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My latest attempt was with the Chia set (yeah, yeah, yeah, but it came across well and has been reviewed well
I'm thinking of this next: The AeroGarden. Anyone tried this? It's a pretty big cash outlay, but it looks like it solves the main problems I seem to have (light and food - just the little things that these danged herbs seem to demand and I seem to have so much trouble providing :P ).
It would probably take me very many years to recoup the investment if everything works advertised, but that would be okay with me if it would, um, work as advertised.
Any suggestions?
It's a 16' by 6' plot, partial sun, in the Mid Atlantic. I usually do 'maters, cuces, green beans, etc.
If you've been taking care of the soil for 8 years, it's probably a nice consistency now. Maybe work in a little fetilizer to boost nutrient levels?
Might also want to take a sample to your cooperative extension office and have them do an analysis for you and see if you're lacking anything specific.
Yeah, I visited Monticello a couple of years ago and also checked out the gardens there. The green beans were in season. It was a HOT day in August, too hot!
The top layer is good, but the soil is all clay underneath. You dig more than 4" and that's all you get.
I've had great years but the last couple were only so-so. Of course we only got rain late, and then it was too much of it. :sick:
-juice
Maybe you could even use the clay underneath tocreate sort of an underground "pot" to help hold moisture in the bed. Sort of scoop out the clay deeper in the center and leave a "lip" around the edge to keep the water around the roots of your plants. I know that leveling out my tiers made a HUGE difference in runoff. The downhill plants were always better watered and larger than those uphill.
I'll have to cogitate on that one some more :shades:
We have a short ha-ha in our front yard. Never get cows in the yard either (although the llama's across the street showed up once).
* whitetail deer
* fox
* coyote (!)
* tons of squirrels
* chip munks
* rats
That's just off the top of my head.
We get a few mule deer browsing the rose bushes on their way to the neighbor's pond. But we have no big trees in our yard so we have few squirrels visiting and no chipmunks show up to eat my Subaru wiring (hopefully!).
But when you have rat snakes your rodent problems are minimized :P
So I planted a palm.
It's actually our second outdoor palm - the other survived last winter ok and is looking good. This one will be more marginal but who knows. There are about a dozen around town that we know of, including two at one of the car dealers. :shades:
Our microclime falls in zone 7.
Putting on weed killer, and even everything-killer, just makes somewhat brown and seems to anger it.
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Grows so fast, too, you gotta kick the shoots over else it'll take over the whole yard.
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I just planted my garden this weekend. I'm pretty proud of myself, too. Used home-made compost, plus some hummus and peat moss I had left over. Laid down the plants, mulched the area, put up cages, a small fence, and even a soaker hose and an automatic timer to water the whole thing. :shades:
I'm a minimalist (in effort, at least). Here's my backyard. The bamboo keeps wanting to appear entwined in those bushes up against the house.
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How does that saying go - a weed is a plant in the wrong place?
Spike
one of our palms
I'd snap a photo of the switchgrass but I can't find it at the moment. :shades:
However, she has several specimens of a Utah variety warming up in the bull pen (aka, our living room) to try next.
Spike didn't make it, btw. :sick:
I set it up to water automatically each morning, too. :shades:
Some would say that you're farming, not gardening.
I agree with that. However I have all my trees and garden patches on automatic sprinklers or drip systems. No one to water the 2 weeks in Hawaii. All were doing well on return in spite of 100 degree weather while we were gone. I will take some pics of the tomatoes in the straw bales. I think that is a good way to go. We have tomatoes about inch and a half in diameter now. I think those are Celebrity.
And, I can hardly believe it, but Spike lives.
Winter before last when we had the coldest winter on record for our area most of the bouganvilla died back to the ground. When it got warm they came back. Our 30 year old Ficus tree was not so lucky. It was a beautiful big tree. This winter was warmer though longer with hot spells.
The new crop traditionally gets harvested on July 4 and the tops are dying back nicely so I think we'll make the transition ok. :shades:
To make matters worse, I'll be out of town for 3 weeks in July. I hope my automatic watering works while I'm gone!
So far I've had one tomato and half a dozen or so string beans, so my garden hasn't really gotten started yet.
We've had too much rain, the ground is soggy. Bring on the sun!
Here is this morning's harvest:
This set of bales has all the ingredients for great pasta. Zucchini, basil and tomatoes. The tall tomato vine is over 6 foot and no sets yet. It is supposed to be Super Beefsteak tomatoes.
I'm back from vacay, but the crop still isn't doing much better. The ground is still soggy. Funny thing is I usually have the opposite problem.
I may build a raised bed for next year.
Did you plant those right in the hay bale? That's hilarious. Must drain real well?
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Update: my green beans are actually doing well. I was out for 3 weeks so some overripened, but I filled up a small basket.
I have 2 good cucumber plants, my best crop last year, so let's see if those take off.