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Vegetable Garden
6/30/04 @ 1:47 PM
Who's got one ? what are you growing ? and how's it coming along? Mine consists of sweet corn , cabbage , brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli ,cucumbers, zucchini, peas, tomatoes , peppers , acorn squash, pumpkins, and assorted spices. The cold wet weather hasn't been very conducive to good growth so far for me. But with warmer weather in the forecast things should turn out. I hope those of you growing fair better.
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Onions are starting to bulb. I have some that are almost ping-pong ball size 4 inches up on the neck. That’s not good for storage, but it’s gonna be some massive onions. I still have not seen any bumblebees for pollinating, big bees, and non-pollinators.
Thank you.
So I kind of cheat a little bit, my local Community has a yard waste recycling center, where it actually turns into very good compost. So what I typically do is at the end of each growing season I take a couple 55 gallon garbage bins fill about halfway a little more with the compost, empty the remaining soil that I have in my my containers that I grew in, separated all the old roots and everything so that it's clean. add a couple bages of black kow manure, and just some generic fertilizer for vegetables, stir it all up and leave it set over the winter time, then come spring blend it up again, and use it. And if I happen to run out, I go to local hardware store, pick up some gardening soil that's on sale.
So I kind of cheat a little bit, my local Community has a yard waste recycling center, where it actually turns into very good compost. So what I typically do is at the end of each growing season I take a couple 55 gallon garbage bins fill about halfway a little more with the compost, empty the remaining soil that I have in my my containers that I grew in, separated all the old roots and everything so that it's clean. add a couple bages of black kow manure, and just some generic fertilizer for vegetables, stir it all up and leave it set over the winter time, then come spring blend it up again, and use it. And if I happen to run out, I go to local hardware store, pick up some gardening soil that's on sale.
Had an issue with some kind of bug eating the carrot top. So that they are no more. Receded the garden twice. I’m not gonna do it again. It’s screened off and netted so I know it has to be a bug. They got a few in the buckets as well, which are 30 feet away and obviously a couple feet above the ground.
Social media and forums are notorious for only showing the positive sides of life, so here are my negatives thus far -
Onions. My success rate of transferring my onion plants outdoors was terrible. To the point that I didn't want to bother weeding the section for a couple onions so I just tilled it under. Then I wasn't able to find any onion sets at fleet farm or the hmong market, so I'm just not growing them this year and will get whatever I need from the neighbor.
Garlic. Arguably one of the easiest plants to grow. Just leave them and forget them. Yet I somehow managed to overthink it and I believe I put too thick of a layer of mulch and then a layer of compost on top of that. It took them forever to pop through the compost and just don't seem to be growing as well as normal. Who knows, maybe they'll rebound by end of summer but right now they are way behind.
Sweet potatoes. My favorite to grow and I was eager to get them out. We had a night near freezing where I covered tomatoes but not the sweet potatoes. They are just finally starting to recover from that. The plants that I waited to plant until about a week and a half ago are doing far better.
Sweet corn. I had literally 3 of the seeds sprout out of three ~30 foot rows. Turns out my seeds were from 2020 (time sure flies) and they were just old. My latest planting just popped through yesterday with nearly 100% germination rate.
Everything else is going pretty smoothly, but gardening sure isn't ever a guarantee no matter how long you've been doing it. All part of the fun.
Onions. My success rate of transferring my onion plants outdoors was terrible. To the point that I didn't want to bother weeding the section for a couple onions so I just tilled it under. Then I wasn't able to find any onion sets at fleet farm or the hmong market, so I'm just not growing them this year and will get whatever I need from the neighbor.
Garlic. Arguably one of the easiest plants to grow. Just leave them and forget them. Yet I somehow managed to overthink it and I believe I put too thick of a layer of mulch and then a layer of compost on top of that. It took them forever to pop through the compost and just don't seem to be growing as well as normal. Who knows, maybe they'll rebound by end of summer but right now they are way behind.
Sweet potatoes. My favorite to grow and I was eager to get them out. We had a night near freezing where I covered tomatoes but not the sweet potatoes. They are just finally starting to recover from that. The plants that I waited to plant until about a week and a half ago are doing far better.
Sweet corn. I had literally 3 of the seeds sprout out of three ~30 foot rows. Turns out my seeds were from 2020 (time sure flies) and they were just old. My latest planting just popped through yesterday with nearly 100% germination rate.
Everything else is going pretty smoothly, but gardening sure isn't ever a guarantee no matter how long you've been doing it. All part of the fun.
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