1) How big is your garden area? Traditional garden rows / raised beds / pots or containers / combo? Is your garden on your property or do you have a community garden plot (or a combo of both)?
I have a few places in my yard that I attempt to grow things. Mostly in designated beds that the soil have been worked on for years and years to get anything to really grow. It is hard for me to figure out the actual size of it.
2) What are your gardening goals? Fresh eating during the season to supplement groceries / preservation for the rest of the year through: canning / freezing / dehydrating / root cellaring or other cold storage?
Grow food that I know isn't GMO and full of chemicals and radiation.
3) Did you have pest problems in 2011 and how did you deal with them?
I had a very nice Hubbard Squash vine, it had only male flowers! It made a nice vine on the front of the house!
4) Did you have plant disease problems in 2011 and how did you deal with them / how do you plan to deal with any aftermath in the coming years?
Didn't have any diseases I can remember...
moolie said:
None this year, touch wood!
(Hey! My Hebrew Teacher says that, I had always heard it said "Knock on Wood" until I met her)
5) What is one thing you want to improve about your garden in 2012?
Improve the soil. Stop trying to grow vegetables in the summer, it is not worth the expense of the water.
6) What specific challenges do you face where you garden and do you have any questions that perhaps someone here can help you with? (This can be anything--water availability, slope, shade, soil, weather etc.)
Never enough water, no matter what time of year! Though we did have a good amt. of rain in Dec.
7) What is one triumph of your 2011 garden year? (Plant varieties that did super well / a new technique you tried that really paid off / just the fact that you did something new or even began a garden for the first time (yay!) / ways to extend your season / you got some member/s of your family on board for the first time etc.)
I tried to grow things that didn't take much water this summer. And now here in the winter I am attempting to water less often. I have found that the radishes, lettuces, spinach, etc. this year are going gang busters in the new bed that "summered over" covered in plastic, with goat and chicken bedding "cooking" for most of the summer. I just may do that again this year!
Someday I would love to live where I could have a great garden all year long!
Is there such a place?
Maybe So. CA!!
And, the zucchini was always a few feet from that. I also had all of the rest of my vine crops growing on the fence. This year, I'll be redoing my garden, so not sure exactly how I'm going to grow them. I'm putting electric along the top of my fence to keep the groundhogs from climbing over. (And yes, they do climb!)
