Anyone have a garden going this year?

We are new to gardening, just last few years since retirement. Learning as we go.
Will try to learn more on, Boost your plant growth, Thanks.

 

Know what you mean about gardening in the ground. We have some raised bed area, and so much easier to plant and care for.

 

Attempting to sprout some Moringa seeds, not sure if i should hold my breath for 2 year old seeds or not as I hear viability is short lived but I gave them a good soak in some seaweed extract mix.
Unfortunately while "unpapering" a few of them I managed to end up shelling them like peanuts
I'm hoping there's a chance in hell they pop as now I want to try roasting the seeds

 

Garden done for the year. Not a great harvest, once again wet spring, dry summer. Plan to work on compost, and ph test for the soil.

 

I still have some basil and oregano going in pots, but I've given up on trying to grow much in the ground here as the soil is either sand or rocky clay. I have a group of large potted geraniums that I dote on, the are huge and quite spectacular - the are on their fourth season since I over winter them in the garage for a head start in the spring. Tough year for hydrangeas with the heat and drought. Hibiscus did ok..

 

Are you near any trees?
This will fix you right up.



And if you find a particular patch of woodlands you like to rake, you could also amend the patch in the fall with ash, bone meal, some organic charcoal crushed from pea to rice sized granules, fish bits etc. and rake it all up in the fall

 

Good year with planting berries and asparagus. but vegetables, not so much. just too many things going on right now.

But getting ready for next year... building six 4'x12' raised beds that are 2' tall with 4' walkway between all of them. four beds already filled with tree rounds and limbs bottom half topped with compost from the goat barn.
hopefully next year will be productive. Also need to build some easy to put/remove greenhouse plastic for some of the beds

 

I need to build a large container using welded wire to collect the bedding from goat barn weekly. That way they will compost better through out winter. And I can use them in spring/summer in the vegetable/fruit/flower gardens.

 

Keep your old, cold coffee handy in case those stumps start sucking up all your nitrogen

 

I've just got too much shade to do any serious gardening, but I do have serious miles of compost from my yearly mountain of leaves and other debris. Summer is bitching hot, I have a hard enough time keeping the lawn alive. Yay Zoysia!!

 

I had a good gardening summer in southern Arizona. Got over 15 inches of rain, which is great. Ran drip irrigation for the dry times.

Good harvests of okra, tomatoes. four squash varieties, six pepper varieties, Native American pumpkins, sweet potatoes, tepary beans (a local dry bean), three melon varieties, basil, chard, and figs. I had a lower-than-normal grape harvest due to insect pests. My asparagus bed is still developing.

My only winter crops will be in my tiny greenhouse. Gardening helps to keep me sane during these unstable times, and greatly reduces the number of times I need to go to a grocery store.

 

Now, when everyone thinks Arizona, they think rocks, cactus and desert, not agriculture. Hopefully water is cheap - here it's pretty much liquid gold...

 

I managed to sprout and grow 3 small moringa saplings. Even after 2 days of soaking, the seeds they took a long time to sprout

 

Always a comfort knowing I live in one of the least likely regions to have to deal with urban scavengers in the event of social collapse

 

Time to prune the grape vines and clear out the rest of the dead plants from last summer. Another gardening season approaches in Arizona. I love the cycles of gardening.

 

Saving up some money to put in raised beds this year! Being in Florida has been quite a change for me and my gardening skills. I planted some herbs, tomatoes, peppers, and carrots in the fall. Carrots got over taken by weeds, peppers never grew, herbs look fantastic, and this was one of my best Roma harvests yet even though alot went to waste due to what looks like a hornworm getting in there.