What have you learned from this years garden?

[Hattie the Hen]

Hi there!

The main thing I have learnt is to use Aspirin water on my seeds before germination & then once a week thereafter. It has been a revelation!

:rose Hattie :rose

 

[blue skys]

I have learned that I have lots to learn. But I am having lots of fun in the process. I need to have a soil analysis done.

 

[Catalina]

Water, water, water! It really DOES make a difference! (and my mother was right, yet again ).

 

[DawnSuiter]

This years lesson is:

Plant bee loving flowers near your garden, so the bees will come by and do their job.

 

[obsessed]

And if they (bees) are late or don't arrive.... get your kids paint brush out....

 

[davaroo]

What have I learned? Here you go:

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=26309

 

[aquarose]

I have to follow Davaroo? (I feel so inadequate) Anyway....
1. Don't plant if it seems too cold despite the calendar date.
2. Don't trust the chickens in the garden.
3. Raised beds are what I have been waiting for.
4. Trellis the cukes and tomatos before they get tremendous.
5. Mint gets really tall in wet weather.
6. The pine needles from my MIL's house make the best garden mulch I have ever had.
7. Lots of things will grow fine without the requisite 6 hours of full sun.
8. Beets are more challenging than I thought.

 

[davaroo]

I have to follow Davaroo? (I feel so inadequate) Anyway....
1. Don't plant if it seems too cold - despite the calendar date.
2. Don't trust the chickens in the garden.
3. Raised beds are what I have been waiting for.
4. Trellis the cukes and tomatos before they get tremendous.
5. Mint gets really tall in wet weather.
6. The pine needles from my MIL's house make the best garden mulch I have ever had.
7. Lots of things will grow fine without the requisite 6 hours of full sun.
8. Beets are more challenging than I thought.

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I have to follow Davaroo? (I feel so inadequate) Whats that all about?

1. I make that mistake at least once in each gardening year...

2. Yeah, chickens are for when the garden has died down....

3. Amen! Oh, my back!

4. I didn't want to fuss with that this year. I wont do that again...

5. Makes you wonder where its going below ground, too....

6. Pine needles rule! Just dont put them in the compost pile.

7. My garden is in dappled sun half the day - and you're right. It grows.

8. Dunno, never tried them. I'm trying turnips for the first time, though. Does that count?

 

[aquarose]

I have to follow Davaroo? (I feel so inadequate) Anyway....
1. Don't plant if it seems too cold - despite the calendar date.
2. Don't trust the chickens in the garden.
3. Raised beds are what I have been waiting for.
4. Trellis the cukes and tomatos before they get tremendous.
5. Mint gets really tall in wet weather.
6. The pine needles from my MIL's house make the best garden mulch I have ever had.
7. Lots of things will grow fine without the requisite 6 hours of full sun.
8. Beets are more challenging than I thought.

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I have to follow Davaroo? (I feel so inadequate) Whats that all about?

1. I make that mistake at least once in each gardening year...

2. Yeah, chickens are for when the garden has died down....

3. Amen! Oh, my back!

4. I didn't want to fuss with that this year. I wont do that again...

5. Makes you wonder where its going below ground, too....

6. Pine needles rule! Just dont put them in the compost pile.

7. My garden is in dappled sun half the day - and you're right. It grows.

8. Dunno, never tried them. I'm trying turnips for the first time, though. Does that count?

Thanks Davaroo. You just seem to have a really good handle on things...writing, thinking, gardening!

 

[bid]

Sunflowers have the most amazingingly wonderful scent. I guess I never took the time to "stop and smell the sunflowers" before.