a Swing and a Miss

[digitS']

Or, a failure to swing ...

What did you plan and fail to do with this year's garden?

I have been a little half-hearted about growing mung beans for winter sprouting. I guess, I should get more into sprouting before making a commitment for a couple of months growing something I have never even seen, as anything but a sprout! Or, learn to not think out loud so much.

A companion crop for the tomatoes: I want to plant oats early, set out the tomato transplants in their midst, pull the oats, and use them as mulch. Hey, I did it with squash one year! Really, it should work with any warm-season plants. Oats can grow at very cool temperatures. Grow my own mulch. Probably, the living oats would also provide service as a "nurse crop."

Timing. I really planned on doing this in 2015 but then realized at the last moment that my plan to plant both at the same time was wrong, wrong, wrong! What happened in 2016? I simply forgot ...

We all go off on the wrong foot, take chances on something new, make mistakes. What did you do wrong by omission?

Steve

 

[so lucky]

Was too stingy to pad an order to go with the Toscano kale I wanted, so didn't get any at all. (Wasn't going to pay $5 shipping on a half ounce of kale)
Next year.

 

[Smart Red]

Humph, how did I fail? Let me count the ways.

 

[digitS']

Remember, we all make mistakes. We all have other priorities which get in the way of plans.

I also have to plan and follow through on buying those mung bean seeds. (Would give me a reason for a Purcell Mountain Farms seed order !)

The reason for the stumble on planting the oats: I just remembered. It was that the tractor guy came in the fall. Steve and Rogue the Rototiller were very busy elsewhere in the garden and not into the intended tomato patch until late spring. Forgiving myself ...

Steve

 

[seedcorn]

Cilantro came up wild in garden. Went to seed, planted the seed, NOTHING CAME UP. Now the peppers and tomatoes are in, no cilantro. Trying to start some in house.

Never got zucchini, late cabbage or egg plants up.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I'm sure I'll think of a few later, but I failed to get everything mulched that I wanted to. That's going to hurt me later even more than now. The way mulch keeps weeds/grass down a mulched area is much easier to clean up come planting time.

I failed to keep an eye on the eggplant. Flea beetles killed them.

I failed to dehydrate any cilantro. They've gone to full flower so I'll get a lot of coriander, which we don't use.

 

[baymule]

Half of what I planted didn't come up. Half of what came up, died. But I am still happy with what I got and what is producing. Something is better than nothing!

 

[ninnymary]

I need to work on succession planting. Need to plan so that I have lettuce and cilantro year round.

Mary

 

[ducks4you]

I didn't get around to planting my Indian corn, so that will wait until next year. I had quite a good nursery of plants going this whole spring/summer on the front porch. I started pouring water from the stove, like for sweet corn or beets, through a sieve and into a 10 gallon plastic paint bucket, and then I watered the porch plants with that, even though I could have poured it down the drain, instead. Otherwise, most of of my experiments went well, and I have a few new lists of companion plants, like okra and beets to plant together again.
I have 22 mortgage lifter tomatoes that I started from ONE package of seeds and the green babies keep getting bigger every day, so I'm not complaining much. My HAY man is having a cow! I don't think he harvested hay more than once this whole month. I haven't had to fill my horse's water trough for THREE WEEKS because we have had almost record breaking rain and they are getting water from the pasture. That is really weird!! Should have a low water bill next month.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

lets see......actually get my garden to ground! i did start some plants in the house but nothing really made it to the ground other than the volunteers from last year's plants sowing themselves. i still have plants i bought in pots.

plans are to get started with a fall garden. better get moving with the tiller for this.

i have today off but the weather is questionable-occasional rain but supposed to pour later. weekend is supposed to be nice but i have to get the coop run repaired-part of the netting was thin plastic & over the past couple years it broke down from the UV light. i have a couple hens that have taken advantage of this & i found today a nest just around the corner in my utility sink that's hidden behind the coop. no eggs are going to hatch but a couple went bad.