Beginner Gardener, I really need help or any advice with my problem.
I have recently started a small garden of which all my plants are in containers. I am growing 1 green bell pepper plant, 1 red bell pepper plant, 1 gourmet orange bell pepper plant, a ghost pepper plant, 1 Roma tomato plant, 6 cherry tomatoes, 1 yellow pear tomato plant. 1 sugar baby watermelon, 1 cantaloupe, 1 Italian Parsley, 1 peppermint, 6 crooked neck yellow squashes, 6 cucumber, 6 zucchini, 6 sweet corn, over 20 radishes, 6 onions, 1 tom thumb pea plant, 2 strawberries, 1 raspberry. I live in Phoenix Arizona and I know people who have grown all this here before but are unreachable for help. they are planet in my back yard up against the house my backyard is a east facing yard so that they don't get the hot afternoon son just the morning till about noon then they have shade. Well my concern and my problem is that my strawberries were extremely happy before I transplanted them into a deep above ground planter box about 20 inches deep and after a divider the Raspberry is planted in its own space but in the same planter box. My strawberry about 1-2 days after transplanted it started drying out on some of the tips of its leaves. They don't turn yellow first they start to shrivel and then brake like thin chips if touched. They are also very droopy. where before they were thriving. Also my raspberry in the same bed is doing the same thing it was about to start blooming before it was transplanted and now the really green thriving bush is all drying out every leaf is crumbling. I was watering everything once a day. because the heat dry's the soil out. also the top soil will be super dry but about an inch down its moist not very wet but you can see that its darker and a little moist is it not moist enough should I make sure that I keep watering daily due to them all being in containers. Each container is able to drain well. All my other plants are doing extremely well with the exception of my strawberries, raspberry and my pea plant that I will get to in a minute. The fertilizer I bought was Kelloggs brand called Patio Plus for ubove ground planters and container gardening for both flowers and vegetables it was recommended to me, but is it giving my raspberry and strawberry what they need or is it to harsh on them. Its nice because its an all natural fertilizer and 5.97 a bag so that I can afford it in large quantities. I haven't fed the garden yet. With the exception of my strawberries and the raspberry plant all the others were planted about 2 1/2 weeks ago and about 4 days for the strawberries and raspberry. I have since put up a shade cloth in front of the raspberry thinking it was getting to much sunlight. I would really appreciate and help I can get. This garden is making my husband and I so happy but we are heart broken at what has started happening. Now for the Pea plant its growing and blooming but the bottom of part of the plant started turning yellow about 2 days ago. (not enough water?)....... Thank you everyone in advance. I am going to try an upload photos below. - ........ I have also watered the plant itself I thought it would like its leaves wet, was that wrong?
RASPBERRY - Called a Indian Summer Raspberry
Can I save it or is it to late? :(
The shade cloth I put up
STRAWBERRIES
PEAS - Bottoms turning yellow
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Comments (11)My problem with the garden is every flower seems white. Need some color. The foliage looks nice. Flowers though to me are secondary to texture and foliage color, which in this garden is pretty good! I myself would not move the grass or sedge whatever it is. It makes the texture change. My garden is wild with overgrowth. It seems with perennials I'm always thinning them. Another suggestion is flower type, I don't see anything with spikes. You want different flower forms. Maybe a daisy form flower too. Irises etc. If you like the white look fine, but I myself would add silvers or silver foliage, or pastels would look great! Another consideration is early, mid, and late flowering plants. So it looks good all season. I myself am still experimenting, I doubt I will ever actually ever finish but keep changes things. Plus the fun of growing new plants. I have a flair for the unusual. My porch is full of tropical's, trees and plants like Pony Tail palm, Yucca tree, night blooming jasmine, etc. I have bamboo and cacti in the ground too. Some forms are winter hardy. It doesn't look typical! It looks eccentric, but I'm very much so! Mostly though I grow edibles and I'm into edible landscapes. I want to grow as many ornamental edibles as possible besides your normal garden. So edible dogwoods, June berries like Autumn Brilliance. Red leafed peach trees Weeping plum trees. A currant cordon on the fence, I like edible vines like Eastern Magnolia. Edible wild flowers are in the garden too. Strawberry and raspberry ground covers are next to be put in. Yes some raspberries are ground covers. I also grow regular raspberries too, I have 15 plants. I get 25-50 berries daily for 4 months. I have Pluots, and a Spice Zee Nectaplum. Indian Free peach that Thomas Jefferson grew. It is pretty much a jungle here! Many plants are small give me a few years, and I will show photos. It's still under construction. This post was edited by Drew51 on Thu, Oct 10, 13 at 10:09...See MoreBeginner Needs Help: What Is My Gardening Region (Not Zone)?
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