Community Garden – Lessons Learned Y1 (2010)
While I continue to track down the pictures from Year 2 community garden, and it hangs in my draft posts, I wanted to share my lessons learned from the first year that I posted on Facebook in 2010. Since not everyone I know is on Facebook, and the Notes section is not well advertised on my wall for those who are friends with me, I am re-using, word for word, so that it can be read it context of a first time gardener.
Posted Sept. 4, 2010:
- Things will die if you don’t water them.Â
- Zucchini & Yellow squash plants are really small when you get them, but grow up to be huge. Give them plenty of space.
- Sowing carrot seeds really do require thinning them, otherwise your carrots turn out mutant like / stunted
- Cucumbers get this thing called “blite” that is really gross, and can spread to other plants – need to figure out how to prevent this
- Tomato plants grow up to be pretty tall — invest money in the tallest cages
- Onions & Garlic are kinda hard to grow — need to figure out what went wrong, perhaps it was the soil, or the failure to keep weeds at bay
- Miracle Grow really does work miracles — we should have started that from the beginning
- Deer will eat anything that won’t kill them that they can get to — invest in taller fences
- Leave enough space between yours and your neighbors plot; if their weeds grow over, they won’t strangle your plants.
- You have to keep replanting dill to have a continuous supply
- Weed block works really well — need to figure out how to utilize that more.
Overall success with tomatoes, zucchini, string beans, yellow squash, peppers (jalepeno & yellow bells), basil, thyme & oregano
Going to try to do better – onions, garlic, brussel sprouts, strawberries, mesclun, regular cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, and carrotsÂ
March 15, 2012
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Sheryl ·
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