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Shannon is a Novice Gardener in Southern Maryland
Shannon's Tasteful Garden
Some of Shannon's fondest childhood memories include preparing tomatoes for "the deep freeze", shelling peas and snapping beans from her grandparents' large garden, and picking blackberries to be made into cobbler that very afternoon. Last summer the satisfaction of harvesting delicious cantaloupe every other day from her own back yard hooked her on maintaining a food garden of her own. This year she hopes to step up production and force herself to learn more about freezing, canning and dehydrating!
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- My Final Thought For May
- Hay Part Two and Some Beautiful Moments
- Potato Cages and Hay Mites
- Zucchini abounds!
- Thinning....
- Eggplants inside still going strong....
- A few pics of the tomatoes and peppers doing nicel...
- Potato hilling, bush beans sprouting, and more...
- Garden Plan
- Everythings coming up...well, veggies!!!!
- Sweet Potatoes
- Banana Fingerling Potatoes!
- The eggplant also rises!
- Everyone's alive and well....and more surprises!
- World's biggest klutz gets a pleasant surprise...
- Beautiful peppers...
- Tomatos and pepers and more....
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Wow, your peppers are huge! They look great! Mine are still the size of a gum ball. I'm glad to see the leaves on your green pepper are curling some, so were mine and I thought there was something wrong with them.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you mound your bush beans? I got french beans that are also bush style beans, should I have mounded them?
Thanks for any insight!
Well, I mounded everything this time out - the reason I did that was so that I only had to loosen a much less amount of soil, just where the plants were actually going to grow down, instead of the whole 800 sq feet. I got the idea from reading Steve Solomon's Gardening When It Counts, Growing Food In Hard Times.
ReplyDeleteIt left me with a grid of walkways which makes it really easy to get around in there. So far the only thing this probably wasn't a good idea for was the banana fingerling potatoes, since I need to mound them as they grow, which is proving difficult if not impossible. The bush beans are coming up FAST. I'm thinking I'll need some kind of trellis/support for them, but I don't know...