Gardening & Landscaping
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Anyone in the PNW?
I know we have different garden challenges/opportunities out here and I'd love to hear your experiences.
Particularly if you've done edible gardening.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
Re: Anyone in the PNW?
I'm in Seattle.
Last year was horrible year for my veggie garden. It didn't get hot enough, so my tomatoes didn't produce. The year before was way better though.
I've had good luck with herbs, lettuces, strawberries, cherries, apples, plums, spinach, arugula, carrots, radishes and kohlrabi.
Peas and beans also produced very nicely (especially Oregon Giant and Sugar Ann).
Cabbage, brocolli and Kale did nicely.
Got absolutely bombarded with cherry tomatoes (less days needed to mature than regular tomatoes) and cucumbers. I couldn't give them away fast enough. And that was AFTER canning about 40 jars.
I gave up on eggplant (especially Black Beauty, but I am gonna try with a different variety that matures 15 days earlier).
Peppers were kinda hit and miss. Bell peppers didn't mature, because it got too cold at the beginning of September. However, smaller peppers, such as jalapenos and chilles did nicely (I used Topsy Turvy for peppers and moved them a lot).
I also got couple of 3 year old blueberry plants at Blueberry Farm up in Everett and they produced nicely (maybe 4 lbs).
Also had excellent luck with mushrooms (portobellos).
I'm also in Seattle. Last year was my first time trying to grow anything in the PNW. Our lettuce and parsley plants were ginormous.
Others that were successful were our chives and cilantro.
Our pepper plant was a bust.
Our strawberry plants produced a little. 1/2 through the summer we ended up getting more strawberry plants and using a topsy turvy and those plants produced a lot more.
We also had a topsy turvy with cherry tomatoes and that thing went crazy. We had it hanging from a rod on the top of the fence, and by late summer we had to tie up the bottoms because it was hitting the ground.
Yeah, last year was our first year at veggies, so I'm not sure what was a bust because of the weather and what I screwed up on.
Lettuce, basil, swiss chard and kale did well from seed.
Broccoli, carrots, radishes peas, chives and beets did not do well from seed. Don't know where I'm going wrong.
The smaller eggplant starts - Oriental Long and Thai Green were phenomenal, the round Italian kind I think gave us one kinda puny fruit.
Broccoli, strawberries and beets did okay from starts, but not knockout.
The cucumber and tomato starts just sat there and then took off at the last minute. So we got some harvest, but not great.
Peppers, bell and hot, were a total bust.
The leeks and chard overwintered without a cover except during one deep freeze, but it was a pretty mild winter.
I'm waiting to see if the artichoke comes back, if not I'll just have to admit there is no really sunny spot in my yard. Stupid PNW trees.
I'm thinking about making some hoop houses and also doing more from seed this year. I think I'll stick to seeds that can be sown directly outdoors.
"The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab
Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
Last year was my first year gardening in the PNW (Seattle area); heck, it was my first year gardening. I'm lucky enough to have a yard that primarily gets full sun during the growing season.
None of my herbs planted from seed survived. My sage, chives and thymes plants from the nursery thrived. My potted tarragon seems to hate the wet weather and is barely hanging in there. A lemon verbena plant (annual in this hardiness zone) took off in the warm weather. My yard has an amazing lavender plant that is beyond happy; I snipped and dried the buds to make lavender sugar, which is great in iced tea and homemade ice cream.
Veggies planted from seed. Lettuce, snap peas, and green onions thrived. My carrots and beets had great leaves but barely any roots- I'm thinking it was too much nitrogen, but I'm not sure if I think it's worth testing my theory this year. My buttenut squash was planted too late, required hand pollination, and the squash weren't anywhere near mature when the first frost hit, so I'll try starts this year. And we'll see if the dwarf fig tree survived the winter as I didn't do anything to protect it.