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Nice garden, show us some pics. The cucumbers here get ridiculous in size. I used to take them to work and there was always jokes about them. I'm trying to decide what to do with all the cucumbers. I used to give away tons of stuff from the garden at work. Now that I'm retired and food is so expensive I will be preserving.i 'scrape' the chips off of the top after the first several waterings in the bed, before i plant anything...
before i plant in a bed, i 'mature' the bed before i plant, it gets watered a few days before i put anything into it
those chips 'float' to the top, and you can run the side of your hand along the top of the bed, using a tool, with care, will achieve the same results, and gather those 'extra chips' up and take them away
took me a couple of seasons to see what was happening...the chips stay at the top, the dirt filters down a bit, scrape those wood chunks off and toss them at the bottom of another bed or your mulch pit will gladly 'eat' them
i have a base of dg but need to fluff it up because it'll pack down nicely, plants will grow in it, but they grow better with a bit of aeration in the dirt and that kellogs top soil and off-brand potting mix from the store works well for me...i mainly grow in above ground boxes, and they're mostly filled with that store stuff...
wood chips and too much sand in my mix...both were a problem for me, in the beginning
nice pics everyone!
i'll take some and share...
my cucumbers are about 12" long, lots of green onion seeds and radish seeds growing now (as in maturing now), a new bed of celery, second box of potatoes and damn aphids on two tomato plants, but i now have 5, maybe 6 of them, first successful grow of jalapenos...bitch to grow, i agree, very fussy in ways i can't figure out, green been plants that were supposed to be 'bush beans' that are finicky also...
i'm very blessed, my second year and i'm playing with stuff i never imagined...quantity and sustainability are what my goals are now, quality will come along as i gain more experience but the strawberrys are awesome
and i want to avoid as much as is practical buying fertilizer...there's much learning in my future but pics will come
good thread!
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