The Wall Of Shame!! or..Hey! We Ain't Perfect!

[Ridgerunner]

I didnt even consider weeds. I get behind. Sometimes I catch up and sometimes I dont. I get behind again and sometimes I catch back up. Sometimes. I often use a strategy of weeding the ones that arent too bad with the thought I can do them pretty easily. If I get the really bad ones first, the easy ones are then really bad.

Another mistake this year. (I will limit this to this year) Im growing cotton for my wife. I planted it too close to the okra. I didnt realize how much it spreads out. Lets just call that section a jungle with the okra real hard to pick.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

that volunteer tomato I was all excited about this Spring turned out to be a real dud. It was very susceptible to virus attack as soon as the weather warmed up and the tomatos were few and nothing to brag about. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

I remember your volunteer tomato and how big it was. I had a volunteer squash. Big beautiful thing. Biggest in the garden, but every squash had blossom end rot and not another squah in the garden had it. I pulled it up because it was too close to the beans.

 

[NwMtGardener]

Well i was having a hard time picking a disaster...but after seeing Thistle's hilarious "martha stewart on crack" garden i decided to tell you about my pallet garden. Too bad i dont have pictures, it was years ago at our old house. But those pallet gardens were starting to be all the rage...so, what the heck, i build one. What a pain in the butt!! It was so hard to water, every time i did it poured dirt out the sides with the water...i had even stapled burlap inside the slats to help hold the dirt in place...eventually i gave up trying to keep those stupid plants alive...mega failure!

 

[Just-Moxie]

This is my big garden. There is 5 rows of potaotes, 2 rows of roma bush beans, some intermingled pumpkin plants and what is left of my sunflowers.

This is my tomato patch. We had to use bird netting on it this year, as last year, they got all ate. Not by us.

The Roma bush beans. I wore my big black boots and took a long stick so as not to pick up any copperheads this year. Took me 1 hour to find the beans. The rows are maybe 60' long.

Fruits of yesterdays 2.5 hours of labor in the heat and high humidity. Oh, that included snapping the beans and shucking the corn.

New crop of 6 plymouth rock babies.

 

[NwMtGardener]

OHBOY, moxie...that is pretty amazing. You even had to plant orange flags to see where the garden started?? I see some sunflowers back there... I'm pretty sure you've got a winning entry here!

 

[thistlebloom]

I love it Moxie! I can just see P. Alan Smith featuring "meadow gardens" on his program. You're on the cutting edge girl!
That new crop of chickies sure is nice too.

 

[Kassaundra]

I think my biggest fail by far this year is the raspberries, after spending all that time moving hundreds of feet (over 300) of raspberry plants over half died, the other half bore very well, only I had the plague during the whole time they were ripening and didn't get one berry!

 

[Just-Moxie]

I was poking fun at my garden... :/ The flags went in when planted, as we didn't do raised rows this year. Had to see where the good stuff started.... Now, we can see where we dig potatoes

After it started raining so much in June, I have only been able to weed them once.. Now it is an adventure to find the edibles in that jungle

 

[Nyboy]

Moxies have you picked up copperheads in the past?

 

[canesisters]

Moxie, I think it's great! You haven't worn yourself out AND you still get goodies! YOU GO!!!!

(and besides... minus the tunnel, it looks a LOT like mine)