This was only my second year gardening, and first year with my own yard 😤 Everything is in containers. I struggled a lot with figuring out a good place to put containers that got enough sunlight. I was trying to avoid the front yard because I was worried about car exhaust and grossness getting onto veggies, but when I finally caved and moved everything to the front it started growing much much better. Lots of things also got chomped by deer and groundhogs in the backyard. I had hoped that big containers would keep the groundhogs out but I caught one climbing up onto the top and eating all the seedlings. Lots of failures, lots of dead plants. I tried to plant some native flowers in the backyard hoping to get them to spread to the empty lot behind us, but no success. A lot of seeds got eaten by birds.
I had better luck with both veggie and flower starts that I bought from the local farmer’s market. I was SO CLOSE to getting sunflowers, the flower heads were coming out but then we had a big windy thunderstorm that knocked them over and they got all crispy after :( My only harvest this year are a couple of jalapeno peppers. I didn’t start anything indoors this year, but I definitely see the value in it now and I’m hoping to get a rack with grow lights set up over the winter.
What about you guys??
Pumpkins are big.
They’ve taken over the garden, half the yard, and show no signs of stopping. We don’t even have pumpkins yet, it’s just the vines.
Our singular broccoli is also massive, and so far has its leaves above the pumpkin plants (plural! What happens when plants 2 and 3 get as big as the first!?), but we shall see if it stays that way.
With any luck, we’ll be decked out for halloween.
I planted some broccoli before I saw a video showing how big it gets and immediately had to pivot to a much bigger planter lol