Comments on: Post mortem on the 2009 vegetable garden http://www.sutor.com/c/2010/02/post-mortem-on-the-2009-vegetable-garden/ Artifacts from my professional, personal, and virtual lives. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:07:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: - http://www.sutor.com/c/2010/02/post-mortem-on-the-2009-vegetable-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-312 - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:43:19 +0000 http://www.sutor.com/c/?p=824#comment-312 what weed? post a pic. somebody who comes across the pic, will recognize the species. from that, research your strategies. or post the pic at a plant/garden/hort/id site :-) what weed? post a pic. somebody who comes across the pic, will recognize the species. from that, research your strategies.
or post the pic at a plant/garden/hort/id site :-)

]]> By: Jason Hibbets http://www.sutor.com/c/2010/02/post-mortem-on-the-2009-vegetable-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Jason Hibbets Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:06:17 +0000 http://www.sutor.com/c/?p=824#comment-299 Great notes. I had a killer year in my vegetable garden here in Raleigh, NC. Vegetable equates more to salsa garden. I grow tomatoes and peppers. I took out two trees that we to the North of the garden and it really improved my productivity. I think the garden is really digging the captured rain water instead of the city water, see http://hibbets.net/pics/events2008.php?category=7&curPage=1. I made a similar mistake you mentioned the first year I had the garden. I tried growing corn, okra, pumpkins, zucchini, squash, tomatoes, and peppers. Too much, not enough space. So I second the advice, only grow what you can. (But I also think you need to try in order to realize what your limits are.) I strategically place plants so that early bloomers and late bloomers are near each other so I can pull the early bloomers, giving the late ones more space later in the season. Thanks for sharing, Jason Great notes. I had a killer year in my vegetable garden here in Raleigh, NC. Vegetable equates more to salsa garden. I grow tomatoes and peppers. I took out two trees that we to the North of the garden and it really improved my productivity. I think the garden is really digging the captured rain water instead of the city water, see http://hibbets.net/pics/events2008.php?category=7&curPage=1.

I made a similar mistake you mentioned the first year I had the garden. I tried growing corn, okra, pumpkins, zucchini, squash, tomatoes, and peppers. Too much, not enough space. So I second the advice, only grow what you can. (But I also think you need to try in order to realize what your limits are.) I strategically place plants so that early bloomers and late bloomers are near each other so I can pull the early bloomers, giving the late ones more space later in the season.

Thanks for sharing,
Jason

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