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Mother Earth News garden planner and questions....
It seems pretty cool and I am enjoying trying it out for 30 days but wondering if anyone has experience with using it?
I am really trying to have some success this year since last year was awful. The only thing I really had success with was my lettuce. I used the topsy turvy for tomoates and got 2 tomatoes. My tomato plants from the previous summer came back in late July and choked out my pepper plants. The hornworms got the tomato plants. Nothing ever happened with my squash plants, guessing they were choked out by the return of the tomato plants as well. I had great success with lettuce in the fall after we put in a 4x4 raised bed plot but my broccoli got eaten alive by cabbageworms. My strawberry plants gave off 2 strawberries and this was the second year my blueberry bushes didn't do anything.
I'm hoping this planner will help me be more organized in my planting. I am planning on starting the spring off with lettuce, spinach and peas in my raised plot, not sure what else (if anything) I'll put in there. I'm thinking for the summer, I'll put peppers where the lettuce was b/c it will be too hot for lettuce and see if the peas last, from what I've read, they should. I'm planning on herbs in containers on the deck and thinking of a strawberry pot on the deck for strawberries.
I'm in North Georgia, Zone 7A I believe.
Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Heather
Re: Mother Earth News garden planner and questions....
I've always read that you have to give your blueberry plants at least 3 years before they start producing fruit. I'm not sure why though...
You may want to take a more active role in pest management. Visit your garden every day or so & pick off cabbage worms or tomato hornworms. If you see aphids, either spray them with the hose or use insecticidal soap.
good luck this year! i wish you fewer uninvited "friends" to your garden!