Your 2026 Garden

[akroberts1085]

I just read a thing on Pinterest about tomatoes. I'm definitely going to implement the new technique and see how it goes. I'm hoping that I get a better harvest this year

 

[Molpet]

I just read a thing on Pinterest about tomatoes. I'm definitely going to implement the new technique and see how it goes. I'm hoping that I get a better harvest this year

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[akroberts1085]

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What thing

7 things to add to the hole before planting. 1 shell from an egg, 3- 325 mg.asprin, 2 banana peel, Epsom salt, bone meal, raw unsalted fish and a multivitamin and calcium tablet. I don't know if it will work but I will find out.

 

[dirkandlorie]

7 things to add to the hole before planting. 1 shell from an egg, 3- 325 mg.asprin, 2 banana peel, Epsom salt, bone meal, raw unsalted fish and a multivitamin and calcium tablet. I don't know if it will work but I will find out.

I have always put egg shell, banana peel and Epsom salt in the hole before planting tomatoes and peppers. More like in a trench, since their roots spread so much. I dig the day before, dump the goodies in and cover with about 6 inches of soil. Planting is easy the next day since the soil is already dug up, place the plant and push the remaining soil in place. Aspirin is supposed to help tomatoes fight off diseases, so might try that this year. Don't know anything about multivitamin and calcium tablets. Has anyone here heard anything about those two items? Seems like the calcium tablet would be the same as adding egg shells, to help prevent blossom end rot, but I know nothing about them.

 

[akroberts1085]

I haven't heard of anything about putting anything in the hole before planting. I just thought it might be something to try and see what happens.

 

[dirkandlorie]

This is going to be my first year of growing corn. I've always felt it took up too much space and was so cheap to buy that I didn't bother. Last year I couldn't find my favorite super sweet corn anywhere, just regular, so I bought nothing. No corn, all year, waah! I need all the advice I can get from y'all to ensure I don't go through another year of no corn. After 50 years of growing food, I am a newbie again. Help me please!

 

[Debbie292d]

This is going to be my first year of growing corn. I've always felt it took up too much space and was so cheap to buy that I didn't bother. Last year I couldn't find my favorite super sweet corn anywhere, just regular, so I bought nothing. No corn, all year, waah! I need all the advice I can get from y'all to ensure I don't go through another year of no corn. After 50 years of growing food, I am a newbie again. Help me please!

We sometimes get it in from a farmer neighbor. If you have one nearby, ask them for some. If it's not sweet enough when you cook it, just add a teaspoon or two of sugar to a few gallons of water and boil it. Our farmers' corn tastes great, so we didn't do that, but Mom used to.

We love having our own frozen corn, so even though we're trimming down our garden, corn isn't one we will eliminate.

We always plant two kinds and usually go to TSC to pick out two with harvest dates 7+ days apart.

In the fall, any cobs not harvested by us are picked and hung in a gunny sack in the garden shed for feeding squirrels, etc., in the winter.

We call the neighbor who comes with his truck and scythes the stalks for his sheep.

So, there's no way we wouldn't plant it.

 

[akroberts1085]

With the corn loving nitrogen so much the thing that I found that works is the shedding of a eucalyptus tree.

 

[pollipazzi]

beds are in!

 

[StarOnFire59]

I don't know about crocuses, but last spring, or was it the spring before we had that early warm weather, then freezing weather for a week. Anyway, the tulips and a few other things around here came up about 6 inches, and even though we threw sheets on them, they still froze. A month or so later, they came back up. I think it stunts them and puts them back into hibernation? I do not know. I just know they did come back.

Thank you! My crocuses should be okay then. I know they are usually the first of the Holland bulbs to arrive in the Spring, before daffodils, tulips, irises, etc.
I know I cheat having them all here as they are not "desert" flowers, but they are all so beautiful.