Nice look...I'm going to load mine up like yours and maybe the wife will let me park it in the front yard for the fall decorations.
As usual, great photo / lighting.
Looking back about may 20th. I worked on a pumpkin farm in high school they opened up the 2nd to last weekend of September.
Sorry to hear that. Did you work up a section of lawn by chance? Our garden was part of a field. I use to disc it but it packed down the soil so much. For me planting a cover crop and plowing really helped. Even just old leaves would help. A soil test might help you out too. You can do everything right but still have poor results. Like a real farmer says " maybe next year"I'm on my second attempt at a large garden this year and it's the second failure.
Last year I broke fresh ground on my 20x30 plot. Which wasn't easy using a small hand tiller, (thank god for the lx and the 3pt tiller). We tilled the ground and applied some allegedly veggie safe weed and feed. All but 4 plants kicked the bucket shortly after planting. It was dry, but we watered about every other day. At the end of the year we retilled and nothing grew back.
This year with a dead patch of dirt and a new 3pt tiller I went after it a little late in the season but added some generic fertilizer only. I tilled it into the dirt, waited a few weeks, watered the ground and retilled just before putting the plants in. Everything was healthy and happy for about two weeks before out of nowhere the thickest weeds and grass you'd ever seen jumped up overnight and choked everything out. Im talking over two feet high in less than a week. Pretty much had to leave it as I could no longer discern between my vegetables anymore. This years crop was harvested today, only 3 cherry tomatoes and some jalapeños.
So don't feel down about a small harvest, it could definitely be worse.
Better than me!I'm on my second attempt at a large garden this year and it's the second failure.
Last year I broke fresh ground on my 20x30 plot. Which wasn't easy using a small hand tiller, (thank god for the lx and the 3pt tiller). We tilled the ground and applied some allegedly veggie safe weed and feed. All but 4 plants kicked the bucket shortly after planting. It was dry, but we watered about every other day. At the end of the year we retilled and nothing grew back.
This year with a dead patch of dirt and a new 3pt tiller I went after it a little late in the season but added some generic fertilizer only. I tilled it into the dirt, waited a few weeks, watered the ground and retilled just before putting the plants in. Everything was healthy and happy for about two weeks before out of nowhere the thickest weeds and grass you'd ever seen jumped up overnight and choked everything out. Im talking over two feet high in less than a week. Pretty much had to leave it as I could no longer discern between my vegetables anymore. This years crop was harvested today, only 3 cherry tomatoes and some jalapeños.
So don't feel down about a small harvest, it could definitely be worse.
It was a couple years ago. Since I initially tilled it last year there hasn't been any grass or weeds. Just what we planted. Then this year a couple months after planting it suddenly became over run. We'll try again next year.
Been there. Got starlink earlier this year. Dug a trench with the kubota to just quickly and temporarily bury the wire till I do a permanent installation. Only about 6" down. My gutters empty into the ground. I hit the drainage tile and tore out a 60" (the size of the bucket) section as apparently whomever installed it didn't think it needed to be deeper.
