Comments on: Welcome To My 2016 Garden Adventure!

By: Anne241

Anne241 — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:59:00 +0000

Whereabouts are you Melissa? Sun is really important for all three, but especially the tomatoes and peppers.
Soil quality is also crucial: if it currently isn’t great you could just add fertiliser, or you could use permaculture methods to improve it – much better for the soil in the end, but it will take a few years to really start getting great harvests if poor soil is the issue.
Check out the Smiling Gardener on youtube for lots of great permaculture gardening advice.
Good luck!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 22:18:00 +0000

Veg!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 22:04:00 +0000

Oh man! This post totally made me want to grow more flowers! I’m totally digging my garden this year. Currently cooking zucchini bread to deal with the two infant sized zucchs pictures below. Love seeing your garden updates! I’m on IG @rachelwigglo with a lot more garden pics.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 02:00:00 +0000

I finally had space to plant tomatoes, peppers and squash this year but despite tilling, I haven’t had much luck. People tell me to spray Miracle grow on everything but I don’t want to. Any pointers?

By: ellie

ellie — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 03:58:00 +0000

Since I will be moving abroad in 2 months, I didn’t want to plant too much, but my mom and I bought heirloom starters at a local farmer’s market. So far I have had 9 or so cherry tomatoes and a jalapeno that went straight into some homemade salsa :)

By: Rebecca Carnes

Rebecca Carnes — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:20:00 +0000

Oh yes, I’m still excited to create a home for some bees and butterflies…just so long as they stay outside :)

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:39:00 +0000

Yes, always keep growing and planting! Sorry you had to deal with so many pests. It’s a sad reality and part of the bargain. Hopefully you can find a good natural repellant. I’ve never had too much of an issue with aphids so don’t have any suggestions, but I feel like it’s going to be a problem at this new house so I’ll let you know if I find anything.

Also, AWESOME to the wildflowers! Love that! Don’t let the bee dissuade you, that would be so rad!!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:33:00 +0000

What an awesome community garden! It looks very much in the center of a city, which I love. I always want to grow tomatillo but never do, not since my very first grown-up garden in college waaaaay back in the day. I used to grow tomatillos and roast them to make a homemade enchilada verde sauce. Damn, yeah I should totally do that again . . .

Love the pics, thank you for sharing!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:33:00 +0000

I will follow you, thanks Brianna!

By: Sayward Rebhal

Sayward Rebhal — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:31:00 +0000

Oh yay, congratulations on the move and on the new garden! You can grow lots of veggies in containers too, like tomatoes and strawberries and cucumbers if you have room for them to trellis. I wish I had a good resource but I can’t think of one specific to container gardening off the top of my head (besides my own archives here — I wrote a few posts about container gardening way back in 2010-2100, somewhere in there).

The herbs are such a great place to start though. Awesome payoff for very little space. Congrats!