Hopefully my notes in the above picture wont be too hard to read or remember.
A few lessons learned....
1)I learned last year that 5 determinate tomatoes was too much for one square of my garden...4 seemed a bit tight, but this year 4 is WAAAAAY too tight....next year I would like to stagger 2 per square and use the extra space to shade lettuce or spinach or maybe herbs in order to help prevent bolting.
2)last year I learned that 16 pepper plants was waaaay too many for one square...so WHY did I do it again? I have no idea! next year someone physically stop me from planting that many again...PLEASE! only 9 per square...make me do it....or maybe stagger 2 rows of 4 with 3 in the middle...maybe!
3)mini tomatoes apparently dont work in pots on my deck...they are just tiny and sad
4)for some reason arugula and mesclun have been pitiful in my pots, and riddled with holes in my garden. grrrr
5)continuously pick lettuce....dont get lazy...I had so much go bitter that I could have consumed if I had just gotten out there earlier! makes me so frustrated!
6)broccoli doesnt like my garden...and it doesnt like my tummy...I should just give up and move on...
7)apparently japanese beetles love basil...but they wont touch lemon basil...maybe I should companion plant those or something...very interesting!
8)dont bother planting carrots between the tomatoes, they just get too covered by foliage.
9)trying to be clever and planting tomatoes on top of and below my homemade upsydownsy pots just isnt a good idea....should have remembered from last year...the pots dont retain enough water to sustain 2 plants. stop being greedy and just plant 1
10)oh, and btw...so far I am not impressed with the tomatoes I planted upside down...they dont seem any healthier or better off than the ones I planted right side up....only more crooked!
11)training a cuke to climb a trellis is pretty cool...and it would appear that only 1 cuke is enough for my current trellis...guess mother nature knew better when she only allowed 1 to grow.
