It pains me too when I have definite plans, then volunteer plants from last year wreck my plans! Maybe they sense I can't bear to destroy them, LOL!
While weeding 6 weeks or so ago, I found many little tomato plants where I had planted beets and basil, also found some chives that had spread out on to the walkway. So I potted them all up and left them out on my street with a "free" sign. The tomatoes all got snatched up immediately, even though my sign just gave a general idea of what varieties they *might* be, but nobody wanted my poor chives! So I transferred those to a larger container and put it by the back door, so when I'm cooking and want to add more flavor, I can grab some chives without getting my lazy slippers dirty.
Most of the other volunteers I have are red potatoes - I ended up with a few potato plants in the Dahlia bed and a few in the cauliflower/broccoli bed. The two beds that are actually planned for potatoes, I will keep growing, but yesterday I dug up all the ones in the C/B bed, since they were interfering with their growth. Got a couple pounds of nice little 1"-2" delicious potatoes, just the right amount to add to my pork roast, along with a bunch of small beets and beet greens from thinning their bed, leftover carrots and celery, and a pack of Costco mushrooms.
When the Dahlias grow bigger, the potatoes lurking in their bed will be the next to get dug up, probably as part of another delicious roast.
I'm so happy that my plants and the timing of them so far has ended up with mostly good results, but I have to share my latest stupid fail.
I planted lemon cukes from really old seeds, added some melons on the same trellis from the other side. The melons have been growing great, the lemon cukes not - only one even sprouted, then it withered and died. I KNEW I had more lemon cuke seeds, searched for them everywhere, then gave up and bought a packet last time I was at the feed store. Then tonight, as I was searching for my tape measure, found the packet of lemon-cuke seeds that I knew I'd had.
Garden planned? Organized? Not so much.
I couldn't get the bag to seal no matter what I did. Even on the moist setting, it keeps sucking the marinade into the machine, making a colossal mess, and not sealing. I was so frustrated and angry that I eventually just used an impulse sealer and threw them in a mylar bag...
I’m thinking beneficial nematodes for next spring, has anyone had experience using those?
