Showing posts with label preen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preen. Show all posts

Halfway Garden

Penulis : Admin Ashish Chaturevdi on Thursday, 12 August 2010 | 04:56

Thursday, 12 August 2010

The backyard garden halfway through the season.
Here's what it looked like just after planting. I put the grass clippings down so no seeds would wash away. I also used Preen to help control the weeds. That and grass mulch worked pretty well. till and mulch backyard garden, prepare to plant till and fertilize rows in garden
View from the roof while i was up cleaning the gutters and trimming the tree branches.
garden view from above, michigan soil, clay
The beans, cucumber and potatoes grew the fastest.
garden green beans, sprout first, grow well backyard garden, cucumber, huge cucumber and beans, from garden, clean
Again this year, the only thing i really care whether or not it grows, is corn. I planted three rows and it's doing ok. The shade from the tree isn't helping. Then i also found out afterwords that i should have soaked the seeds for 24 hours the day before to help it start germinating.
corn seed sprout, shoot corn seedling, sprouting, michigan garden corn rows, 1 month after planting corn husks on stalk, ready to pick, garden
I also planted some corn along the side of the garage. A couple of them are doing great.
rows of corn by the side of the garage
String for the 4 different types of tomato plants
string and lathe for tomato plants garden rows, wood stakes and string to support plants garden sunflowers and tomatoes
The bamboo shoots came up earlier in the year. Now all of the their energy is going into their roots, which are really starting to spread.
spreading bamboo roots, rhyzomes, invasive
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Garden - August

Penulis : Admin Ashish Chaturevdi on Thursday, 13 August 2009 | 16:57

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.
backyard garden harvest, tomato, corn, beans, onion
backyard garden, cherry tomato on vine
gourd in backyard garden, growing on vine, green
pumpkin just starting to grow in garden, green
baby carrot in garden
green tomato on vine, almost ripe
corn just starting to grow on stalk, corn on cob
Here's what it looked like after pulling the weeds. Notice the big pile on the right.
pulling weeds from garden, weed garden, preen
how to get rid of weeds in garden, pull, preen
and here's the new compost pile, maybe i'll end up with some good dirt for next year

simple compost bin, pile, wood posts, fence
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