Seriously, our garden is getting a little out of control this year. This picture was taken about 2 weeks ago and it's gotten even crazier since then. I'm happy it's producing so well but I'm a little worried it's going to strangle itself. The cantaloupe are being especially aggressive towards the raspberries, and if I have to pick between the two fruit I'll choose raspberries. I decided to try growing melons this year and every time I mentioned it to a fellow gardener I kind of got a "good luck" look. So I decided to start some seeds indoors and transplant them outside when it got warm enough. Just for good measure I also planted a hill of seeds next to each transplant. And for extra good measure I planted the hills and transplants less than half the recommended space apart. I figured I could thin them out later. I'd rather have too many successful plants than not enough and end up wasting all that precious garden space. But the thing is I have a really hard time thinning because that seems like such a waste a perfectly healthy plant. Well all the seeds and transplants have thrived except 2 of the watermelons, and I haven't really done any thinning. At this point I have watermelon and cantaloupe vines all clinging to each other and thinning is a real mess. And how do I choose which plants should live and which plants should die anyways? So I guess we'll just see what we get. I think next year I might build something the vines can climb up so we can utilize our space a little better.
It still never ceases to amaze me when I see some of these...
It still never ceases to amaze me when I see some of these...
and these.
It's like magic the way we can grow food in our very own backyard. And this year we installed a drip system so I feel like I've done so little work to help them grow that I really can't take much credit. Besides we also have tons of these little ladies helping out.
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Wow! Very impressive. I hope to some day have a "thriving" garden. My is sad. I think I planted too late and I'm not sure if my new square foot gardening is working as well as I would like.
I'll have to come get some pointers from you!
I feel bad about thinning too- it's just not fair to kill a plant that worked so hard to get to that point.
I think I'll have to get some pointers from you too as 90% of the peas and carrots I planted either didn't come up or dried and died before we could get to harvest them.
That's an awesome looking garden. Nicely done. :)
Tee hee hee. I'm sure glad we don't work like those bees too!! I'm very envious of your garden. Next year (or sometime in our lifetime when we get a garden going again) you'll have to tell us how the drip system works. That's one good looking garden you've got!!
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