are like 100 flowers on the zuch but so far nothing and I am like “C’MON!”

Looks like you got one tho!

Robot. Always robot.

Haha I appreciate the honesty. Thanks for the reaponse. It sounds overall like I shocked it when I planted it and it will hopefully pull through

Oh that is great to hear! Thanks for the info! I am very hopeful they will oull through

Thank you for the detailed response. I will keep in mind your first point for next year definitely. it was evident to me that the beans started and grew way faster than anything else I was planting so it sounds like it would make sense to plant them directly in the bed next time. Good tip.

It is the beginning of the season where I am. I only just put them in the ground ~10 days ago. The growing season has just begun. So no beans and they (hopefully) have not reached the end of their life cycle.

As I said in another post this is a newly built bed for this year, so the soil isn’t what I would call “mature” although from a gardening standpoint I am not sure what that means. I did not (foolishly?) combine the fresh raised bed mix soil with my existing, i just put it on top. Succeed or fail, I will leave the roots in the ground at the the season.

I do have plenty of wood ash. I have a wood burning stove and a bucket full of ash that I can easily add. How much do you recommend?

My watering schedule so far has been “whatever nature is doing”. For much of the week and a half or so that they have been in the ground it has been rainy and overcast. Only the last 2 or 3 days has it been sunny.

I appreciate your feedback.

Yes there is some newer growth above this that looks normal (I’d say). But growth is way slower than it was just in the starter pots.