What did you do in the garden today?

[krowl]

My garden is blooming like crazy and I have squash, cucumbers and tomatoes coming along nicely. View attachment 1025649

Wow! Everything looks great and so healthy! Are you using anything to add to the soil? I noticed my snap peas were struggling this morning. I am going to post pics later to see what everyone on here things is going on with them....

 

[chickadoodles]

AUGH!!!!!!
DH decided he was going to be helpful today and rototil my garden. I hear the tiller start up and get going. I look out the window and start cussing; he is going down the middle where all of my corn and green beans are planted and coming up!
Well looks like I am replanting my beans and corn later this week.

Wow I'm so sorry.

 

[chickadoodles]

Wow! Everything looks great and so healthy! Are you using anything to add to the soil? I noticed my snap peas were struggling this morning. I am going to post pics later to see what everyone on here things is going on with them....

Thank you.
I am using a potting soil recipe by Larry Hall off of Youtube and added a few things to it.
I used peat, ground up leaves and grass clippings, rabbit manure (2-5 gallon buckets)
fish meal, bone meal, epsom salts and azomite. Also my garden is a wicking bed and my plants are in 5 gallon grow bags.

 

[krowl]

Thank you.
I am using a potting soil recipe by Larry Hall off of Youtube and added a few things to it.
I used peat, ground up leaves and grass clippings, rabbit manure (2-5 gallon buckets)
fish meal, bone meal, epsom salts and azomite. Also my garden is a wicking bed and my plants are in 5 gallon grow bags.

Clearly i have a lot to learn about gardening....and here I was thinking i could just use some good organic dirt

 

[krowl]

See attached picture...these are my snap peas...they aren't exactly thriving...any suggestsions as to what they need??

 

[jerryse]

See attached picture...these are my snap peas...they aren't exactly thriving...any suggestsions as to what they need??

I see a tag in the second pic . Did you buy these as starts or grow from seed ? If they were starts then they may be root bound from the pot . Many plants never recover from crowded roots .

 

[krowl]

I see a tag in the second pic . Did you buy these as starts or grow from seed ? If they were starts then they may be root bound from the pot . Many plants never recover from crowded roots .

I bought them as starts and didn't do seeds this year...is there anything to help them along?

 

[jerryse]

I bought them as starts and didn't do seeds this year...is there anything to help them along?

Not that I know of . From seed I often inoculate the seed with nitrogen fixing stuff . Forget what it is really called . All legumes benefit from this . Really starts are a poor choice on many plants . Years ago I bought some balsam impatiens as starts . They stayed very small and set seed . The seed fell and grew into full sized plants . Two years ago the local lumber yard at the lake was giving free starts at end of season . I took 3 pumpkin . Thought why not . They never got over 6 inches and never set pumpkins . Lesson learned .

 

[lazy gardener]

I agree with Jerry. The plants that are sold by box stores and even some nurseries as "starts" are an embarrassment. I've even seen corn sold in a 6 pack. They are completely pot bound and guaranteed to NOT produce even a meal. Any of your large seed plants are best to be started right where you intend to grow them. they don't do very well being transplanted. (that being said, I sometimes cheat and start seeds in pots, but intend to get them into the garden before they get much past the cotyledon stage.

Krowl, you'll do well to see any pods at all from those sugar snaps. It's not too late to buy a few packets of seeds (depending on where you live) and get some plants going that will actually produce.

 

[karenerwin]

Any ideas as to what I need to do to get the long neck yellow squash to set fruit/vegetable instead of the flowers falling off? The cucumber and zucchini are doing fine, but the yellow squash doesn't do anything except bloom and then fall off.