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Gardener Updates??
Ladies that planted--can you give us an update on your growth?
Successes: Sugar Snaps (over in the spring but hoping to get a fall crop growing too), Zinnias, Lettuces (again done for the summer, but hopeful we'll have some fall lettuces), Basil, Cukes, and we think watermelon.
Undecided: Tomatoes, Peppers, Sunflowers, Cantaloupe (Tomatoes and Peppers have yet to produce a fruit we could eat, the first 3 plantings of sunflowers kept getting eaten by our friendly bunnies, deer, racoon, etc etc, so I'm on my fourth planting and so far, so good and our cantaloupe seems to be doing well, except that we've yet to see a melon. Lots of fertilized flowers at this point, but no melon's. Grrr
Failures: Broccoli, all my other herbs, all my other seed flowers
Re: Gardener Updates??
I have been MIA but the only thing we planted was watermelons. We have had 3 melons start and then they turn black on the end and rot. IDK what we are doing wrong. It makes me angry b.c I LOVE watermelons. Anyone have any insight??
My flowers are gorgeous though! Must update!
Dang! this was going to be my post of the day.
j/k
DH built my 4x4 raised bed this weekend. I bought the stuff to fill it today. I need to mix my soil up and fill it and then I plan to plant oregano, sage, petunias, spinach, sugar snap peas, broccoli and carrots. Wish me luck!
I don't really have a garden, but I'm going to play anyway
Success: Most of the bulbs in the backyard. Probably 75% came up and bloomed!
Undecided: Bulbs in the front came up but didn't flower. We are thinking they didn't get enough water
Failure: Herbs. I got this vase with holes on the side with seed packets. I followed the directions but no luck. Oh well!
Disclaimer: I bought plants for everything besides sugar snap peas, lettuce, & spinach. Maybe it's cheating, but I've been really happy w/ the cost (for most plants it was $1.50/4 from the farmer's market!) & results and will likely do it again next year.
Successes: Cucumbers, cherry & grape tomatoes.
Undecided: I think our regular tomatoes will be good. There are a bunch on the vines but they are all still green so we'll have to see if they make them to being red. I keep thinking "I think they'll be ready next week!", but that's been for the last 3 weeks. Also, I did lettuce in the spring but let it grow too long into the summer and it wilted b/f I harvested. I think it was good, though, I'll just should have known better to get it out.
Failures: Squash & zucchini. 8 plants, zero fruit! Peppers - I think I need to use pesticide next year, I had 4 bell pepper plants and got nothing but they look kind of rough w/ being chewed on. I planted my jalepenos too close to my cucumbers and all but one got choked out. I got one jalepeno from the surviving plant. Sugar snap peas - I tried to go w/out a trellis & didn't thin them out so I have nothing to blame but myself, I think they just choked each other out. Also, I think I got them into the ground too late.
Last weekend I got a trellis set up and planted sugar snap peas for the fall and started some spinach too. In 2 weeks I'll add more spinach, lettuce, and some broccoli (plants). It's been a little bit of a disappointment how many garden flops I've had, but I feel like I've learned SO much from them and will hopefully be able to avoid some of them next year. We've been enjoying cucumber/cherry tomatoes nearly every day for a month, so that's been really awesome and totally made the effort worth it.