Ok! Thanks!
Have you checked for aphids?
I looked pretty closely under the leaves and at the stems, but haven’t seen any.
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Hmmm… looks to me like something having a free lunch. Aphids, spider mites, fungus gnats (typically the larvae will bite young plants at the soil level) any damage around the stems?
I would spray under the leaves with some soapy water if nothing else. And by soap I mean plain ole ivory bar soap shaved off and mixed with water in a spray bottle.
Nah. They look strong and intact. No weeping or bore holes.
I hit them with neem oil. I dunno if thats the right thing though. I’ve never done anything with plant maladies other than cut em down and throw through the chipper.
Neem oil is good stuff.
There are all kinds of plant maladies here and most are insects… lol
Diatomaceous earth works on some but, not all. Sometimes you have to get serious and use some kind of mild insecticide.
I did the year before last.
I’m leaning toward organic/minimal pesticides as I’ve thought more about it the last couple years.
Not out of health concerns or the planet, but because I want to command an army of mantids to do my bidding.
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Jed loves these things. He says only the males fly…lol
Me too. Such amazing and strange creatures they are.
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It look like Septoria leaf spot a lot
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The basil bed is boomin, the fertilizer is shroomin’, and the volunteers are bloomin. 
The tomatoes from seed are doing a little better but still meh. I treated them for the fungus, and fertilized the whole shebang with mushroom manure.
The volunteers that took from last year are blooming and doing good though. Everything else is doing really really good too.
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Gotta dry out some basil.
Trimmed a bunch of flowering tops to keep them in growth mode and prevent them from fulfilling their biological imperative.
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This kind of counts as gardening.
A couple of weeks ago I had a branch from a sugar maple fall down in my yard.
So I cut it up and am innoculating it with mushroom spores. It got dark and the skeeters were coming out, so this is half finished, but I have enough wood to do 2.
Tagging @SkyzykS
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Nice!
Lions main love sweet sugary woods.
That will be great no matter what you innoculate with though.
I keep kicking the idea around to start a mushroom bed too. Its one of those time/effort things.
I was the chef at a hunting lodge in Georgia and I got the bright idea to convert an abandoned well-house on the property to a darkhouse. It worked great, but the gardener hated me for it and all the extra work it caused.
So, we’ll see how the logs work.
This tower is shiitake, was thinking chicken of the woods for the other, but also want to do something weird.
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Another one that loves sweet woods. 
They’ll turn a 6 ft. tall 4 ft. Wide oak stump into dirt in a few years (quickly) though.
A lot of people are into oysters too. There are a ton of different strains, but I can’t vouch for flavors, other that wild. They’re good in my hood!
Apparently they yellow are really popular.
Maitake would be awesome, but au natural might take a couple hundred years. They can be grown in sawdust/cheesecloth bags too.
Check this out! My very own broccoli!
I might be a little late, hence the flowering, but not bad for my first fumbling attempt.
Next year. I learned a little about it this year. Like, plant it earlier. Much earlier. I think this was some time in June. I had all but written the plants I had germinated off, but they just wouldnt die. So I stuck them in with the basil, and bada bing bada boom- broccoli.
Now I have to do something with the leaves, cuz there are way more leaves than heads on these suckers.
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Broccoli started blooming, and seemed way beyond any good for food, so I did what I do with everything else (basil) and stuck it in water.
I don’t know if it will just magically root like basil though. The cute little flowers are nice, but then I tried to smell them.
They smell like big skanky farts.
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