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Well, I think I may have lied. I said I was only going to grow tomatoes and peppers this year, and I went ape shit and bought all kinds of plants/seeds.
I'm growing:
Squash (yellow)
Zucchini
Okra
Eggplant
Green beans
Cantaloup
Peppers
Tomatoes
Brussel sprouts (first time, hoping they do good)
Radishes
Edamame (saw these at Home Depot and decided to try them out...I love the fruit in salads).
cucumbers
Asparagus (this bed remains year after year, just harvest them and spread compost material on the bed)
This is the way it looked one week ago....I already have several little tomatoes on my tomato plants...
And, I did finish putting rocks in my paths...lots less work pulling weeds...although there is some sort of grass that is managing to come through the newspaper, black cloth and rocks...damn, some strong sort, for sure.
This is how the paths look now.
I've also hayed almost all the beds to keep the weeds down.
Hello, all. I am having some results with my garden but I got a late start. Mine is very small this year compared to most years as I had some family issues to deal with. I plant the usual suspects--tomatoes, spring onions, sweet onions, sweet bell and banana peppers, couple egg plants, a few green beans, lettuce varieties, beets, a hand-full of leftover blue potatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, and some Christmas beans so far. Sounds like a lot but I do high density planting in smaller spaces with very mixed results depending on what the weather is like and how hungry the deer are.
Hello, Mertex. Thanks. No it really is small this year--maybe 40X35 or so--haven't really measured. I have never planted this densely before so I expect problems along the ways--I doubled up on my row widths and narrowed my spaces between them. I usually plant the area I did this year, another spot about 35x35 and a third area maybe 120x40. I will put up some pics when I have something worth showing. I am in the edge of zone 7 in Virginia so our season is really just starting with all the spring rain and snows having kept it too cold/wet. My tomatoes are barely hitting on a foot still and my greenbeans are just starting to leaf out some. Have had a little lettuce and spring onions.
My garden, I think is only 20X40 or 20X50, not exactly sure which, so yours is way bigger. I usually plant my tomatoes too close to each other, this year I tried to spread them a bit further, but now that they've grown, they're looking pretty crowded. Yep, you're in a colder zone than we are, (we're zone 8) although this year the winter lingered and my garden had a late start. My radishes are not doing so well, I usually get nice big ones, this year they are small, but very tasty. I planted them in a bed where I haven't worked in really good soil, so that may be one of the reasons. I lived in Virginia (Fairfax) some years back - had a small yard, but was able to grow nice big tomatoes in my flower beds...
Got the rest of my garden planted today just as it was starting to rain so it worked out perfectly. Will throw some pumpkin seeds down round July 1, but otherwise for the rest of the season it will be weeding and eating.
Tomatoes,peppers, and herbs like sage and rosemary in containers and a few flowers in the planters and flower beds in the front yard.
Tomatoes,peppers, and herbs like sage and rosemary in containers and a few flowers in the planters and flower beds in the front yard.
What is the secret to getting rosemary to grow? I can get many things to thrive, but the second I touch rosemary, it croaks.
Tomatoes,peppers, and herbs like sage and rosemary in containers and a few flowers in the planters and flower beds in the front yard.
My garden, I think is only 20X40 or 20X50, not exactly sure which, so yours is way bigger. I usually plant my tomatoes too close to each other, this year I tried to spread them a bit further, but now that they've grown, they're looking pretty crowded. Yep, you're in a colder zone than we are, (we're zone 8) although this year the winter lingered and my garden had a late start. My radishes are not doing so well, I usually get nice big ones, this year they are small, but very tasty. I planted them in a bed where I haven't worked in really good soil, so that may be one of the reasons. I lived in Virginia (Fairfax) some years back - had a small yard, but was able to grow nice big tomatoes in my flower beds...
I did things like plant the spaces between my tomatoes with georgia sweet onions to try to fill in the void. I guess I will see how well this works. in a few months. I used to live in Fairfax near Mason and then moved down Braddock to the Kings Park area. I hated that place. Way too much traffic. I live in the south central part of the state now (Danville area where they are dredging that Duke Energy coal ash spill out of our water supply as we speak) Radishes are hit and miss for me. Seems like the longer ones do better than the round ones, but I am not a big fan of them either way.
[MENTION=48997]sameech[/MENTION] For Rosemary try cutting bananna peels in inch long pieces. and spread them around the base of the plant. I use a concoction of bananna peels, coffee grounds and egg shells and old outdated spices and put them in a blender and puree them with an equal amount of water. There's all kinds of magnesium, phosphorus, calcium etc in this mess and it makes very fine fertilizer. One other important thing is to never put any chemicals in your garden that kills worms. Worms are the secret to a productive garden. Just ask [MENTION=43625]Mertex[/MENTION].Tomatoes,peppers, and herbs like sage and rosemary in containers and a few flowers in the planters and flower beds in the front yard.
What is the secret to getting rosemary to grow? I can get many things to thrive, but the second I touch rosemary, it croaks.
[MENTION=48997]sameech[/MENTION] For Rosemary try cutting bananna peels in inch long pieces. and spread them around the base of the plant. I use a concoction of bananna peels, coffee grounds and egg shells and old outdated spices and put them in a blender and puree them with an equal amount of water. There's all kinds of magnesium, phosphorus, calcium etc in this mess and it makes very fine fertilizer. One other important thing is to never put any chemicals in your garden that kills worms. Worms are the secret to a productive garden. Just ask [MENTION=43625]Mertex[/MENTION].Tomatoes,peppers, and herbs like sage and rosemary in containers and a few flowers in the planters and flower beds in the front yard.
What is the secret to getting rosemary to grow? I can get many things to thrive, but the second I touch rosemary, it croaks.
I lived in Arlington, too, then came back to Texas...then ended up in Va again. This time in Fairfax and later bought a townhouse in Vienna, just a few blocks away from where we lived in Fairfax. The traffic was horrendous. I worked in DC, and if not for the subway, it would have been a nightmare.
I've never tried the long radishes...maybe I should try those. I've harvested quite a few now, but they are all rather small. I have to work some good soil into that bed, it's one I didn't use much before.
Yes, I meant good old fishing worms -earthworms. Also I plant rosemary where they don't get a lot of water. It has to be watered occasionaly but they are like azalias - they don't like to get their feet wet.( That's what an old gardener told me)[MENTION=48997]sameech[/MENTION] For Rosemary try cutting bananna peels in inch long pieces. and spread them around the base of the plant. I use a concoction of bananna peels, coffee grounds and egg shells and old outdated spices and put them in a blender and puree them with an equal amount of water. There's all kinds of magnesium, phosphorus, calcium etc in this mess and it makes very fine fertilizer. One other important thing is to never put any chemicals in your garden that kills worms. Worms are the secret to a productive garden. Just ask [MENTION=43625]Mertex[/MENTION].What is the secret to getting rosemary to grow? I can get many things to thrive, but the second I touch rosemary, it croaks.
We compost, so everything that is not meat or dairy or has been cooked goes into the compost...I actually don't have to do anything to my Rosemary plants. I make cuttings from the older plants, put a little root starter on the stems and then plant them in little 4 inch pots, they take off easy...then I just plant them in the ground.
I guess you mean worms in the ground....yep, they are very good. You do not want the worms that like to eat tomato plants....those have to be dealt with.