Showing posts with label Tomato in a Bag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tomato in a Bag. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

2010 Square Foot Garden Planting Grids and Garden Notes


I have been busy with the food blog and with trying to work outside, between the neighbors burning leaves that is - so not much posting occurring over this way lately. I recently posted a wonderful Strawberry Buttermilk Sherbet at Deep South Dish, so if you haven't seen that, be sure to check it out. Oh, and check out that All American Burger too - hello yum! Makes me want another one just thinking about it!! Anyway, the last few days have been simply gorgeous and I have fortunately been able to {finally} open up the house and let some fresh air flow through the past two, since nobody is burning leaves. Yay! {I could post an entire Southern Style Hissy Fit rant about neighbors right now, I swear.}

It took me awhile to get the three beds cleaned up, turned and refreshed with new soil. Seems I move much slower these days, but the two 4 x 4 beds and the one 4 x 8 bed are all ready, and while I've gotten a few things planted, I'm still trying to decide what else I might plant.

You'll notice there is something new around my beds - some garden fencing. That's because of this "innocent" looking thing. {I still don't know his breed... anybody??}


He was climbing up into the veggie beds and while he can actually fit through these pieces, I'm hoping it will at least discourage him a bit.

I'll do a separate post on how I refreshed the bed soil this year since this is year two and I already had the beds established. I still have a 'what I'll do different' post coming about the end of this season that I didn't do at the end of last, and that sure would have made things a bit easier on me starting up this spring. Anyway...

As far as planting goes, last year I planted 2 crookneck squash plants in my larger 4 x 8 foot bed, and since with square foot gardening, each plant absorbs 9 squares out of the bed, those two plantings took up most of that bed. I think I've about convinced myself not to plant those this year. While I did get some squash out of the two plants before they succumbed to "something," I really don't think the return was worth the land investment. I love them, but honestly they are pretty cheap at the grocery store when they are in season.  If I plant one, I may do it out in the midst of the yard somewhere in spot of its own. At any rate, that leaves me lots of extra squares to plant other things so I've got to decide what else I want to plant. My mind seems so sluggish here lately for some reason, so I haven't been able to think or decide!

I did pick up an onion set from the garden center that just said "sweet onion" on it. I have no idea how that will do here, but I thought at the very least maybe the onion would help to act as a repellent for bugs. I know that Jerry Baker uses pulverized onion in some of his book formulas, so maybe... though, I might be dreaming. :)  The Square Foot Book says to do 16 per square - seemed hard to believe to me, but okay. We'll see what happens!

I found a couple of mystery plants growing in the compost pile, so I pulled them and stuck them into a bed just to see if they grew, and if they did, what they are!  I love mystery plants.

I kept my mint in a pot again, though for now I've just set the pot onto a square in the herb garden and actually this is the same mint plant from last year that I've managed to keep alive.

I also put one Better Boy tomato plant in my Topsy Turvy planter this year and moved it onto a plant stand in the middle of the yard, though it's actually a new planter.  Note:  Do not just leave your Topsy Turvy planter out in the elements over the winter, even if you have mild winters, or it just might dry rot.


The tomatoes in the Topsy didn't perform well last year on the edge of the eave of the house, though I'm not really certain why it didn't, but I did want to give it another shot.  I'm hoping that moving it out to the yard on a plant stand will help, but it is pretty heavy and bending the rack forward quite a bit. I hope the stand is going to be able to hold up without collapsing and dropping and breaking my plant like last year when it fell!

The tomato in a bag of Black Kow last year didn't yield a single tomato at all! Doubt that I will try that again. Course, ya never know with me.  I sure hate to admit defeat.  ;)

Click right here for my past Square Foot Gardening Quick Links - how to build a square foot garden from scratch, day 1, the trials & errors.



Here are my two primary gardening books - I highly recommend both but especially the "new" square foot gardening book, if you want to try this method.




Guide to Mississippi Vegetable Gardening - available for your state too! It's a perfect guide to tell you what to plant and what works best in your region, and also when to plant. I love this guide!





Here is the chart of what I have planted so far in my 2010 square foot garden beds- more to come as I make up my mind!

BED #1 - 4' x 4'




1 Creole Tomato 1 Creole Tomato 1 Creole Tomato
1 Creole Tomato

Spearmint in a PotMystery Plant from
 Compost
4 Marigolds (seed)
Mystery Plant from
 Compost
Mystery Plant from
 Compost
16 Sweet onions 1 Chive
1 Flat Leaf Parsley

1 Basil1 Oregano1 Rosemary
1 Thyme



In pots behind the bed - 1 Meyer Lemon, 1 Eggplant, 1 Patio Tomato, 1 Roma Tomato, 2 pots of Lavender



BED #2 - 4' x 4'

1 Better Boy Tomato 1 Better Boy Tomato 1 Better Boy Tomato 1 Better Boy Tomato

16 Sweet Onion


4 Marigolds (seed)




9 Blue Lake Bush
Green Beans
9 Blue Lake Bush
Green Beans


In pot to side: 2 Jubilee watermelon (seed)

BED #3 - 4' x 8'

I had to split Bed #3 up into two separate charts to fit it in the blog post. The top section of 4 Rows represent the Left Side of Bed #3; the bottom section 4 Rows represent the Right Side of Bed #3


Left Side of 4' x 8' Bed:


Cucumber (seed) Cucumber (seed) AVAILABLE Reserved (cantaloupe)




9 Blue Lake Bush
Green Beans
Carnival Mix Sweet
Peppers (seed)


9 Blue Lake Bush
Green Beans
Carnival Mix Sweet
Peppers (seed)
16 Sweet Onion

Right Side of 4' x 8' Bed:



Cantaloupe (seed) 1 Better Boy Tomato 1 Creole Tomato 1 Creole Tomato


16 Sweet Onion
1 Yellow Bell Pepper


Chile Pepper (seed) 1 Big Bertha Bell


Chile Pepper (seed) 1 Big Bertha Bell

More to Come Soon!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Vegetable Garden Update - 3 Month Report



I can't believe that I started my vegetable garden 3 months ago!

I'm happy to report that using pest control in a responsible manner has helped to get rid of a lot of the bug problems. It was frustrating at first but I didn't overuse the treatments and I'm also happy to report that I still have regular visits from bees and butterflies, I have frogs and lizards and spiders, and my 3 wild turtles seem to be fine. I think a large part of reducing the bug population has also been the work on the lawn to finally get rid of the overabundance of weeds, and to build back healthy grass - an ongoing project to say the least!

My biggest bug problem has been the aphids. I kill them, but they keep coming back. They have terrorized my eggplant and every single one of my pepper plants. I can't seem to get rid of the things! Now, that has been frustrating.

I'm hoping that the tomatoes will start maturing soon - seems that they are behind - but we did have a few cold spells there at the beginning of my planting which caused some blossom drop, so the tomatoes essentially had to start over. I have no idea how to calculate when they should mature now, so I'll just have to wait on them! And maybe eat a few fried green tomatoes in the meantime. And pray they don't get harmed by slugs or other critters!

Despite killing by hand several squash bugs and borers the squash has been producing well so far. I'm happy about that since every other time I've tried to plant them, those darned buggers have killed my plants. I've had plenty enough so far for things like squash casserole and squash fries!

The peppers and the beans, two plants that have always performed well for me, haven't this year. The peppers have had the aphid fight and the beans, well that was really my own fault - overplanting, but more on that later.

Here's a look at how the garden is doing for those of you who are curious.

Below is a shot of both of the 4 x 4 foot beds. The one in the forefront has all the herbs - basil, oregano, rosemary thyme, dill, chives, cilantro & parsley, they're doing okay, not great. I think I'm probably overwatering them. There are also a couple of Big Beef tomato plants and a cucumber plant. Yes, that white thing you see is a container. Plopped right up in the middle of my raised bed. Originally there was a cucumber plant in this square but it died, and I had planted one of the extra cucumbers in this little white container. As it grew, the stick support I put in there started leaning so I just stuck the whole container into the empty square in the raised bed to level it and let it climb on the netting.

I've gotten quite a few large cucumbers already - they've made an appearance already in those lovely summer salads I posted recently.

Yes, that's the original dead vine still hanging there. I didn't want to damage the surviving vine which was intertwined with the dead one, so I just left it.

And even the poor pepper plants that have suffered so much at the constant aphid attacks, is still trying to produce some peppers. I nearly pulled all of these plants up not long ago out of frustration, but maybe they'll end up producing something. The leaves look awful don't they, but many of the pepper plants and even the eggplant have new growth showing, so I'm encouraged, even though I had to treat for aphids yet again, two days ago, and there were a lot of them. Arrrgh!!

This is the back side of the other 4 x 4 foot bed - as you can see, I've been trimming a lot of branches off of those tomatoes - for two reasons. One, I want larger tomatoes, and two, those darned leaf miners make an ugly mess of things. They have literally taken over all of my veggie gardens and are near impossible to get rid of, if not impossible altogether. They don't really interfere with fruit production I think, unless they mine the entire plant I suppose, but they make the garden so ugly!

This is what the Big Beefs are looking like. The plants are gaining height to the point that they are now climbing up out of the vertical support so I'm a bit anxious to see how I'll handle that! There are only about a dozen tomatoes between these 4 plants in the two 4 x 4 foot beds. The one leftover Big Beef I stuck in a container has about 8 tomatoes alone!

In that same bed, there is a cantaloupe plant, several bell pepper plants and a few green beans. The second planting of those beans, which I over-planted the first time and ended up pulling up every single one of them {see Bad #2}, did not take well. I think the seeds I used were too old, so I've planted some fresh ones today. I guess we'll just call it "succession planting!" That might actually work out better anyway. I also have several cantaloupe melons hanging - I hope they make it but it's so exciting to know that these came from seeds that I planted! I've never planted cantaloupe before, so I guess as they mature they turn that lighter yellow color we're accustomed to!

Here's another - I think there may be about 4 large ones, and several babies so it's still trying to put more out. They seem to be doing fantastic with the nylon netting so far, but I'm wondering if I should make slings for them anyway?

This is a slightly closer view of the bed with the cantaloupe, peppers and beans. There are a couple of replacement pepper plants that I bought waiting to be planted - it's just been way too hot and I've ignored them. I finally got those put in today.

These are the Bush Goliath tomatoes that are in a large container. There are probably about 16 larger sized tomatoes on this one plant right now.

More of the Bush Goliath - they are clearly the largest tomatoes so far.

The Roma is in a large container too, but it's not really putting out as much fruit as I would like to see. I may plant several of these next year because I'd love to put some away. I relocated this container today to see if that makes a difference.

This is a front view of the Better Boy tomatoes in the larger 4 x 8 foot bed. I'm not sure how many tomatoes are on these plants - maybe about 30 or so.

This is a back view of the 4 x 8 foot bed. I totally love and highly recommend using the nylon netting and building vertical supports. It does a great job, way above and beyond those cheapo cages, certainly better than stakes, of supporting the tomato plants and I'm glad we took the time to build these.

Except for those tomatoes all along the back row, the squash have all but taken over the 4 x 8 foot garden. The original pepper plants that were in the center, 2 of which remain but might get pulled up too, haven't done well at all anyway thanks to constant attacks by aphids.

And here's the original Tomato in a Bag, still hanging in there, growing taller, and it actually has a few blossoms on it! Considering I planted it back at the end of April, that took awhile didn't it? Hey, I'm just happy that it's alive. And yes, that is another tomato plant you see on the other side, replacing the one that I drowned.

The original Tomato in a Bag even has some baby tomatoes starting to show up!

And, on the other side of the original tomato in a bag, I ran across what I think is an heirloom tomato, called Mr. Stripey, so I bought it! This is what Mr. Stripey looks like at maturity, so I really hope I end up with a few.

So here's a close-up of Mr. Stripey on the other side of the Tomato in a Bag. No buds or tomatoes showing yet, but I'm keepin' my fingers crossed.

And, yeah, I went and did it. After I broke that last tomato in the Topsy Turvy, I know I said that I wasn't gonna try another. But the Mr. Stripey plant had a volunteer so I split him and put one of them in the Tomato in a Bag and the other in the Topsy Turvy.

Well, that's it for the veggie garden update. Hopefully soon I'll be reporting on some mature tomatoes!

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Tomato in a Bag Update

I swear - it feels like it's about 1000% humidity outside right now.

Remember when you were wishing your winter would end already and spring would come so you could plant? And you were in envy of those of us in the south for having an early spring and a long planting season?

Well, it is HOT down here in the Deep South. Already.

And, this is why the garden kind of craps out fast down south - you can barely stand being outside long so the plants get a bit neglected and suffer. Hey, it's me or them! It's a lot of work to keep plants happy and healthy down here with the heat and it comes quick, way before summer officially starts. Ugh.

I told y'all it wouldn't be long before you started hearing me whine about the heat! ;)

Anyhoo... thought I would catch y'all up on my Tomato in a Bag experiment.

If you're a regular reader, you'll recall that I put in brand new, raised bed, square foot vegetable gardens this year and I had some leftover tomato plants that had been sitting in one of those cheapo plastic cell packs for several weeks being neglected because I had no space for them. Well, I happened to also have a bag of Black Kow composted cow manure left and decided to experiment with planting 2 of those tomato plants in a bag of Black Kow.

Now neither plant was very healthy by this time, and I lost one of them pretty quick, though the other one seemed to be hanging on. I was also trying out the Topsy Turvy Upside Down Planter at the same time, so I picked up a couple of new tomatoes and planted one of them in the other side of the Black Kow bag. A "do-over" so to speak.

Well, that second plant also died, I'm pretty sure from root rot due to overwatering {see "The Ugly No. 2"} Apparently the Black Kow composted manure holds moisture pretty long and I was watering this plant the same as I was watering the raised beds. Yep. I murdered it.

But ... surprisingly, the original unhealthy tomato on the other side was still hanging in there. It was scrawny, with only a couple of leaves, and real tall and leggy, but it was alive!

As of today, I have not put another tomato plant on the other side of the bag, but that very first, original tomato plant - the one that looked so awful in the beginning - is not only alive, but {so far} making a come-back! That's it in the picture above taken this morning.

I kinda hesitated on giving an update to be honest, because it seems that every time I do, whatever I reported on goes south! But, it is what it is and as of this morning, this one - the original one I planted in the bag - is looking good, is bushing out a bit {and that is with clipping some of the leaves thanks to leaf miners that seem to have taken over my veggie garden} and actually has a couple of blossom buds popping up finally!

So far, so good, but I'll sure keep y'all posted as we go!

Monday, May 18, 2009

Vegetable Garden Update - 2 Month Report: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Crookneck Squash

Well, my veggie gardens are officially 2 months along now, so it's time for an update! And, as promised - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - in all its glory. (Check out the 3 month update here.)

As far as the raised bed, square foot gardens, this is what they looked like last night.

No, I'm not the crazy lady down the street!

But we did have a cold front come through that not only finally brought us beaucoup rain, but crazy winds, and a big ole drop in temperatures. Last night, tonight, and tomorrow night, temps will dip down into the 50s, and rise back up to the high 70s and low 80s during the day. Last week, we were running in the high 80's and with extremely high humidity, making it feel like mid-90s. All that to say, with that much fluctuation in temperatures, I was concerned about blossom drop on my veggies, all of which pretty much have blossoms right now, so I went out and gave them all a blanket hoping that they would stay warm enough so that I don't have blossom drop. Will have to repeat this for the next couple of nights.

This is actually only my 3rd season of really semi-seriously giving this gardening thing a go - both for veggies and for flowers. For years, when I was working full time, I just stuck some vegetable plants in the ground and didn't really have time to tend to them or baby them like now, so I never had much of a bounty as the bugs and critters always got the best of it.

So.... here we go!

The Ugly No. 1: My poor Topsy Turvy planter.

After I replanted it with a healthy tomato plant, it was doin' great, and then...

...I dropped it. And I broke it.

After all that rain, and with it hanging on the outside of the eave, well it got a good heavy watering. And, apparently it got so heavy from the water that it had bent the nail it was hanging on, and it must've just been teetering there when I touched the planter to turn it and look at the plant...

...and it fell off the nail. I tried to catch it, but it landed plant down in my hands, and broke off the tomato plant right at the stem. Funny thing is, when I was out there covering all of those plants last night, I looked up at the planter and thought it might be a good idea to take it down, but I knew it was heavy and full of water and didn't know where I was gonna hang it, so I didn't take it down. Should have trusted my instincts.

Well, I think that's likely the end of my Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter experiment. It's not the planter's fault - just my dumb luck. First, I drown the first plant right off by giving it too much water and the wrong kind of fertilizer and now this, so I can't rightly give an opinion on its performance. I have, however, seen lots of people using this method with both the Topsy Turvy planter and homemade planters across the internet, so if you're curious about them, just give it a try!

The Ugly No. 2 - my Tomato in a Bag.

Well, the first tomatoes that I tried in the bag of Black Kow weren't very healthy to begin with because they were leftover from my raised bed plantings and had been sitting in a partially empty plastic cell pack for weeks. I lost one of them pretty quick. So I bought a new, healthy plant to give it fair try.

Well, this one, it seems, I drowned by over-watering.

Apparently the composted manure holds water pretty well, so all the times I was watering the other plants in the raised bed, I should have been checking the soil in the bag, and not just watering it! Yeah, I killed it. Apparently I do not have my Grandma Mac's green thumb.

But, the good news is, the original unhealthy tomato I planted on the other side of the bag is {so far} hanging in there, and except for those pesky leaf miners, seems to be doin' okay.

Now ... on to the raised bed, square foot gardens.

Here are some pictures of all of the gardens as of this morning after I uncovered them. Besides the growth of some of the plants, you'll notice there are a few things, well, let's just say, different from when I started.

Bed No. 1 - 4' x 4' Left hand back side has 2 Big Beef tomato plants, plus there is a planter in the back that has the Roma in it. In the back far right is a cucumber plant - I lost one to over-watering, I'm pretty sure. In the row in front of that, marigolds, eggplant and two pepper plants. You'll hear more about those in a minute. The next 2 rows aren't much like I started at all. I added stuff, moved stuff, started stuff over. But right now, back to front, are cilantro, dill, chives, jalapeno pepper, then basil, oregano, rosemary, thyme. And on the ground on the left hand side in a small planter, mint. I've heard that mint will take over a garden pretty fast so it's best to grow in a container. For once, I listened.

Bed No. 2 - 4' x 4' There are 2 Big Beef tomato plants on the left hand back side and a Bush Goliath in a planter behind this bed. Cantaloupe on the right hand back side and some peppers in front of that. Newly planted beans are in the front 4 center squares and the one to the far right front. Yes, it's a re-plant - more about that later. Right behind the marigolds I just planted some lavender seeds, because I moved the cilantro that was planted there over to Bed No. 1. I have no idea if lavender is a good plant to intermix with vegetable plants, but I was going through seed, ran across them and thought I'd see if any came up.

Bed No. 3 - 4' x 8' Back row is all Better Boy tomatoes plus there is a small planter to the side that has another Big Beef tomato plant in it, and a planter behind it that has a cucumber plant in it. The two large plants centered on both sides are crookneck squash, and beside the marigolds there are some green bell pepper plants scattered in there too.



Okay, now on to The Bad - my mistakes.

The Bad No. 1: Not following the author of All New Square Foot Gardening, Mel's Bartholomew's, exact soil formula.

Especially in relation to vermiculite, but also not using enough different sources of compost, both of which would have helped with moisture retention. I couldn't find any vermiculite in the large sized bags I needed, and since the Jungle Growth had some in it, I thought it would be enough. But after that initial period of rain we got, we went over a month with no rain at all and I found my beds drying out quick so that I was watering daily for awhile there and on a couple of those really hot, humid days, twice a day! That's just too much. Of course some of that was over-watering - more on that later. But, I think that it would have helped a lot to have added the vermiculite as recommended.

There is some good in the bad here in that Hub's accidentally picked up the wrong kind of Jungle Growth when I sent him back for some new bags for flower gardening, and it ended up being Jungle Growth Water Wise - containing extra sources for water retention. I top-dressed all of the raised bed plants with this and it really seems to have helped.

The Bad No. 2. Not separating the bean seedlings when they came up.

I planted bush green beans in the front and middle 4 squares of Bed #2, putting 2 bean seeds into each of the 9 holes so that I would have enough plants come up. Well, just about every one of those beans sprouted, but I never got around to thinning them out. Big mistake. By May 1st, they looked like this.

Highly overcrowded themselves - making them an easy prey and a great hiding place for bugs - and crowding out all of the other plants around them so that they weren't getting enough sun, I tried to first pull them together with string to kind of rope them in a bit. That really didn't work well, so then I tried to separate them and thin them out at this stage. Big mistake. Thinning them didn't work out well at all and just when I was starting to get beans, I ended up getting frustrated and pulling every single plant up, and they all went to the compost pile. And I started over. And I wanted to cry.

And yes, those branches with stickers on them? They're in there on purpose. But that's another post I need to finish so more on that another day!

The Bad No. 3.
Accidentally grabbing the Dawn dishwashing soap when I did the second soap spray treatment on the eggplant and peppers for aphids.

I wasn't thinking - or in reality, probably thinking of too many things at once - and I grabbed the Dawn instead of the generic, lemon scented stuff I used the first time. If you wait about an hour after spraying, you can then rinse the plants off, but like the first time I just sprayed the plants down and didn't rinse them. Again, my instincts told me I should go grab the hose, but I did this in the evening, so I didn't think that sunburn or scald would be an issue by the time morning rolled around, so I didn't rinse them off. Sure wish I had because when I sprayed everything, they looked like this. Looks nice huh?

But then, by the next day and the day after, the plants started looking like this.

The Bad No. 4. Not giving my seedlings a thorough inspection when I purchased them and not catching the aphids quick enough.

Of all the bugs I've had to deal with in my three years of trial veggie gardening, I don't think I have ever had aphids, so I am convinced that I carried them home on the plants I bought. By the time I noticed them, my plants were infested, and while I've been treating them and it's working, the damage was done. The leaves are all curled up. The plants are stunted. They aren't budding up as they should be. I seriously am considering pulling them all up and replanting.

The Bad No. 5. Assuming that wilting in the pepper plants was a need for water.

Apparently pest damage from aphids to the peppers was what was making the pepper plants look wilted all the time and not a need for water. Logically I saw that the rest of the plants seemed fine, but in my mind I associated wilting with a need for water, not aphids. So I kept watering the darned plants. I lost one cucumber as a result of this over-watering, and the poor pepper plants, already suffering from the aphids and the Dawn soap scalding, were now dropping perfectly fine, green and healthy leaves from yep, being over-watered!!

Well ... despite all that, there has been some good! So, I guess you can say I've saved the best for last.

The Good No. 1: Sticking with the square foot guidelines for bush squash plants, despite the fact that it takes up most of your bed.

If you question why so many squares, just have a look at this picture. Closest to you is actually the back - that's all tomatoes, but those plants in the center of all of those blank spaces are the squash when I first planted them. Seems such a waste of space, doesn't it?

Until you see this picture. Those huge plants are the squash plants 2 months later. As you see, it has grown significantly and pretty much is already taking up all 9 of those squares that were reserved for it. It's doing pretty good so far, though I did see a squash borer eyeing it up one day when I was outside. I angrily swung at it with my flip flop, hit it and sent it sailing through the air and didn't see it again. I'm hoping I won't be seeing problems with this pest but I'm trying to keep an eye out for them for sure.

The Good No. 2. Not planting the watermelon in a raised bed.

Instead I did it in a pot, using a broken tomato cage that I clipped the top part off of, so that the watermelon could grow up the cage, over it, and out of the pot, just to sort of lift it up and out of the dirt. As the plant began to grow, I laid down a square of newspapers on the ground that I then topped with landscape fabric and secured with garden staples. I cut a wooden stake in half to set up under the planter just to lift it off of the ground a bit. That way, if any water accumulated, the pot would not be sitting in the water. The plant has plenty of room to sprawl, and I didn't have to set up an entire raised bed with all of that soil to grow it in. I've never grown watermelon before, so if I manage to get even one melon from this plant without a pest attack, I will be thrilled.

The Good No. 3. Putting up the vertical frames.

So far anyway, I am LOVING these frames. The plants are so easy to train - every once in awhile when you go out to the garden, you just tuck the plants in and out of the nylon netting. Of course the true test will come as the plants begin to bear some heavy fruit - especially those cantaloupe. But right now this is far and above 1000% better than cages and staking and all that other mess I've tried before. And, once it's all over these can be removed and stored for next year, and supposedly, many years.

The Good No. 4: Seeing the fruit of your labor finally showing up.

The Good No. 5: Having garden buddies to admire and talk to.

The Good No. 6: Being able to walk out the back door of your house, and despite the mistakes and the failures and the do-overs, despite the seemingly never-ending battle of the bugs and mother nature, you, yes you, have grown a vegetable garden!



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