Help with my community garden- newbie
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My garden is full of problems - Newbie needs help.:-(
Comments (10)Relax a little - it's not that bad. Your tomatoes and corn look fine to me. Your squash has squash bugs, so get out there with some masking tape and use the sticky side to remove all the egg clusters you can locate - keep doing that until their numbers dwindle. Are the cucumber leaves getting dry and crunchy-brittle? If so, you may have cucumber beetles which can give them a virus that takes them down really quickly. Look for yellow beetles with black spots or stripes. If you see any email me and I will tell you how to trap those little boogers before all your plants die. They will also go for your squash so check really well for them because they are a problem. Welcome to mid-season insect infestations....See MoreHelp a newbie TX gardener plan a rose garden!
Comments (20)A VERY SPECIAL "THANK YOU" to all the forum members who helped me so much; I have gone completely out of my mind and will have a boatload of roses to plant this year. My new FINAL final list is as follows: Ducher Lyda Rose Gruss an Aachen Moonlight Clytemnestra Mystic Beauty Abraham Darby Mons. Tillier Robin Hood Baron Prevost Mrs. Dudley Cross Eutin Duchesse de Brabant SDLM Lovers Delite Frances Dubreiul Cornelia Buff Beauty Versigny Generosa Westerland Comtesse du Cayla G. Nabonnand and Nur Mahal are out of stock, but will be sent in the fall. Climbing Pinkie, MAC, Perle d'Or and Marie Daly have been in the ground for four years and are all thriving. It looks like I may finally have some roses in my garden! Thank you all again - you are wonderful....See MoreI need some help planning a community garden
Comments (1)There is nothing wrong with your idea. There will though as with any project be things that come up that will need attention such as I see a possible headache for you if a tenant decides to take back a plot that another is using our community garden does 10 x 10 foot plots and you may consider doing the same. Also you will need a couple compost bins and our garden and my home one is made of simple pallets. Will you provide a shed for tools? Will you have a hose for dry spells? Look for rules for a community garden and consider having a contract for use of your plots as neglected plots can become an eye sore that you will end up having to care for yourself. I am not trying to discourage you as it would be wonderful for you to allow gardening and it would only improve your land. You will also want to consider if you want to allow perennials as some are quite aggressive and will take over, run out of control and even can kill other plants. Mint is one that I would not plant again myself. If your not sure you may require special permission or avoid them all together....See MoreHelp Olin College students understand community gardens!
Comments (4)I have a community garden plot in Northern California. What I have been searching for and cannot find but I think would be a very useful tool in this setting is a hand cranked chipper or grinder to chop up plant matter at the end of their growing cycle. Now, I have to chop everything by hand for adding to my compost pile and it is a lot of work. I hardly ever have anything woody so it doesn't need to be like a heavy duty garden chipper but needs to grind up things like corn stalks or fava bean stalks which are both rather hard and stringy. Something battery operated would be nice as well..... I often think something like a garbage disposal could be adapted. Anyway, some kind of chopper or grinder that works without electricity or gas would be WONDERFUL...See Moregardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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