2011 Garden Thread

[syncroid]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

I like this look Dan. It must be sheer bliss on a hot summer night just reaching upwards and picking off a perfect grape.

Thanks Bill. Unfortunately, I have to fight the racoons, oppossums, squirrels, and birds to get any. I do like the look though.

[john70t]

I built two new modern-ish raised beds in the spring, and tested some ideas for making the others blend with them. Just tossing some wood around.
Not very efficient, spacewise, but looked good.


The raccoons and several groundhogs tore things up at the beginning, but they were finally chased off.
-Lost 14 heads of healthy lettuce, 3 spinach, half the zuchinni and cukes, basil down to the roots, and several flowering plants before they finally gave up.
-Apparently an outside dog during the day, two cat brothers at night, plus a ticked off human wasn't enough to deter them.
-Cherry tree was eaten by worms. No yield there. The Serviceberry tree fruit in front was delicious(tastes like blueberrys).

Things are back to ok at the end of this summer, and I'm back to hacking paths with a machete.

[slodave]

Mine sucked this year. I was too involved with my guitar project and didn't amend the soil properly. Other than some huge radish early on, everything grew in miniature. Tomatoes starter off well, but some animal pretty much made off with them the night before I was to pick them...

Next year!

[john70t]

Slodave, there's only last year's garden and next year's.
It never, never, ever turns out the way planned.

This covers most of it:
Yellowish pale lower leaves and slow growth=not enough nitrogen fertilizer in early spring.
Growing sideways=not enough sun
Growing tall and stringy=not enough space, sun, other.
Droopy leaves midday=more water.
Browning leaf tips=too much sun, more water, nutrient overload/underload, other.
Brown spotting=nutrient overload/underload, bugs, other.
White film=powdery mildew from rotten wet ground.