PATRIOT GARDEN MEGAPOST - Please compile gardening tips here for your Patriot Garden
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ALso when you guys share your success, can you mention your climate or growing zone and how your soil is? My post is really long I know so Im adding this separately hoping it wont be missed. bc really, the soil and climate is everything.
If youre in the desert like me, and you do well, you deserve the farmer/gardener crown. Please desert gardeners, share, help other desert dwellers.
BC honestly, like my husband says about where he grew up in GA--if seeds fall to the ground there, they grow. Period.
Here--they need soil nutrients, amendments, back rubs, therapy, good conversation, music, and a cheerleading squad. Not to mention water, fertilizer, ph additives. And then they might grow, if they like you.
I feel ur pain. I once lived in Florida. Was too hot and the soil sucked. Mulch mulch mulch. Also stick with crops that like heat for summer growing: tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, squash, melons and such. You will only be able to grow cool weather stuff in fall or spring, otherwise they will bolt or just wither and die. If it doesn’t freeze too hard in winter, you might try a winter garden. Lettuce, spinach, cabbage, kale, broccoli, brussel sprouts, chard and like that. I am in a northern climate and can grow all the cool weather stuff. Completely gave up on melons, sweet potatoes and peppers. I do always grow tomatoes but end up trying to figure out what to do with all the unripe, green ones in the fall. One can only stand so much fried green tomatoes! I did discover that they make a tolerable substitute for green chiles (which I can’t grow).
Thanks Takeback, good advice.
One more thing--talk to me about mulch--please, ELI8 bc the word is used in so many general terms, literally please someone ELI5 even. Simple what it is and what it does; how it works and why. How it benefits my rock hard ground.
Im pretty sure if you saw my desert soil youd think FL was incredible! I almost want to post a pic. Im glad you pointed out the heat loving ones, I will do that. Its good to realize that there are actually things I can grow here that maybe some climates cant as well--thats a good reminder. Yes, the lettuce does great here in winter, past 85 degrees and they bolt, but winter never freezes enough here, on the coldest day here they will do fine.
I grew basil one year in warm weather, going to try again, so far this year its done poorly. I did use shade tho that year so Im working on getting that back up.
I talked about mulch in reply to your first comment.
Basil might want some fertilizer. Nitrogen.