Well, after viewing everybody elses great gardens I went and took some photos of mine. I started it about 1.5 months ago and things seem to be coming up, better then any other year. As a kid I used to grow, or try too, but I lived in a real 'ghetto' industrial area and the soil was horrid. When I moved here into native american housing, the soil was somewhat better, but really clayey. This year since I'm older I replaced the majority of the soil and things seem to be doing well. Unfortunatly they don't get alot of sun because of the tree in my yard, it's huge. I made all the fence/dividers out of old bricks I found in the forest and old wood. Tomatos, potatos, and chives: Flowers and two tomato plants: Bean plant experiment 1: Beat plant experiment 2:
Nice pics...I like seeing other people's gardens. Your stuff looks good,coming along nicely. Good luck with it..
Here's our garden, with my dd Sage. (I call this one, "Joy in the Garden" because the baby was so joyful, she was actually OFF the ground, while running in the garden.)
Thank you. These were from last year. It has been so dry this season. I'll get some pics of my garden this time soon.
Hm, bugs seem to be eating the leaves on my beans and potatos. What can I use to keep them off, other then harsh chemicals?
The manual method works sometimes. Take them off by hand and throw them away. If you want to be expensive and fancy, you can buy predator bugs and release them in the garden. Lady bugs and mantases and such. The simplest way that seems to work is to buy or grow some really hot peppers. Cayennes or habenelleros (spelling) or some such, boil it down to a paste, mix with water, adn spray onto the plants. Haven't tried this myself. But people I trust have said it works.
I have been using insecticidal soap (organic) this year. It is a fatty acid soap spray, from Safer, which works pretty well. If that doesn't work, I go to natural pyrethrins, (not the artificial, it isn't organic) and then finally Rotenone, which is nasty, but still organic.
Update to my garden: The tomato plants are huge! My potato pants are also doing extremly well. My chives aren't really doing much. Theres a couple that have come up, but haven't grown in weeks. Out of the 15+ bean plants I planted, 3 survived. The rest all broke from the amount of heavy rain that fell during one week, and my neighbour emptying her stupid kiddie pool, which also collapsed part of my already rotting shed. Next year I'll try again with more things, and replace the soil in some areas. It's like desert soil it's so dry due to the 40C weather. One question: I have a composter. It's made out of an old wooden box and does the job really well. The lid was left open for two days during some really severe rain fall, and it's now really really wet. Before that, though, the compost was perfect. Anyway, now that it's too wet, I'm wondering how can I dry it out to a adaquate level? Simply leave the lid open and let the 40 Celcius weather dry it? Mix in grass clippings, leave it closed?
