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Anyone grow a 'legal' garden this year?

CharlesTheHammer

CharlesTheHammer

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I grew a garden with my roommate for the 1st time in many years. We grew tomatoes(exotic, huh?), zucchini, and many watermelon plants of 2 varieties. The tomatoes did OK, the zucchini(4 plants) were almost all killed by Stem Borers, and our watermelons were all way too small. So we'll have to figure out what we did wrong and adapt for next year's garden.....:\

Did you have better luck?
 
the county i live in provides something like 70% of n.americas raspberries, and our grow season was a hauled. we had a very mild winter and everything tried to fruit early, plus extra bugs...
it was disastrous for most of the larger berry farms.

but, lots of out-door med growers are getting a nice last run of sun.
its all gonna be purple but hey.
 
raspberries were out of control; 1kg harvest biweekly and they grew over the soil meant for the tomatoes. neighbour grew out a bunch of cucumbers, so there was a lot of that
 
This was my first year planting a real garden. I made some mistakes, mainly having too small of a plot with too many plants, but over I harvested a great deal of food. I had a bunch of tomatoes (regular, cherry, roma), leaf lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, eggplant, zucchini, jalapeno, thai chile, habanero, green pepper, brussel sprouts, and watermelon. Everything turned out great, besides my cucumbers and green peppers (shaded by my two monster zucchini plants). I still have to pick tomatoes and brussel sprouts as well as some peppers. I yielded about 7 or 8 huge watermelons.

It was all organic too, no pesticides or artificial fertilizer. I tilled one ton of compost into the ground, the reason I think everything grew tremendous in size. Next year I have to expand my garden at least x2 and create uniform rows, allowing for adequate space in between plants. Mine was as thick as a jungle, I had so many, which unfortunately limited my yields and made it a pain in the ass to weed and pick my veggies. I'm definitely having a garden next year. It's such a great hobby!
 
I love gardening! Even though you didn't do as well as you hoped, I bet you learned a lot and had fun. I like this forum: http://forums.seedsavers.org/index.php VERY helpful.

I grew some eggplant, 3 kinds of tomato, leeks, red Russian kale, and some others. I hardly tended to it at all but it still yielded some. It was too bloody hot to be outside last summer.
 
McTwist said:
This was my first year planting a real garden. I made some mistakes, mainly having too small of a plot with too many plants, but over I harvested a great deal of food. I had a bunch of tomatoes (regular, cherry, roma), leaf lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, eggplant, zucchini, jalapeno, thai chile, habanero, green pepper, brussel sprouts, and watermelon. Everything turned out great, besides my cucumbers and green peppers (shaded by my two monster zucchini plants). I still have to pick tomatoes and brussel sprouts as well as some peppers. I yielded about 7 or 8 huge watermelons.

It was all organic too, no pesticides or artificial fertilizer. I tilled one ton of compost into the ground, the reason I think everything grew tremendous in size. Next year I have to expand my garden at least x2 and create uniform rows, allowing for adequate space in between plants. Mine was as thick as a jungle, I had so many, which unfortunately limited my yields and made it a pain in the ass to weed and pick my veggies. I'm definitely having a garden next year. It's such a great hobby!
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Yeah, our rototiller had transmission problems, and we had to plant in a new spot which was covered with grass before, so I just dug holes to plant everything in, threw out half the clay soil, mixed in 1/2 miracle grow garden soil and planted in the holes I dug. The holes were like 10" wide x 12" deep, but I think that didnt give the plants enough room for the roots to spread out, so our watermelons were really small(I guess thats the reason).


You didnt have ANY problems with stem borers in your zucchini? I was told 2 months after I plated it that I might have that problem, but it was too late then, and apparently around here you are almost assured of getting stem borers if you dont treat the squash, pumpkins or zucchini from the get go.
 
we done really well with all our plants except tomatoes, the amount of rain and lack of sunshine made for a total of none, plums also done really badly this year everything else though was great specially my potatoes and turnip[ leeks and carrots. Strawberries did not do as well as last year though but our courgettes did great as well as butternut squash. we actually got about 40 courgettes from each plant. spinach went like wildfire and I am still getting plenty just now.
 
Yeah, I did two this year actually: a big one at my Grandmother's place, and a little one on my balcony. I grew herbs, lettuce, tomatoes and strawberries at my place, all with good yields as I'm south facing and a neurotic waterer. Did potatoes, kale, beets, peas, carrots, string beans, kohlrabi, swiss chard and I think possibly something else at Grandma's. That garden didn't do too well, due to an infestation of cutworms early in the season that wiped out a lot of the young plants. Still, did well enough-- I spent all day yesterday juicing my leftover beets and carrots, and I have potatoes to last through the winter and any possible apocalypse.

:)
 
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