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receptionitis15
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Mohawk, your plants look great! Is the first flower a pea?
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| Receptionist15- you could ditch the landscape fabric and cover the soil with sphagnum moss. It will help with water rentention and keep weeds out mostly. |
That's a great suggestion, water retention & weeds is the reason I have the landscape fabric there in the first place. I will definitely use it on the pots of herbs I planted for my mom for Mother's Day - it'll also look much nicer this way! Thanks so much!
Can the sphagnum moss stand up to getting soaked and then drying out repeatedly? In the vegetable containers, I left about 2 inches between soil and the top of the pot, and I water those pots by filling that space with water - that way I can water them deeply less often. |
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mohawk
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| Posted: May 21, 2012 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, the peas are soooo beautiful! This is our first time doing peas, and I am a fan. They taste amazing too!
Yes, the moss can endure the endless soak and dry out cycle. I actually line my hanging baskets with it like so...
P1100284 by akuhlrock, on Flickr
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Chiquita
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Location: Tejas
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| Posted: Jun 06, 2012 6:55 am Post subject: |
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Onions - enough to share. Tomatoes - if we don't eat more soon we will be giving away and/or stewing in order to freeze. Peppers - yum, kid loves them stuffed with a little cheese and thrown in the oven for a few. Zukes - have taken off despite getting in the ground late. Herbs - dill was eaten by worms that will be butterflies (it's why I plant it); parsley is successful and used whenever possible; tarragon is so large I must find something to do with it; sage is being harvested and dried.
All in all a successful early summer garden. Hopefully my enthusiasm continues as the weather gets hotter. I will have no shame in giving up come July. |
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greenbean
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Location: Saskatchewan
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Ate the first radishes this weekend! They are tasty, unlike last year's radishes that were really woody. All my seeds have come up. I thinned the zucchinni plants today - I hate doing that because it seems so wasteful, but the remaining plants will grow better for not being crowded.
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Chupacabra
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Location: Astoria, New York
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So my aforementioned volunteer tomato plant has a nice sized tomato growing! I'm 90% sure it is a purple heirloom variety from last year (but I forgot which one!) I've also got an early girl tomato growing from my library seedling swap plant. My two seed started tomato plants have failed completely but the hops are seriously out of control, each one grows an inch or two a day!
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arabella
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| Posted: Jun 26, 2012 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| we moved! now have space for a garden! going to do greens on the deck and then I have some space in the yard for more veggies. the space is very irregular-shaped tho so I'm not sure how I'm going to garden in it. It's a more natural looking area so square boxes might look a bit weird. Will have fun figuring it out. and I'm SO HAPPY to be able to grow things again! Just in time for a fall garden... |
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aliwa
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Location: Sweden
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How did your gardening go this year?
Mine was baaaad! One explanation might be that it was too much shade where we planted most of the things. Another and more probable explanation is that it rained on average 27 days per month this summer. I thought I was just imagining it being utterly depressing, but apparently I was right!
So the absolutelly only things that worked out where nasturtium and herbs (rosemary, oregano and thyme), but those things worked out really well! We had 20 tomato plants and got 3 actual tomates, but those rotted, a lot of chile (indoors, got maybe 5 chiles) and so on. So basically i wasted time and effort on something that really disappointed me! Oh, also salad that got way bitter.
Next time I'll just get some pretty flowers to cheer me up instead of the ever depressing vegetables.
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Chiquita
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| Posted: Dec 01, 2012 8:17 am Post subject: |
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LOTS of tomatoes early on and plenty of peppers, a few odd eggplants as well. That's all I could manage this year. (I've been spending a lot of my weekend with my parents helping care for my father.)
Fall garden - TONS of weeds but I went ahead and put seeds into one raised bed. Then I had to cover the bed and replant seeds (lettuce and spinach) twice because some squirrel kept digging in the dirt and disrupted the seeds. We finally have greens! They aren't big enough to harvest but it has also been unusually warm. Which means maybe all the late season tomatoes that are green might have a chance to turn. I heard spraying them with dish soap helps them ripen faster.
So not as good as previous years but I am determined and will get back on track. Taking time off in the next couple of weeks and plan on spending time weeding and planting some kale and Swiss chard. |
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