Well. This year was a total bust. Between it being my very 1st year growing in the ground / sfg'ing.. and the horrible summer we had. I barely had a harvest. My garden looked like a "wild jungle" vs any form a garden. We only had a handful of sunny days and only got to +30 a few times all summer long. I harvested a small bowl full off golfball sized tomatoes, a few cuc's and some carrots that were the size of my pinky finger.
Some things I learned from this year of gardening is...
- Tomatoes take over - grow them in pots. My tomato plants were over 6 feet high, exept I couldn't stake them so the were flopped over covering EVERYTHING else.
-Carrots must be in front. Other plants will shadow them.. no matter what they are.
-1-2 lettuce per square. Not 4.
-Too many kinds of lettuce. Just grow what you will use often.
-1 cucumber plant per square. takes over. Best in a pot as it vines.
- Keep peas away from cuc's and tomatoes. Again get all caught up in eachother
- No spinach. Unless baby small bush type spinach exists.
- Don't grow things you won't use. Waste of money & time & space.
Also, I will not be growing from seed this year ( well only ground things like peas,carrots, lettuce ) Tomatoes, onions, cuc's are all such a pain to grow from seed in my house and cost so much more money.
Ie. 1 5 inch plant at beggining of june ~3$ at local supermarket/box store. Already is grown, is past delicate seedinling stage & can be revived if a little sick looking. Total cost of plant = 3$.
OR seed = 3.99$ a package. 20$ for seedling house. 10$ seedling fertilizer. 10$ for electricity for light being on 20h a day. Time and energy watching seedlings. Trying to time when to start seedlings and time they can be planted. And then they end up dying as soon as transplanted because they were too tiny.
Anyways. Thats my summary. I have no pictures because it was a total mess from july on anyways. All you can do is learn from your mistakes.
I DID LOVE rescuing things. Rescuing vegi plants and flower plants from the evil boxed stores. Will do more of that this year.
