How's Your Garden Growing?
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Man I wish I were good at gardening. Every time I have tried it has been a disaster, and only after significant effort and expense.
Don't feel alone. I usually grow a great garden. Last year I started planting and taking care of 2 gardens; mine and then one at my son's house. They both did great. Then for some unknown reason, this year both gardens had to be replanted and neither produced as good as last year. That's with fertilizer, watering and weeding. I also started having problems with my rose bushes about 2 years ago. They burst out in a glorious array of blooms and then hardly nothing for the rest of the summer. That's with pruning, rose food, aphid/pest spray and watering. I think it has to do with the Chem Trails. Once we get our world back to a certain stage of normalcy, then try planting a garden. I'll bet you it will work well.
Some things in our garden are OK, and others are small or won't grow. Chard has been in dicot mode for a month. Dinky carrots, small peppers. I suspect corporate sabotage of seeds, fertilizers and the garbage they have been spraying on us from jets. Hoop houses might help with the latter.
I'm so disgusted with how my gardens turned out that I may not even plant any next year. Last year I had a beautiful yield of squash, zucchini and okra, that this year, my okra didn't really make even after resetting it 3 times, I am finally getting squash and my zucchini is a long time in waiting.
I was surprised at how easy cantaloupes are (Texas).
Get a bag of potting soil ---- dump it in a pile on the ground ---- put in seeds ---- keep soil damp.
It's a vine that will take off across the yard.
I got the seeds out of a grocery store cantaloupe.
You did good.
The best tasting cantaloupe I ever ate was this one:
https://victoryseeds.com/products/charentais-cantaloupe
They are small but so sweet and fragrant.
My acorn squash came up this year and got to the point where the plant is about the size of a softball. They reached that point two months ago. Today they still look perfectly healthy but they havent grown a bit since. No vines, no flowers, no fruit, just a seedling. It is weird as hell. I do my own composting and soil testing and so far everything seems perfect. Just no growth.
I have no advice to give you. I have had that problem with cantaloupe and couldn't figure it out then also.
I love the mellow flesh of acorn squash though.
This year I planted 7 zucchini plants. The squash borers have gotten two so far, but I've had massive return off all them. With my very first harvest I experimented with flash freezing round cuts of zucchini separately on parchment paper & then vacuum sealing portions, which I later breaded/battered and cooked while still frozen.
Wow! They cooked up so well I was amazed. I honestly couldn't tell the difference from fresh fried zucchini. I would never be able to get that same result with frozen, then thawed zukes.
I have the best soil in the world - black Nebraska soil.
I jsut saw a video about flash freezing. I have 4 squash/zuke plants and they are going gangbusters. Of course we have to preen them for borer eggs and nymphs. I just slice mine lengthwise a few times and vacuum seal them and freeze.
Tomatoes are doing great but production is dropping. Beans, lettuce, cukes, etc all doing OK to well.
First year gardening in NC. Raised beds.
Just packed 7 quarts of pickles today, probably have another dozen in a few days.
This year I've had a great garden. Last week I finished planting my fall crop just before the heat wave hit, so far it all seems okay.
As far as my spiritual crop, well we're working on that too.
My strawberries yielded hundreds...then all of the sudden, I had none. ?!?!
We did get attacked by Japanese beetles right before they stopped yielding. Maybe the beetles ate all the fruit-bearing parts of the strawberries. But, I bought one of those beetle traps, so the beetles left. My strawberries are still barren 3 weeks later.
Might it be because you have June bearing berries?
They go gang busters...then nothing til next year.
Seems logical, except I had berries into August last year. I got tired of picking them. 😃