August has been hot as hell and zero rain. I water most of this every day. Tomatoes are finally lightly blushing and some I took just to save them from the squirrels. I have been taking 6-12 cucumbers every 2 day for about 2 weeks and they’re still coming. I’ve planted new carrots lettuce and radishes. I also put in some beets but I think the area was too shady.
Notes on the set up
Garden is 4, 4x4x2 transport crates lined with landscape paper to slow the drainage slightly. I have used bagged potting soil in bulk triple mix compost and natural pine mulch.
I fertilize weekly with liquid tomato fertilizer
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Front garden of bags of cherry tomatoes, 2 cucumbers, Roma tomatoes, 3 watermelon, 3 potato plants.
Back garden:
Raised bed: Kiwi berry, Blueberry
Rhubarb
Side back: raspberry
Free pots – 4 watermelon
Next year :
Focus on which variety of tomato’s we use most grow 2 very strong seedlings of each – not a million just to kill them hardening off
Pick 3 cucumber types and do the same. I have way too many cucumbers and some plants are quite weak
Add 4 beds. Some designated root crop bins
Strawberries will be their own bed growing forward – so they have declared
I love growing cabbage. I hate growing Brussels sprouts. What is eating you man!!! Also both require much more room than my brain could visualize. They are going in bags next year
Also learning I want to focus more on fruit and less on veg. I will invest in more blueberry plants as well as move to fig trees for my front garden. The sun and heat would support them better than the cucumbers I did (and did not need at all)
I will not do potatoes again although harvesting from the bags is fun. It does not give enough to make it worth the effort at this time
The marigolds I planted in the grow bags have tried to choke out all the plants they are with. I will not do that again.
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