LSS. Your garden looks great. It looks like you get a bunch of shade, or was that just due to the time of the pictures?

Thank you very much...

Both...I get some shade in the morning (I took the pictures this morning) from the trees. Then from about 10:30 through 4:00 they get a lot of sun...After that, they get shade from the guest house when the sun has moved...It helps the plants recover from the heat faster and retain the moisture longer...It's one of the reasons my tomato plants stay healthy from March through November...

Round Up the snot out of it.

I never have, but I know some people do. Corn is more heat tolerant than say tomatoes or squash, so the main benefit would be to keep the weeds down in corn rows...Of course the water retention would be helped, but they aren't as water needy as some plants...

I had some squash come up yesterday adter I had given up on them and replanted in another area. It took the 17 days to come up. Why in the world would it take so long?? Now Im really gonna be screwed because I just planted cucumbers in that row on Sunday since I had given up on the squash......

Numerous things can cause that...Being planted a bit too deep, lack of water, God showing you He has a sense of humor, etc.

You can transplant them to another area if need be...Just remember to dig a large enough, and deep enough hole when excavating the plant...Then transplant it and water thoroughly...

+1

Here's one picture of mine. I need to get a closer picture and a picture of the corn/beans/squash bed. The squash is doing terrible, like the tomatoes. Though, I put down some Diatemaceous earth last night. Hopefully that will help..

I figured out that I wasn't watering my maters enough and the fish carcass has done wonders!

Fish carcass?? Tell me more.

Buried a fish carcass under each tomato plant. Two weeks later one grew an inch overnight and has never looked better.

Here are a couple more pics. There are four rows 75 yards long. The 2 outside rows are black eyed peas and the two inside are corn. Haven't came up all the way yet, but everything this year has been really slow about coming up.

That's why I've taken off tomorrow - to go get some feesh!!!

how deep do you bury them,wont you have ants and bugs and stinky dirt

I buried em about a foot down. I dug down beside the mater and made a uturn under the plant and stuffed the fish in there.

Also, I have a confession, I was checking the moisture in my container potatoes and felt a tater so I pulled it up. Nice little red Norland. Picked my biggest pea too. That pea was sweet as all get out and the tater was the best raw tater I've ever had!

About a foot but I don't dig under any plants. I just plant 'em as close to the rootball as possible. "Stinky" is subjective, I suppose. The smell of freshly-manured ground reminds me of all the good stuff that'll be growing there. Then again, I don't roll up my windows when driving by a dead skunk.

Just did a biological assault on the garden.....


















I let loose about 1500 of these,lol.

Good job...I've never seen so many lady bugs this early in the growing season...It does my heart good...

90% of my tomato plants are now blooming...I spent about 30 minutes spanking them...

I have a few blooming.. My bucket plants are about half-arsed. I'm going to start fertilizing with dead fish.. My problem is wanting to grow too many things in the limited space I have.

my urban jungle.. Peas are going insane.

i just scored a hookup on free chicken poop all i want..question is how do i know how much to use..i dont want to burn the veggies..god my truck stinks right now