I don't doubt it. Never grown weeds before but quite enjoying it. I come home from work, head out to the plant to water it, trim it and admire it's growth. Relaxing and fun.
I wasn’t going to do more until spring, but earlier this week I cleared more brush so I figured may as well transplant more milkweed from down the road. I texted the landowner to let him know and while I was at it told him my plans for next year, with his permission of course. That includes mowing after first frost and then dragging two small sections to plant wildflowers. He was happy to hear Monarchs are there and said it was fine. I’m not sure if it’s stupid to spend the money on someone else’s property like that, but like my wife said, if it makes me happy doing it… This was a shitty year for gardening. In addition to lackluster results on the second wildflower plot I feel like a lot of the vegetable gardening was a bust. Cantaloupes produced fruit that was no good, watermelon didn’t blossom, and the potato yield was just okay. I think the drought cooked a couple blueberry plants, despite them being planted two years ago. That said we did get some nice big pumpkins, and the herbs grew really well. I’ll focus on those even more next year I think. How did everyone else gardens do?
You're like a god damn Pablo Escobar! Next year I'm going to put some in an area with more sun and much larger containers. Might try topping a plant and see how that goes.
This our first go at it, too. I couldn't say why these plants were successful, because I honestly do not know. They were in full sun, but we shaded the pots/roots most of the time. We used the same really good soil that I put in the flower beds. We only watered after the sun went down, which these plants and our flower beds seemed to like.
I don't really garden so much as dabble, but it was hit and miss. Tomatoes were weird, every time I picked a tomato that wasn't quite ripe, they would start molding within a day of picking them. I have some ripening late, and those have been fine. I've never seen anything like it. Cucumbers did great. I had 3 vines of all female variety that doesn't require pollination. They produced like crazy and for a pretty long period. There is apparently a disease attacking watermelons that I haven't seen before. I had a few melons set, but I would have had more if not for about 6 weeks of high temps. When the heat wave broke, I had several more set. And then after a decent amount of rain, the vines promptly died over a period of 7-10 days. Potatoes were meh, but mainly because I planted them too late.
This year was a write-off due to a cold wet Spring. Just focused on herbs this year, which did ok, but not great.
My beans and cherry tomatoes did great this year. The regular tomatoes started out great but took a nosedive, so I’m going to have to figure that out next year. I got enough to make homemade sauce, so I’m happy. The cherry peppers also did really well, so I’ll be planting them again next year. The eggplant was a complete waste of time and the bell peppers only started producing a couple of weeks ago. So, my success varied but overall I’m happy with how the garden turned out.