RE: Garden Journal, End of September Report
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Oh man this is some great gardening! I'm looking forward to when we own some land to be able to start this type of planting. We've tried doing things in pots but it's just not the same, you constantly have to monitor the nutrients and the roots just don't do as well.
It's funny, the marigolds picture I was thinking was all tomato plants but then once I saw the zoomed in version, I saw that it was a lot of red flowers!
We just canned our first things this year. We got really good deals on tomatoes from one of the local farms we buy our CSA's from and got 20 pounds for 5$ so we bought about 20 boxes and now have dozens of mason jars all cooked up, sitting in the cabinet! I've been a bit behind on posting up the pictures and results for it but I'm hoping to be able to do it this week.
Some awesome gardening you're doing here!
By the way, I see you're from Wisconsin. My favorite radio hosts, Dave and Chuck the freak broadcast here in Boston. Some hilarious stuff goes on with that show, not sure if you listen to them!
Thanks for the great comments!
Those marigolds are the best ones that I've ever grown. In the past, the plants stayed smaller, getting no taller than about a foot. These are at least 2 feet tall for the most part. I need to look at the seeds that I used this year to see if I can get the same ones for next year. I'm going to save seeds from these plants to use next year also.
20 pounds of tomatoes is a really good price, I would have jumped on that myself!
Container gardening is easier with larger containers. I'm planning on buying a couple more 25 gallon pots for my outdoor container garden. the 15 gallon pots just aren't big enough for the root space for more than 1 tomato plant, and even a 15 gallon pot takes a fair amount of monitoring with 1 tomato plant. I use the 15 gallon pots in the greenhouse because the 25 gallon pots take up too much space.
Yeah having a greenhouse is awesome but in a place like the UP of Michigan you definitely need it if you want to grow things late in the season. Are you able to maintain a garden year round or at least a few months into the cold weather?
I think we might have had one fifteen gallon pot but a bunch of smaller ones. I didn’t look at the tags but one is huge, the others I’m not sure if they are like 3-4 gallon pots.
Our deck is good enough to grow herbs that are low maintenance. We are going to pick all the basil tomorrow, it’s gotten into the 40’s here last night and tonight so I want to salvage them before they die. Fresh dried basil is so much better than the store crap!