beavis
Deeply Rooted
That looks absolutely stunning!
Well done and happy harvesting ahead!
Well done and happy harvesting ahead!
Gardens gone wild!
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nittygrittydirtdigger
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Gorgeous! You should be very proud!
digitS'
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Very Beautiful, Joan 
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Someday, I'm going to have a garden like that! I am, I am!
Steve
!Someday, I'm going to have a garden like that! I am, I am!
Steve
lesa
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Joan- everything looks so lush and healthy!!! Good for you! I notice in your post, you say the last two years weren't so good for you. I would be interested to know what you did differently?? What do you attribute the change to? (I can already see a lot of hard work was involved!!) Congrats and enjoy all that delicious food!
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Southern Gardener
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Before I planted, I tilled in 13-13-13 fertilizer, my compost heap I had cooking all last summer and my worm castings.
Last spring we had flooding rains in April and May and my garden sits low and stayed wet for to long I believe. This year we haven't had the heavy rain so I've been doing the watering.
The past two years I didn't use fertilizer - except compost, so I think that has a lot to do with it, although I used very little - I sprinkled (2) 1 quart nursery cups of fertilizer on my
26 x 46 garden. I side dressed my corn when it was about knee high. I know some folks cringe at the thought of commercial fertilizer, but I chose to use it this year.
Last spring we had flooding rains in April and May and my garden sits low and stayed wet for to long I believe. This year we haven't had the heavy rain so I've been doing the watering.
The past two years I didn't use fertilizer - except compost, so I think that has a lot to do with it, although I used very little - I sprinkled (2) 1 quart nursery cups of fertilizer on my
26 x 46 garden. I side dressed my corn when it was about knee high. I know some folks cringe at the thought of commercial fertilizer, but I chose to use it this year.
Kim_NC
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How pretty and tidy. Really nice job!
We rarely use fertilizers either.....we compost manures (cow, pig, chicken) to improve soils and side dress/mulch with them too.
We rarely use fertilizers either.....we compost manures (cow, pig, chicken) to improve soils and side dress/mulch with them too.
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Simply stunning!
digitS'
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For a good number of years, I put synthetic fertilizer in my compost pile. As I was completing it in the fall, about the required amount for that garden would go in with all the frost-killed plants.
Since the compost wasn't used for 18 months, I felt that this approach was reasonable and safe. A Louisiana garden would have a 12 month growing season, I suppose. That would mean organic matter would be decomposing at a steady clip, year around. It would, no doubt, double the yearly addition for someone with only a 6 month growing season . . . and I don't even have that :/.
These days, organic fertilizer goes in my veggie garden (altho' synthetics go in the ornamentals). The darn organic fertilizer is so expensive, I can't bring myself to put it in the compost pile! I will buy composted chicken manure for the pile, however. I've never owned sufficient chickens to match the size of my gardens. I don't even like to think how many that would take
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Steve
Since the compost wasn't used for 18 months, I felt that this approach was reasonable and safe. A Louisiana garden would have a 12 month growing season, I suppose. That would mean organic matter would be decomposing at a steady clip, year around. It would, no doubt, double the yearly addition for someone with only a 6 month growing season . . . and I don't even have that :/.
These days, organic fertilizer goes in my veggie garden (altho' synthetics go in the ornamentals). The darn organic fertilizer is so expensive, I can't bring myself to put it in the compost pile! I will buy composted chicken manure for the pile, however. I've never owned sufficient chickens to match the size of my gardens. I don't even like to think how many that would take
!Steve
Suburban Farmer
Leafing Out
WOW! Looks great. I will consider myself lucky if my garden turns out half as nice as yours.
