Excellent. I'm inclined to agree with other folks, sounds like environmental and I'd bet on heat stress or a watering issue. I'd try a shade cloth first
ThrowawaySobriquet
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Couple questions to help narrow it down:
How's the heat been lately? How many hours of sun are they getting? How and how often do you water? Hit it with fertilizer recently? Seen any globs of little bugs under the leaves (probably little green guys or little fuzzy white guys)?
The deer like to top my sunflowers. It's always a heartbreaker
Little of both. Use about half as much basil and as much kale as I can fet away with. I like to sub in toasted sunflower seeds for the pine nuts sometimes
Gorgeous. It'll make a delicious pesto sauce
Huh. I'm gonna try this next season. Maybe do some stuff this fall like that. I wonder how well this will work for surface sows like lettuce
Small Consistent Effort
You keep it small, you never have to worry about burnout. Spend 20 minutes weeding, then go on your day. You keep it consistent, you'll never have to worry about shit getting too big on you. If you're weeding your entire garden in a go, you're working too hard. You might feel like you need to GET IT DONE RIGHT NOW, but that's just your monkey brain going to panic mode.
Relax. Do a little something every day and over time it'll come together.
Bonus: keeping up the effort in the off-season (doing bed prep, conjuring the spreadsheet devils) means less work in the swap-ass summer. Everything you do now pays dividends, and you can eat an elephant if you take it one bite at a time with occasional naps
Love a solid hori-hori, but I've also broken a handful doing dumb stuff. My current daily driver hooks to the left a bit
Just think like Bob Ross and his Happy Little Trees. You can put one anywhere it's comfortable, really
And some marigolds
Like an Oxford comma: not strictly necessary, but better in every way to have
No wonder you got so many strawbs! How many square feet of fruit you growing there? And good luck with the cabbages. I won't be doing any brassica starts for about a month here. Everything I have left is starting to look like this