Gardens gone wild!

[beavis]

That looks absolutely stunning!

Well done and happy harvesting ahead!

 

[Chantay]

Looks Great! Way to Go!

 

[nittygrittydirtdigger]

Gorgeous! You should be very proud!

 

[digitS']

Very Beautiful, Joan !

Someday, I'm going to have a garden like that! I am, I am!



Steve

 

[lesa]

Joan- everything looks so lush and healthy!!! Good for you! I notice in your post, you say the last two years weren't so good for you. I would be interested to know what you did differently?? What do you attribute the change to? (I can already see a lot of hard work was involved!!) Congrats and enjoy all that delicious food!

 

[Southern Gardener]

Before I planted, I tilled in 13-13-13 fertilizer, my compost heap I had cooking all last summer and my worm castings.

Last spring we had flooding rains in April and May and my garden sits low and stayed wet for to long I believe. This year we haven't had the heavy rain so I've been doing the watering.

The past two years I didn't use fertilizer - except compost, so I think that has a lot to do with it, although I used very little - I sprinkled (2) 1 quart nursery cups of fertilizer on my
26 x 46 garden. I side dressed my corn when it was about knee high. I know some folks cringe at the thought of commercial fertilizer, but I chose to use it this year.

 

[Kim_NC]

How pretty and tidy. Really nice job!

We rarely use fertilizers either.....we compost manures (cow, pig, chicken) to improve soils and side dress/mulch with them too.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Simply stunning!

 

[digitS']

For a good number of years, I put synthetic fertilizer in my compost pile. As I was completing it in the fall, about the required amount for that garden would go in with all the frost-killed plants.

Since the compost wasn't used for 18 months, I felt that this approach was reasonable and safe. A Louisiana garden would have a 12 month growing season, I suppose. That would mean organic matter would be decomposing at a steady clip, year around. It would, no doubt, double the yearly addition for someone with only a 6 month growing season . . . and I don't even have that :/.

These days, organic fertilizer goes in my veggie garden (altho' synthetics go in the ornamentals). The darn organic fertilizer is so expensive, I can't bring myself to put it in the compost pile! I will buy composted chicken manure for the pile, however. I've never owned sufficient chickens to match the size of my gardens. I don't even like to think how many that would take !

Steve

 

[Suburban Farmer]

WOW! Looks great. I will consider myself lucky if my garden turns out half as nice as yours.