It’s like a crack addiction, a little used to do but a little became more and more.
That would be very interesting. I do believe there is a symbiotic relationship between plants, such as edibles with flowers. For example, marigolds are supposed to repel rabbits and other plants will deter tomato horn worm.
My wife spent years learning this after moving here and then my mother, el genio, came down and learned the hard way while ignoring everything Lynn tried to tell her.
Depending on your results, a fall planting works well. Spring plantings seem to get buggy at the worst possible point.
Her advice was to keep them near the house, near a hose, and never forget to water tomatoes 4x a day.
That’s one of the major investments this year. We’re putting a (drip) irrigation system in on all the garden beds to avoid having to manually water with a hose. Had a guy come out this week to work up a quote.
there was plenty left that got tilled in. i didn't rake well. Also, there was a LOT of grass that I let go wild last summer.
I found a couple rolls of soaker hose in my crawl space left by the previous owner. I might try to figure out a way to arch that from bucket to bucket
Pecans are breaking bud about a week and a half early; we aren’t forecast to get to about 35 so we should be good.The peppers are starting to look like peppers & others are germinating in the flats.
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Outside it's the same story this season with the peaches, Monday morning low will be 24F.
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Good they look strong at 35F you should be ok. Thankfully our Wine grapes look tight budded & asleep, however at 75F for another week & they will be popped open & setting buds.
I was late on my first spray for bud moth last year and about a dozen trees got hit hard, then the ambrosia beetles found those trees and attacked them. This year I mixed Bifen in my paint I use for spray guards.
It's powerful for sure. https://www.domyown.com/bifen-xts-p-1236.html
I found a few in a spider web on a tree that was stressed going into this year. They are tiny and without a magnifying glass, I’m assuming that’s what they are. I pruned really hard on my 3rd year trees and figure it’s going to stress them a little more breaking out.
Jim, a quick and easy way is find some 55 gallon plastic barrels and cut them in half. I just cut 2 more barrels and made 4 planters, 17.5" tall. Drilled drain holes in the bottoms. Went to the local "soil products" manufacturer yesterday and bought a yard of bulk raised bed potting mix, filled all of them, topped off my other beds and filled up a spare 95 gallon roll out garbage can. Dirt, like everything else, has gotten expensive, $47.30/yd with tax.
My parents did ours with treated lumber. Lots of designs out there making forms and making beds out of cement, if you’re thinking long term.
I’m afraid that dirt is going to be more valuable than the vegetables. Gotta see if the horse farm across the road will give me some compostable manure.
I may be late to the show here, but I thought I would show you what I have done. We tore out our previous pallet beds because after 4 years they were rotted. This time I got some organic preservative that I was given by some real super greeny people. It made the wood look quite beautiful. Anyway pallet designs are great because they're just stupid cheap. I will also send you a photo of some metal raised beds that I bought
I have a bad case of jealousy
