Our zone 7A Kentucky garden as summer is coming to a close. Let’s chat about how it’s going and what big plans lay in store in the future!
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Gardening has not been easy for us, but we can say proudly that we’re getting better and things are improving. This year we set a goal to plant something in all the raised beds and unfortunately that just didn’t happen. One of our struggles has been prioritizing the procurement of dirt ($$) as well as the daily fight to keeps weeds and grasses from reclaiming what was once a horse pasture. It’s a lot of work but the reward of picking your own vegetables is well worth it in my opinion.
That’s not to say we didn’t have some success this year. Our cucumbers did great, we’ve had lots of heatless jalepenos, a few okra, and a whole jumble of cherry tomatoes.
Speaking of tomatoes, next year we’re going to change up our plan for supporting our tomato plants. We’ve tried the bamboo cage, which didn’t do great, and this year we tried to stake them up, which just left everything in a huge pile and didn’t really work out. Next year we’re going to build a trellis system and use string to support the plants. We’ll be focusing on fewer tomato plants per bed to help with spacing while also adding some onions as companion plants. I’m really excited to get this underway.
We plan on adding a few more cattle panel trellises to the beds and maybe even add more raised beds if we can get what already have under control (fingers crossed). Thanks for coming on this journey with us! If you want to see more be sure to subscribe. See y’all soon!
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5 Comments
My advice is to get the topsoil and NOT THE COMPOST from the soil supply places. The "compost" is very woody and will take all the nitrogen from the plants. It's a disaster. I went to buy soil in a bag last week and you could feel all the wood in all the bags from the outside so I didn't buy anything.
Nothing will discourage you more than that!!!
I love that name for a rabbit! Too funny. I can see it though. They are shapped a little like a meatball 😂
good chat y'all.
Don't be so hard on yourselves!! A tomato bush jungle is so much better than no tomatoes. Many are using sticks, wood and all kinds of filler in the bottom of their raised garden beds. The idea is that the fill material decomposes over time and turns to dirt all the while fertilizing the beds as it breaks down. Cattle panels work great in the garden for everything from tomatoes to cucumbers and everything in between. If you have any cattle farming neighbors, they may gladly allow you to bring home some of the manure from their barn or other loafing area used by the cattle. I use a few whiskey half barrels as planters and hope to expand more next year. Like you I have big plans for next year!! Thanks for sharing and stay safe!!!
spread your tomatoes out where they have room to grow