2022 Garden (Pt3)
It’s November, and the 2022 garden has finished! Overall, I’d say it was a success for the first-year garden. We learned a lot about what to do and what not to do! I still have my marigolds growing in two spots, but they’ll be there for a while
Our tomatoes and jalapenos were the most successful plants this year in produce. Most of the tomatoes were split, so they weren’t very nice to eat fresh. We got a bunch in the freezer that I will make into sauce. My carrots were also a pretty successful crop! It looked like one plant, but it was like 6-8 carrots when I pulled them up! I think carrots are one of my favorite things to grow!
We only got a handful of bush beans, and in the end, I forgot about them, so they went bad. The squash and zucchini plants grew but never produced.
My onion never came up, and I can’t forget about my garlic.
Oh wait, all that was not garlic; it was thick pieces of grass that I somehow thought looked like garlic. When I look at these pictures, I still can’t stop chuckling. I can’t believe I thought this was garlic. If you read back on Pt 2, I was so excited and confident about it. I pulled it out; there were just roots and this weird mold. They did have two purposes, though. One, they made the garden look super successful, and two, they helped hold the tomatoes up! I had to add bricks near the base of the tomato trellis to keep them from falling after I took the grass out.
I’m most sad that my sunflowers didn’t grow. I started them out in pots to keep the Bunny away, but they were all rootbound when I went to transplant them. They didn’t grow much after transplanting them and were about to bloom. I think one did open up but then withered quickly.
I finally transplanted my raspberry plant to the ground. That was the best choice I made for it so far. The whole main stock was black; still not sure why. My guess is that it didn’t have enough nutrients and possibly mold. When I took it out of the bucket, it was so wet. One thing I remember reading about raspberries is that they need a well-drained spot, or else they can grow root-rot.
The main reason I transplanted it when I did was that so many little shoots were coming up. My plant couldn’t do what it was supposed to do because it was stuck in the bucket. So, i moved it, and it’s much happier. I pruned the main stock down for the fall. Hoping next year, it will have more fruit!
My marigolds are still growing! I love them; they’re so pretty! I also saw the ones I planted a while ago by the mailbox are still there. So even if the lawn-mower guy cuts them down 3-4 times, they’ll pop up again and again!
Here on the other posts about the 2022 garden:
Top things I learned:
- Don’t try to grow raspberries in pots; they need space to shoot out.
- Don’t grow garlic in a raised bed. My main reason for this is that garlic does spread, so if you want to keep it in the same area, it’s better to be more contained. Maybe it’ll be easier to spot grasses growing too.
- Seeds do get old; that was the main problem with our bush beans. Only 1/20 seeds I planted came up, and that plant didn’t grow much.
That is the wrap of the 2022 garden!
~Becky 🙂
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