Hi and thanks for the ping. I used to have a large garden, inheiritated from the woman who we bought our first house from. The soil was incredibly fertile and anything I plant grew fabulously! My first learning experience in gardening, do not plant 6 hills of cucumbers! My second experience in gardening, do not us fresh horse manure as fertilizer. You get a very nice crop of grass, alfalfa and field corn.
Anyway, I haven’t been much of a gardener since we built our ‘new’ house in ‘88. I’ve mainly grown raspberries (easy) herbs (easy) and tomatoes, easy now that I got some great advice from Diana in Wisconsin about hour to fertilize and prevent fungus. Thank you Diana! I’ve shared your advice with more people than I can count.
I had a smallish perennial garden which became overgrown. My dear husband dug it all up for me this spring and I am back to gardening, although at a much smaller scale then most of you,
I planted one hill of cukes, one hill of pickling cukes, pole beans, spinnach, radishes, 3 peppers, 3 okra that a friend gave me and a row of brussel sprouts because I love the plants.
I will be paying much nore attention to these threads now and probably asking a lot more questions.
First question. What is the best method for fertilizing? I have rather sandy soil.
The tomatoes are in a separate area in a raised bed with different soil and dear Diana helped me handle that.
Thanks guys! I love these threads.
Oh my starz! Are you kidding? That is all that I plant in. My beds are nothing but horse manure; 1ft deep. With the high pH levels I have to contend with, fresh horse manure is one of the few things I can use to amend the soil. A hoe takes care of the volunteer plants.