Garden Blog: Garden 2015

Garden 2015

Amended new raised bed with dried leaves on 1/1/15 and with a 40LB bag of mushroom compost and 50LB bag of cow compost on 2/3. Amended raised bed on patio with dried leaves and rabbit manure on 1/23. Brussel Sprouts and cabbage that was planted on 9/7/14 are still growing in old raised bed.

Built new raised bed to protect from tree roots 2/16.

All container soil is left over from last years tomatoes amended with cow/mushroom compost, dried leaves and rabbit manure.

****End of Year****

Had great success putting ground up rabbit manure around root ball when transplanting tomatoes. Husky cherry tomatoes that were planted in August did well. HCR's should be good to plant all summer. No luck with "heat tolerant" varieties for the third consecutive year. Mulch container tomatoes with dried leaves from the start.

Okra season was terrible. Only about a half gallon of okra all year. Tree roots in south raised bed probably sapped the nutrients out of the soil. 2016 - plant in same spot after making sure roots are out.

Cucumbers did good but need to find a solution to keep the bugs off.

Beets did well in tan grow bag using Garden Tone and fish emulsion to fertilize.

2016 winter fall/winter garden, focus on radishes and arugula.

Temps were still in the mid-70's all the way through the month of December. Only four nights below 35 so far this fall.

VEGGIES

Onions: Planted 9 white onions and 9 red onions in old raised bed 1/23. Soil not amended.

Yukon Gold Potatoes: Planted 21 seed potatoes in new raised bed on 2/3 (full moon closest to Valentine's Day) and 6 seed potatoes in the patio raised bed on 2/3 - Planted containers and north raised bed 2/22 - Fertilized with 0-0-60 - amended soil with Cow compost and dried rabbit manure. First plants broke through the dirt on 2/28 - Planted two large pots 3/8 - four more containers planted 3/21 --- First harvest 4/28 4lbs --- South raised bed harvested 5/2: 23lbs (120+ potatoes) --- 12LBS Containers 5/7 --- 9 LBS Raised Box 5/9 --- 13LBS North bed 5/10 --- 12LBS Containers 5/10
TOTAL: Planted 13LBS Harvested 73LBS Planted 6 in the small raised bed 8/15

Jalapeno: One plant started from seed - transplanted seedling to big pot 3/1. Bought two plants from Walmart - planted 2/28 --- First harvest 4/29 - peppers on seed plant were very mild - planted 2 more 7/20 - planted 4 more 8/3 soaked root ball in fish emulsion

Green Bell: Planted 2/28 - first pepper 3/28 --- First harvest 4/20

Okra: Clemson Spineless - 20 - planted 5/5 - harvested 4-5 pods per day from late June thru late July and then the plants shut down at aprox 4' - fertilized with 10-10-10 on 7/23 - plants fizzled out in early August probably because of the tree roots invading the bed.

Cucumber: Boston Pickling - 3 planted in grow bag 4/26 - plant died early August - Planted 3 more 8/3 and soaked root balls with fish emulsion

Sweet Potatoes: Beauregard - 18 slips planted 5/14 - Harvested 53LBS 8/14

Red Peppers: 2 - Planted 5/30

TOMATOES

Husky: Planted 3 HRC's on 2/22 - new growth on all three have leaf curl - first fruit seen 3/29 --- First harvest 5/2

Sweet 100's: 3 - Planted 3/1 - placed dried, ground up rabbit manure around and under root ball - new growth on the top of all three plants are seeing tight leaf curl, possibly too much nitrogen in soil - first fruit seen 3/29 --- First harvest 5/3 -

Grape: 3 - Planted 3/8 - placed dried, ground up rabbit manure around and under root ball - first fruit 3/30

Sun Gold: 3 - Planted 3/14 - placed dried, ground up rabbit manure around and under root ball - first fruit 3/30 --- First harvest 4/29

Cherokee Purple: 3 - Planted 3/29 - placed dried, ground up rabbit manure around root ball of the plant in the biggest container only - no additional additives to the other two

Super Sweet 100: 2 - Planted 6/7 - plants growing great in July/August heat but take on bad taste

Sun Gold: 2 - Planted 6/14 - plants growing great in summer heat but take on bad taste

FALL GARDEN

Beets: Planted seeds 8/15 - Moved beets to full sun and they took off. No problem growing beets in containers.

Bell Peppers: Planted Seeds 8/15

Cherokee Purple Tomato: Planted seeds 8/15

Husky Cherry Tomato: Planted 3 8/16 - dipped root ball in fish emulsion

Yukon Gold Potatoes: Planted seed potatoes 8/14

Snow Peas: Planted north bed 8/18

Georgia Collards: Planted south bed 9/5 - four good harvests as of 1/1/16.

Red Cabbage: Planted north bed 9/5 - harvested 8 heads on 1/23/16

TREES

Satsuma: Fertilized 3/1 with Citrus Tone - dead

Fuji Apple: Fertilized 3/1 with Citrus Tone

Wisteria: Plant in trees got first buds 3/14 - flowers 3/24