Your 2025 Garden

[fuzzi]

Same here, rain started a couple hours before it was forecast.

My melons have been tasteless this year, wondering why, as they were ripe. I gave one to the chickens, and they ate it, seeds, flesh, down to the rind.

 

[R2elk]

Same here, rain started a couple hours before it was forecast.

My melons have been tasteless this year, wondering why, as they were ripe. I gave one to the chickens, and they ate it, seeds, flesh, down to the rind.

Too much water and missing trace minerals can lead to "tasteless" produce.

All of my produce got much tastier when I started using azomite which is trace minerals. I am on a sand dune so everything washes through very quickly. People with good soil don't need to apply it as heavily or as frequently as I have to.

 

[Sally PB]

I dug some potatoes today, and had one for dinner. With onions, garlic, and eggs. Home grown dinner. to the grocery store.

Has anyone ever used a shade cloth over tomato plants to help prevent sunscald? It's a big problem for me, so I was thinking I'd drape a white bedsheet over some plants that have a lot of big green tomatoes on them.

 

[fuzzi]

Too much water and missing trace minerals can lead to "tasteless" produce.

All of my produce got much tastier when I started using azomite which is trace minerals. I am on a sand dune so everything washes through very quickly. People with good soil don't need to apply it as heavily or as frequently as I have to.

We have a lot of rain here, and the area I planted on was recently cleared. The ground was compacted from the machinery, was mostly clay, so I put a layer of chicken run litter (well composted) over the dirt, and planted the melons in boxes of dirt mixed with compost. I'd used the box method a couple years ago with great results, not sure what the difference was.

The two elderberry bushes I planted in the same area are doing great.

 

[fuzzi]

I dug some potatoes today, and had one for dinner. With onions, garlic, and eggs. Home grown dinner. to the grocery store.

Has anyone ever used a shade cloth over tomato plants to help prevent sunscald? It's a big problem for me, so I was thinking I'd drape a white bedsheet over some plants that have a lot of big green tomatoes on them.

I stopped cutting off the suckers, haven't had sunscald since.