My garden is growing leaps and bounds from my initial video garden update a couple weeks ago. Note to gardeners: I post a couple questions about some issues I’m having with my garden in the video. I’d love your input!
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I enjoyed the tour through your garden infortunately I am not very good at diagnosing problems in the garden. I hope you get answers soon. I am always experimenting in garden. I figure if it works great. If not, I have learned something and that is never a bad thing. Trying is better than not trying at all.
Move your mint, unless you want that whole container full of mint. I suggest a pot. Since your summer has been so wet, the leaves of the raspberries probably is mold. Spinach and lettuce can be picked leaf by leaf whenever you like until the first freeze or bolt. If it is blight on the tomatoes, you won’t get a good tomato harvest. Cover the soil with mulch and try not to water the leaves (although I have used the good parts of blight infected tomatoes for salsa with success). The corn will be fine as long as you guys get some sun (you should not give up if it doesn’t do well this year as it is unusually wet and cold). Looks great I wish I could grow such nice lettuce and spinach right now, but it just won’t grow.
Your garden looks great, Angela!! I would pinch off the suspect tomato leaves. Make sure you plant the tomatoes & nightshades in a different spot next year to prevent soil-borne problems. My corn did not grow. I’ll have to try your special corn nutrients next year. Your cucumber & zucchini are doing much better than mine. I may have planted them too early. They look like they drowned! I’m so glad your mesclun is doing well. Isn’t it great to be able to eat out of the garden?!! Your strawberries will be amazing next year. My parents are on their second year, mainly June-bearing, and we had a large colander full every other day. I second the previous comment about the mint. That thing will take over, if given the opportunity. What a great first year!
Oh, Angela, your garden looks fabulous- what a great first garden! I can’t believe you got spinach to that stage- mine bolted two weeks ago. As for your questions, here are my thoughts:
-Clip all the runners off the strawberries- they are taking energy from the plant! You only want runners when it’s time to rehabilitate the plot. See more info at http://www.backyardgardener.com/plants/gstrawberry.html
- You’re right, onions are done when the tops brown and fall over- hopefully when they bulb up, too. Make sure not to overwater when it’s not hot.
-I’d just remove the rasp. leaves- sometimes you just have to accept browning leaves- my garden is full of them. They don’t always mean something awful.
-You’re not crazy with corn- we can grow lots of varieties here in the NW. I grow a main-season 80-day corn and a quick variety 60-day corn to get corn from August through October.
-The tomatoes might have a fungus or blight, but my experience is just to remove all the offending leaves. Sometimes I get more spots, but the plant still produces lots for me (and I never use any spray). And yours look so healthy otherwise- definitely do not pull them up yet!
Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing at the TGP!
Everything looks great! My raspberries do the same… I don’t do a thing to/for them except a little fertilizer early in the season; they produce like crazy.
I agree with the others regarding the tomatoes… like Jami I don’t spray… at some point the plant usually takes off and is strong enough to handle a few “issues”. And yes, tomatoes do not like wet leaves… water at the base:)
Bravo on your garden!
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