Grass clippings. It’s working great so far. I tried many different things over the years. One time I used noodles from blocking down big stuff. I think it may have messed with the pH or something as my plants seemed unhappy for a while after that. Took 2 seasons of treating the soil w/ peat and I was back to normal.
Nice seeing some posts from others with flourishing gardens. Things are moving along slowly here with the garden however everything but my green onions and potatoes seem to be doing okay, even with all the rain (onion seeds and potatoes just haven't sprouted yet). Don't remember how much rain we had in May, but if the extended forecast holds true, we're looking at only 5 days with no rain between June 1st through July 10th. At least the cooling effect of the rain has let me hold off on harvesting all my lettuce. Trying some new things this year with the Greenstalk planter, grow bags, and the railing boxes. Also added in a ninth stock tank with a planned tenth for next year. Final tally was tomatoes (Better Boy, Brandywine, Roma, and cherry), eggplant, squash (butternut, summer, zucchini, and buttercup), cucumbers, peppers (bell and sweet banana), string beans, cabbage, broccoli, celery, beets, radishes, green onions, kale, rosemary, parsley, 3 types of lettuce, strawberries, and Pontiac red potatoes. Not bad for a little home garden.
Black caps are coming on strong. In the last 3 years this patch has doubled in size, especially since taking down a large yellow birch above them in the fall of 2021.
Cut 5 heads of iceberg lettuce and trimmed the salad greens again. Hopefully the mint establishes itself here and comes back every year. Sprouts are sprout’n. The nearby willow tree is littered w these bastages. Sweet taters vining like crazy.
We've had a wet spring and start to summer. Hopefully, these blueberries continue to ripen and stay plump. A drought last year resulted in very small berries.
Ahh. Lol. I have a book here on keeping deer out of a garden without using fences. Mint is supposed to be something they don't like and its supposed to mask the scent of the things they do. I haven't tried it. We use motion activated sprinklers all around the garden. Only thing that has worked that we've tried. Fence will be a last resort.
Around here Mint will not only establish itself but will take over any area you plant it in and even those you didn't.
I had 2 (now 1) spots of catmint on the property, and it has spread at a very slow rate. We’ve put it in ice tea primarily. I do have some extra landscape edging, maybe I should create a border around this garden spot so it doesn’t become a problem. This was labeled as mojito mint when I bought it and it seems to be really taking off. Last thing I want to do is fight it.
Are they as bad as trumpet vine? Hoe lee.....my parents old place is infested with them. The nephew is losing the battle.
My son loves using our mint to make hot tea. Beautiful looking garden and May have to steal your grass idea
don2222 if you look back at the pics on this thread, you'll get some ideas on tomato support. I start with a piece of wood, then a metal cage and tied with string where needed.
