Yeah man, they're tasty. The best way I can describe it is a tangerine mixed with a lime. Definitely tart. The flesh is tangerine color. Fruits are about the size of a key lime.
Cabbage moth centralThis can work with lettuce as it grows in a narrow shape to the top.
This doesn't work well with swiss chard or kale because they form a broad drooping canopy that gets wider as the crop develops.
Removing bottom leaves can help management on top of the soil but won't help with management below the soil.
You could continue to add nutrients and soil to the container as the plant gets taller but that adds to the expense of a already constricted and reduced yield. Brings me back to my point that square foot gardening is for a casual person who wants to garden for fun but not actually seriously use it as a dependent supplement of your food supply because it doesn't give you the yields you could be making per plant per square foot. Nothing wrong with containers or beds or vertical growing but intensive planting in limited space isn't the efficient food maker that you may think it is e.g. lots of plants in every space must mean lots of food per space. Instead you may have lots of little plants making little food.
I like that pallet garden idea. Might try that if the snow ever melts. Lost over a month of potential growing with how far winter has stretched outThere's alot of issues with overcrowding your vegetables and not just with soil but you will increase everything bad - fungus, disease, rot, insects, wet plants, wilt, inproper drainage, air
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Blight doesn't die after two years. This is incorrect. Hypothetically blight should die after the plant dies but they winter on debris and the cycle continues. It's virtually impossible to get rid of all the infected debris as it hides in the soil and has likely spread outside your garden. Rotating is a small measure of prevention but it wont prevent blight either because it often gets carried into soil by winds from neighbouring soils.
Basically if you are new to gardening and live in a typcal climate with cycles of moisture and humidity during the growing season you want to avoid overcrowding your plants if possible. Even if you live in dry climate the problem with this method will still come when you water the garden as most water distribution will occur from the top down straight onto the leaves and trickle down to soil. This is a fungus, wilt and filtration issue waiting to happen. You could possibly get away with narrow crops such as lettuce that you will trim often but It's still going to be finicky trying to control the weeds when you have such narrow pathways between for maintenance.
You could however tarp the soil with plastic crop cover which we do alot in agri farming in Korea. Im just saying this isn't a very easy method to manage as a beginner gardener and invites alot more issues than if you had just planted less crops and spaced it out. If you don't have a ton of time to invest and manage a garden everyday I highly recommend not doing this method imo. If space is at issue look into building some kind of way to espalier your leaf and fruit crops to hang from pots and grow out vertically and keep bulb crops for the ground.
Yeah. Sure that'd fly with the wife!
Are you starting your own sweet potato? Now would be the time since the shoots will take awhile to grow.
There are a slew of common bacteria that infect fruit trees during wetter than normal years and winter in dead leaves and get carried or blow back onto the tree and continue to reinfect it. Canker and blight are also very very common forms of too wet years induced bacteria that cause premature leaf drop and fruit loss. Pruning the dead wood will help the tree recover faster, rake and dispose of the leaves in the fall until you are sure the disease is no longer reinfecting the tree.
I love sage. I plant them for their pretty leaves and purple flowers. I don't even harvest the leaves at all, just like the way it looks. It's great honey bee and hummingbird attracting plant and it lives through very cold winters like it's nothing.
I'm going to say slugs.
they love when you plant so close together that they don't get dried out crawling around going from plant to plant.
Not sure, this will be my first year. Usually do an outdoor garden.
I'm not sure how well they would do inside especially if you use central air. Sweet potatoes love very hot humid weather.
I was going to put them in the garage with lamps
Of the few published attempts I've seen even using sweet and white potatoes, they seem to do poorly indoors resulting in very few and small potatoes.
Favorite methods for slug management?
well I have a chicken run that is narrow but surrounds my garden...so that eliminates all the snails(lots here) and slugs
also crushed chicken egg shell or crushed nut shells can deter any slug/snail from crossing and messing with your plants...sharp edges cut their undersides, and they tend to not cross those types of things.
U better have some amazing lights(aka cannabis grow lights) or you are gonna have issues IMO
My garden is just right huge though. I figure this will get very expensive. I hate these big orange slugs.
should just use Sluggo....it is natural and not that expensive...If you have backyard chickens it is not good though cause it can get in chickens via the snails/slugs
My wife really wants to get some yard birds. I'm not necessarily against it, but at the same time I don't need any more shit to take care of. In short, we'll probably end up with chickens soon
well I got chicken tips when the time comes...and they will also eat the shit out of your garden LOL...they eat and dig at roots of everything looking for bugs, often exposing rootsMy wife really wants to get some yard birds. I'm not necessarily against it, but at the same time I don't need any more shit to take care of. In short, we'll probably end up with chickens soon
We have some friends that have chickens, and they also use ducks in their garden for bug/pest control. Apparently ducks eat the shit outta garden bugs.
or good natural light on a southern or western facing window that gets decent sunlight...that would work too
