Garden - 2011

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

This year was the same story as the last two years. There's not enough sun in my back yard due to all the trees. I really only get about 4 hours of direct sunlight. Besides that, some of the plants did ok. I really only care about the corn, but with the lack of sunlight they are never really going to grow well in my yard.

Here's what i grew:

• peppers - red, green, orange, jalapeno
• corn
• sunflowers
• tomatoes - cherry, giant
• gourds
• carrots
• onions
• pumpkins

After the first month.

The sunflowers did the best this year. They grew so high and big that some broke in half on windy days.



The peppers grew pretty well.
They must not need as much sunlight as other plants. The jalapeno's did the best of all the peppers.
The carrots came out ok. Some of them split open and others had weird mutant shapes.
Notice the weird looking carrot.


The gourds on the fence did great too.

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Garden - October

Monday, 12 October 2009

Well everything has been picked from the garden except gourds and tomatoes which are still going great. I grew 2 pumpkins that were about softball size and lots of carrots.

Also the bamboo is taking over, by next year my yard will look like a Vietnamese jungle

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Garden - August

Thursday, 13 August 2009

By this point it wasn't as much a garden as it was an area of my yard FILLED with weeds. Next year i'm using Preen for sure to prevent that from happening. I spent a good hour pulling enough weeds to fill a garbage can.

But lets start with the good stuff. The tomatoes, carrots, pumpkins and corn are growing great. Everything else isn't.







Here's what it looked like after pulling the weeds. Notice the big pile on the right.


and here's the new compost pile, maybe i'll end up with some good dirt for next year

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