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Post by daylilydude on Oct 10, 2018 4:20:42 GMT -5
Gardening is either over or almost over for the majority of most of us this year, so is there anything that you found while gardening this year that you will change next year?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 5:27:16 GMT -5
Yes, possibly location and I also gave up on the community garden totally
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Post by paulf on Oct 10, 2018 7:16:08 GMT -5
I will grow only half the tomato plants next year that usually get planted.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 8:45:36 GMT -5
LOL, are we already telling lies for next year???!!! Sorry, I always say just that, not so many and yet....
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Post by september on Oct 10, 2018 9:36:33 GMT -5
Don't keep any eggplant seedlings for myself - never picked and ate even one eggplant produced. Get carrot seed in earlier and thin, thin, thin. Put down weed blocker fabric or some kind of mulch before the weeds get out of control.
Of course I have said all these things before without much success.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Oct 10, 2018 9:42:27 GMT -5
Well, I would like a redo on the whole gardening season. Fortunately, I get that since next year is a brand new year! Lol! We need to get more sunshine to the actual garden where it sits right now. DH will do that over the winter with his chainsaw. I am also giving up the community garden plot. I wish I didn't have so much stuff over there to clean up and drag back home. When I leased the plot I had to pay a $15 deposit, and at this point, it would be worth the fifteen dollars to let someone else clean it up. I have way too many of my plant supports and buckets over there to not take care of it myself. Sigh.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Oct 10, 2018 10:13:39 GMT -5
Reduce the numbers and types of both sweet and hot peppers, reduces the varieties of cucumbers and sweet potatoes, do repeat watermelon, maybe add that Little Lucy okra if I can bum some seed but no more than 20 feet of row.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 10, 2018 12:23:46 GMT -5
I have 2 varieties of dry beans that formed pods so late that they were still growing in late summer when Mexican Bean Beetles arrived in my area.
My plants are devastated and I don't know if the pods will dry and give me any beans.
I will not grow late maturing beans again.
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Post by spacecase0 on Oct 10, 2018 18:12:24 GMT -5
I change almost everything in my garden almost ever year. the watermelon plot will likely be the only unchanged thing.
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Post by octave1 on Oct 11, 2018 10:12:15 GMT -5
No more potted plants, self-watering or not. I was going to say "no more volunteers, and I mean it", but then I get some of the most interesting and flavorful produce from volunteers. Perhaps I should be seriously considering growing a "volunteers only garden". It looks like it's heading that way anyway.
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Post by horsea on Oct 11, 2018 18:44:31 GMT -5
I will stop trying to grow vegetables near the big apple tree. Roots are sucking the life out of my crop in that spot. I'll seed some poppies & wild flowers and let it be.
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Post by paulf on Oct 11, 2018 21:00:05 GMT -5
LOL, are we already telling lies for next year???!!! Sorry, I always say just that, not so many and yet.... No lies here this time. No matter what I have said in the past, next year half the number as this and every other year I can remember.
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Post by paquebot on Oct 11, 2018 23:06:09 GMT -5
Number one is to not break my neck and thus start the tomatoes and peppers on time and not a month late. Then cut back on snap beans and no dry beans. Otherwise same as this year if only the home garden to work with. Then concentrate on making it a great one.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2018 23:31:29 GMT -5
LOL, are we already telling lies for next year???!!! Sorry, I always say just that, not so many and yet.... No lies here this time. No matter what I have said in the past, next year half the number as this and every other year I can remember. No offense meant, just I always say, " less this year! " and yet I seem to go off the plan, LOL. A seed I forgot I have or some one suggests something, or I think it sure would be nice to have a few more flowers over there....
And there it foes again.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 12, 2018 16:21:39 GMT -5
Next season I will definitely be planting less of some things. Many of these peppers, that I end up with excessive numbers of, are from just 2 plants, but I've always felt that I had to plant 2, because if the one plant got killed, I would have none! Next year, I will only plant one of a few of them, and if something happens, so be it.
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Post by paulf on Oct 12, 2018 16:34:56 GMT -5
No lies here this time. No matter what I have said in the past, next year half the number as this and every other year I can remember. No offense meant, just I always say, " less this year! " and yet I seem to go off the plan, LOL. A seed I forgot I have or some one suggests something, or I think it sure would be nice to have a few more flowers over there.... And there it foes again.
No offense taken...especially since I have said this same thing for several years...this time I really mean it.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 12, 2018 17:40:06 GMT -5
Next season I will definitely be planting less of some things. Many of these peppers, that I end up with excessive numbers of, are from just 2 plants, but I've always felt that I had to plant 2, because if the one plant got killed, I would have none! Next year, I will only plant one of a few of them, and if something happens, so be it.
And, of course, there are always those new varieties that didn't work out this year. I have to sit and update my records, once I have little else to do outside.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Oct 29, 2018 16:46:11 GMT -5
I think I will cut back further on tomatoes by planting only one indeterminate plant per EB. Probably less yield per box that way, but it should be easier to contain the sprawl and have better airflow between and around plants. Since fungal diseases are so bad here, that should be a plus.
Though determinate tomatoes I may still plant 2 per EB.
Beyond that, I haven't yet given much thought to next year's garden. I need to get the garden cleaned up now and the fall/winter garden planted before I am ready to give serious thought to the spring/summer garden.
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