Josh Mayfield
@joshmayfield.bsky.social
• regen market grower
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Josh Mayfield
@joshmayfield.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Hello, I’m a market gardener in upstate South Carolina. I’m also a seed saver and an amateur vegetable breeder, mostly of tropical culinary pumpkins and butternuts. I also care deeply about our climate and environment. Hoping this is a platform that prioritizes connection over engagement.
Working in the home garden on Thanksgiving morning… I can smell the restaurant across the road roasting turkeys. I can hear the neighbor yelling “Git yo azz out here!” and the clanking of pots. About to run out and snag a tree. Grateful for good food, friends, and tolerable extended family!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Working in the home garden on Thanksgiving morning… I can smell the restaurant across the road roasting turkeys. I can hear the neighbor yelling “Git yo azz out here!” and the clanking of pots. About to run out and snag a tree. Grateful for good food, friends, and tolerable extended family!
🌱 We’re going on 9 weeks of harvesting this sprouting broccoli now (Happy Rich F1). It hasn’t yielded well most weeks due to drought and being shaded out in the early season. But I harvested 20 lbs this week from our 50 ft row, and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down!
November 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
🌱 We’re going on 9 weeks of harvesting this sprouting broccoli now (Happy Rich F1). It hasn’t yielded well most weeks due to drought and being shaded out in the early season. But I harvested 20 lbs this week from our 50 ft row, and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down!
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From now through December 2nd, take 20% off all seeds (including bulk sizes!) when checking out from plantgoodseed.com with discount code “HOLIYAYSEEDS” This sale runs through December 2nd. #🌱 #plantillustration
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
From now through December 2nd, take 20% off all seeds (including bulk sizes!) when checking out from plantgoodseed.com with discount code “HOLIYAYSEEDS” This sale runs through December 2nd. #🌱 #plantillustration
🌱 This ‘Eruption’ from Uprising Organics. Very upright habitat that I like, fewer bugs hiding in the leaves it seems. Heads are a little loose, but otherwise they look just flawless.
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🌱 This ‘Eruption’ from Uprising Organics. Very upright habitat that I like, fewer bugs hiding in the leaves it seems. Heads are a little loose, but otherwise they look just flawless.
The primary restaurant that buys our produce, Topsoil, recently received a Michelin recommendation! Topsoil is really committed to the farm-to-table model, growing their own produce and buying as much locally as they can. Here are a couple items they made with our pumpkins and beets recently.
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The primary restaurant that buys our produce, Topsoil, recently received a Michelin recommendation! Topsoil is really committed to the farm-to-table model, growing their own produce and buying as much locally as they can. Here are a couple items they made with our pumpkins and beets recently.
Y’all follow @klausbrugger.bsky.social in case he decides to start posting on Bluesky. Incredible amateur plant breeder working with squash, radishes, tomatoes, and probably more I’m forgetting.
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Y’all follow @klausbrugger.bsky.social in case he decides to start posting on Bluesky. Incredible amateur plant breeder working with squash, radishes, tomatoes, and probably more I’m forgetting.
🌱🌶️ Enjoyers of red chili pepper flakes, does this look like the right ratio of seeds to flakes? I sifted out a lot of seeds, considering adding some back in though.
November 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
🌱🌶️ Enjoyers of red chili pepper flakes, does this look like the right ratio of seeds to flakes? I sifted out a lot of seeds, considering adding some back in though.
🌱 The red cabbage couldn’t handle a 23F low, but the one green cabbage that got mixed in looks perfectly healthy! At least I’ll get one cabbage this year 😂
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🌱 The red cabbage couldn’t handle a 23F low, but the one green cabbage that got mixed in looks perfectly healthy! At least I’ll get one cabbage this year 😂
Sorghum cover crop to serve as a mulch for garlic beds. Probably should have used buckwheat given our cooler temps, but I hoped this would be resistant to nematode (this variety isn’t, sadly). A few weeds here and there, so I’m tarping for a couple more weeks before I plant garlic.
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Sorghum cover crop to serve as a mulch for garlic beds. Probably should have used buckwheat given our cooler temps, but I hoped this would be resistant to nematode (this variety isn’t, sadly). A few weeds here and there, so I’m tarping for a couple more weeks before I plant garlic.
Life updates: baby Robin arrived, and our firstborn has a fractured leg. It’s been a crazy couple weeks here 😅
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Life updates: baby Robin arrived, and our firstborn has a fractured leg. It’s been a crazy couple weeks here 😅
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New mullein variety: Purple Throated / Nettle Leaved (Verbascum chaxii). This one had been kicking around in the planting stock for awhile, waiting for regeneration. We started regrows in both the Ojai seed production zones last year. Now it’s ready! www.plantgoodseed.com/products/pur... #🌱
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
New mullein variety: Purple Throated / Nettle Leaved (Verbascum chaxii). This one had been kicking around in the planting stock for awhile, waiting for regeneration. We started regrows in both the Ojai seed production zones last year. Now it’s ready! www.plantgoodseed.com/products/pur... #🌱
🌱 This is just your reminder that Sweet Garleek overwinters beautifully and can be perennialized.
- Sow in late summer
- Harvest next spring by cutting at ground level
- It sends up new growth, then dies in the summer
- Several new shoots come up in the fall
- Selectively harvest from each bunch
- Sow in late summer
- Harvest next spring by cutting at ground level
- It sends up new growth, then dies in the summer
- Several new shoots come up in the fall
- Selectively harvest from each bunch
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🌱 This is just your reminder that Sweet Garleek overwinters beautifully and can be perennialized.
- Sow in late summer
- Harvest next spring by cutting at ground level
- It sends up new growth, then dies in the summer
- Several new shoots come up in the fall
- Selectively harvest from each bunch
- Sow in late summer
- Harvest next spring by cutting at ground level
- It sends up new growth, then dies in the summer
- Several new shoots come up in the fall
- Selectively harvest from each bunch
40 degree temp swing tonight, bit wild for our area. Then tomorrow the first hard freeze arrives with lows around 24F. No easing into winter this year!
November 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
40 degree temp swing tonight, bit wild for our area. Then tomorrow the first hard freeze arrives with lows around 24F. No easing into winter this year!
- Broadcast a cover crop in the fall
- Apply a thin layer (~0.8 yds/100') in germination and increase biomass
- Crimp in the spring.
It’s my favorite no-till method for managing permanent beds in the off-season, and can easily scale with the right attachment for a tractor.
- Apply a thin layer (~0.8 yds/100') in germination and increase biomass
- Crimp in the spring.
It’s my favorite no-till method for managing permanent beds in the off-season, and can easily scale with the right attachment for a tractor.
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
- Broadcast a cover crop in the fall
- Apply a thin layer (~0.8 yds/100') in germination and increase biomass
- Crimp in the spring.
It’s my favorite no-till method for managing permanent beds in the off-season, and can easily scale with the right attachment for a tractor.
- Apply a thin layer (~0.8 yds/100') in germination and increase biomass
- Crimp in the spring.
It’s my favorite no-till method for managing permanent beds in the off-season, and can easily scale with the right attachment for a tractor.
It was a crazy amount of work this year, but the fall garden is looking so good right now. First hard frost coming next week, can’t wait for candy carrots.
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
It was a crazy amount of work this year, but the fall garden is looking so good right now. First hard frost coming next week, can’t wait for candy carrots.
Tried both a hybrid (Dragon) and an OP (Fino) fennel for the fall. They look incredible, but both suffered from sunburn as transplants, and I only had about 10% survival. May experiment with direct seeding next year.
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Tried both a hybrid (Dragon) and an OP (Fino) fennel for the fall. They look incredible, but both suffered from sunburn as transplants, and I only had about 10% survival. May experiment with direct seeding next year.
🌱 I originally transplanted my leeks into trenches made in a fresh layer of compost. These two photos are the before/after of using a hoe to hill them up. Pretty smooth process! I think I’d grow alliums and collards as my only winter crops if I could.
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🌱 I originally transplanted my leeks into trenches made in a fresh layer of compost. These two photos are the before/after of using a hoe to hill them up. Pretty smooth process! I think I’d grow alliums and collards as my only winter crops if I could.
🌱 Mantanghong radish looking great! I learned recently (from someone on here?) peeling the outer layer removes the peppery part. Even my daughter will eat them that way!
October 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🌱 Mantanghong radish looking great! I learned recently (from someone on here?) peeling the outer layer removes the peppery part. Even my daughter will eat them that way!
🌱🌶️ The hybrid pepper I bred is almost ripe! This was a cross between a yellow and a red pepper. The ‘y’ gene that gives peppers their yellow color is a recessive trait, so the F1 hybrids are red, and yellow fruit won’t show up until the second generation.
October 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🌱🌶️ The hybrid pepper I bred is almost ripe! This was a cross between a yellow and a red pepper. The ‘y’ gene that gives peppers their yellow color is a recessive trait, so the F1 hybrids are red, and yellow fruit won’t show up until the second generation.
🌱 Pulled the rest of the sweet potatoes today due to the cool nights. Variety is Covington, selected for its nematode resistance. Also plenty tasty! We planted these slips into beds with several inches of composted woodchips on top. Very easy harvest, with clean tubers.
October 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🌱 Pulled the rest of the sweet potatoes today due to the cool nights. Variety is Covington, selected for its nematode resistance. Also plenty tasty! We planted these slips into beds with several inches of composted woodchips on top. Very easy harvest, with clean tubers.
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How many times do I have to tell you that we are not going to solve any food crises by growing bougie lettuce indoors.
High-tech Texas farming company closes doors, cuts over 100 jobs
The grower pulled the plug on its greenhouses.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
How many times do I have to tell you that we are not going to solve any food crises by growing bougie lettuce indoors.
🌱 It’s not easy growing great lettuce in our climate in the spring, but our fall-planted butterheads are thriving! Next year I’m hoping to trial shade cloth to help us grow the rest of the season.
October 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🌱 It’s not easy growing great lettuce in our climate in the spring, but our fall-planted butterheads are thriving! Next year I’m hoping to trial shade cloth to help us grow the rest of the season.
🌱 Possibly our last batch of bouquets for the season dropped off at our local coffee shop. Love these colors! I post mostly about the veg side, but the flowers are vital to our market garden.
October 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🌱 Possibly our last batch of bouquets for the season dropped off at our local coffee shop. Love these colors! I post mostly about the veg side, but the flowers are vital to our market garden.
Feeling a bit of burnout setting in, but this week should be the last of the busy season. 20 new 100’ beds broadforked. Half of them cover cropped already. Clearing lots 1 by 1 at home, transitioning to overwintered flowers or cover crops. Ready for baby boy to arrive and a slower, sleepless pace 😂
October 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Feeling a bit of burnout setting in, but this week should be the last of the busy season. 20 new 100’ beds broadforked. Half of them cover cropped already. Clearing lots 1 by 1 at home, transitioning to overwintered flowers or cover crops. Ready for baby boy to arrive and a slower, sleepless pace 😂