2026 Garden

Just get some 10 10 10 fertilizer for your garden and feed it. I feed every 20 days or so. But we have very poor soil and have to build the raised beds with mulch, steer manure or horse. I buy a lot of bagged mulch to top off the beds. Miraclegro isn't a good garden feed too much nitrogen. It does work but makes the top grow too much instead of root growing.
I use a local produced feed for tomatoes and peppers and 10-10-10 for the rest of the garden.
brymoore knows the local company it's Dr. Jim Z on the internet and in town it's ZamZows. Expensive products but safe for dogs/animals and kids. Love their lawn fertilizer.
I do ok with Jobe sticks.
 
Learned a couple new things the other night. I have to hand pollinate the Mexican Sour cucumbers since they are in a greenhouse. They are so tiny I finally gave in and put my glasses on to see everything. I think I got 4 or 6 done. They are just starting to put flowers on. Then pollinated the acorn squash a little behind on that. Thank goodness for YouTube or I'd never figured it out. Not seeing many bees around but things are just starting to bloom garden wise. They trees were full of bees when the apricots were blooming. Old dogs can still learn!
 
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For some reason I feel way behind on the garden, even though we are probably ahead of schedule. Started a bunch of stuff early in the greenhouse but it stayed cool here so long I don’t know I gained much from it.

Just put these raised beds in after a little tussle with my wife about fighting weeds, so here we are.

Not sure if we planted less overall, or are just better with appropriating space, but I’ve got a lot of extra space in the middle to do something with, maybe go hit the local greenhouses and fill in with more tomatoes since the ones we have are just kinda hanging in there and not taking off.

Definitely planted a pile more flowers this year, which I can say I enjoyed growing far more than I ever expected. The edge around the raised beds is all perennials and I’ve got a big stretch along the gate of annuals, and another wildflower mix in a 14x10 bed by the house, as well as a nice bed of crocuses and tulips and… some other stuff I can’t recall by the garage.
 

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