[–] DeliciousOnions ago
Everything died after getting rained on relentlessly and never being able to dry out. The peppers and zucchini gave me a couple of fruit, but not nearly as much as they could have.
Note to self: don't plant anything under a walnut tree.
Started out okay but I ran out of steam after breaking up with my girlfriend and let everything go for a while too long. Actually lucked out with rain this year and things didn't require constant attention like last year, but still lost most of the beans, carrots, radishes and lettuce I had going. Last year I set up a drip system but never got around to it this year, and the effects were obvious. Those fuckers sure love that water.
There have been a couple nice peppers and tomatoes I was able to catch at the right time, and my herbs (mostly peppermint) are always happy anyway it seems like. So could be worse but overall, one of the weakest years yet for the garden. My blackberries never even showed up, fags.
Getting some trees taken out this month though which should make for a whole different ballgame next year. May try a couple hens again next year too. Wish I had the room for some bees.
[–] Hand_of_Node ago
Limited space after dumping the nursery property, but have some hot peppers that seem to be not only surviving, but might even produce a few. Turns out tomatillo seeds go right though the worm bin and remain viable, so ended up with a number of those. Ones I've picked so far are way better than the store-bought version.
My tomatoes were fucked. Don't know why. My peppers did awesome better than ever before, my chili's as always did great. Cucumbers did well but they all came out bitter and all the vines just died a week ago. Squash was squashed by bugs. Asparagus actually produced some stalks this first year but I let them be. Herb as always did well but I think I trimmed my thyme back to far and killed it.
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[–] SerialChiller 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Zone 9B. All organic, no pesticides. Occasional spray of H2O2 for mildew. Mostly growing in a 50 ft long x 2 ft wide raised bed, intensive/square-foot method, with a fence/trellis along one edge. Plus pumpkins grown under a small cluster of fruit trees that are heavily mulched in pine wood-chips.
All this sounds like a shit ton of stuff, but it's fucking amazing how little it takes to plant this stuff. Most of it is waiting and keeping them watered.
For fall, I started Kales (lacinato, scotch, portugeuse, russian), broccoli, kohlrabi, cauliflower, lettuces, spinach, amaranth, beets, radishes, and red cabbage. Everything started well but some faggot critter is eating my seedlings so I have lost a bunch of them already and have to start new seeds (or go buy some plant starts).
[–] SerialChiller ago (edited ago)
We had daytime temps in the 95-102 range in july and august, with no rain and hot nights. I am not an expert, but I have been told that tomato tend to not produce flowers when nighttime temps stay above 70. No flowers means no pollination and no fruit. And my observation seems to support that theory. When I lived for some time in the tropics, tomatoes used to do better in winters there, maybe for the same reason.
Temps started getting lower in late August and the flowers came back, and I now have a decent set of fruit happening - although it is a race to harvest them before squirrels/mice/birds take a bite out of them.
[–] My_Name_is_Not_Sure ago
Tomatoes were rockstar. Jalapeños and green peppers were as well. I can’t seem to keep squash bugs out of my zucchini’s. Any advice on the squash bugs?