This was only my second year gardening, and first year with my own yard 😤 Everything is in containers. I struggled a lot with figuring out a good place to put containers that got enough sunlight. I was trying to avoid the front yard because I was worried about car exhaust and grossness getting onto veggies, but when I finally caved and moved everything to the front it started growing much much better. Lots of things also got chomped by deer and groundhogs in the backyard. I had hoped that big containers would keep the groundhogs out but I caught one climbing up onto the top and eating all the seedlings. Lots of failures, lots of dead plants. I tried to plant some native flowers in the backyard hoping to get them to spread to the empty lot behind us, but no success. A lot of seeds got eaten by birds.
I had better luck with both veggie and flower starts that I bought from the local farmer’s market. I was SO CLOSE to getting sunflowers, the flower heads were coming out but then we had a big windy thunderstorm that knocked them over and they got all crispy after :( My only harvest this year are a couple of jalapeno peppers. I didn’t start anything indoors this year, but I definitely see the value in it now and I’m hoping to get a rack with grow lights set up over the winter.
What about you guys??
My hops don’t like being transplanted from the ground into a (very large) pot. Next year we’ll try to burry the pot, see how it goes.
Haha, I have hops and they are like cancer. I am never going to get rid of them, every time I dig a bunch of them up they send new shoots up all over the place. It’s worse than ivy.
Ivy’s very well implanted in my backyard from previous owners. It adds lots of green to an otherwise small fenced backyard.
I brought the hops when I moved in, and so far it hasn’t been able to take over… I’m keeping it contained as much as I can, thus the reason why it’s in a pot!
We’ll see how it goes next year.
Haha, I have hops and they are like cancer. I am never going to get rid of them, every time I dig a bunch of them up they send new shoots up all over the place. It’s worse than ivy.