'How Does Your Garden Grow' thread - raised beds

[gary350]

305 lbs. of new Kennebec white potatoes from a 90 ft row of seed potatoes.

 

[nsaspook]

Out of control.

 

[nsaspook]

Nothing like a fresh picked tomato.

 

[DaveC426913]

We got a bunch of cherry tomatoes, a couple of squashes and eggplants, but the tomatoes - despite the plants growing wildly out of the beds - have delivered little more than cherry tomato-sized tomatoes so far.

Not sure if it's because of the hot season, or poor soil or my expectations are high.

 

[BillTre]

We got a bunch of cherry tomatoes, a couple of squashes and eggplants, but the tomatoes - despite the plants growing wildly out of the beds - have delivered little more than cherry tomato-sized tomatoes so far.

Not sure if it's because of the hot season, or poor soil or my expectations are high.

Do you water regularly?

 

[DaveC426913]

Do you water regularly?

I was, yes.

 

[nsaspook]

We got a bunch of cherry tomatoes, a couple of squashes and eggplants, but the tomatoes - despite the plants growing wildly out of the beds - have delivered little more than cherry tomato-sized tomatoes so far.

Not sure if it's because of the hot season, or poor soil or my expectations are high.

You need to prune the suckers.

 

[nsaspook]

This years crop.

 

[berkeman]

This years crop.

How do you keep critters from eating fruit/veggies in your barrels? I had to make an electric fence setup for my wife's barrels to keep the squirrels and mice out of them.

 

[OmCheeto]

How do you keep critters from eating fruit/veggies in your barrels? I had to make an electric fence setup for my wife's barrels to keep the squirrels and mice out of them.

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Set a dish of cat food outside every night. Eventually, you might attract a feral cat. I've been doing this for about 30 years now and have only seen 3 mice in that timeframe. About 3 months ago, one of the cats was out on my lawn munching on a squirrel, having just chewed it's head off. He seemed nonchalant about the whole thing. I on the other hand, almost threw up.

 

[BillTre]

I never had problems with mice or squirrels.
Maybe because of lots and cats in the neighborhood.
There are a fair number of mice, rats, possums, and racoons around.
Slugs and insects I have had problems with.
The solution I found was to entice wasps to build nests near my raised beds. They predated upon the little vermins which became a non-problem. The wasps never bothered me or anyone else.
By putting an aquarium on its end near the raised bed made a great place for they to make their nest.