Every Summer we make a few GardenFork.TV shows about what’s happening in our yard. Here is our August Garden Tour where I espouse about my new gardening technique, Chaos Gardening . Plant what you want, watch what happens, adjust the next time.
Sprinkled throughout the show are MANY comments by the camera operator, mainly about me. fun.
And we go thru our vegetable garden, and talk about our successes – string beans – and some not so great things like our squash crop. How is your garden doing? Any suggestions? let us know below
cecedon
August 18, 2010
Great garden, I love the way you just let things go. I have the same general idea, I see how things do and then move them (well I get my strongest neighbor to help me dig).
As for the vegetable garden, I’m seeing some of the same as you on the cucumbers, small little ones that just stopped growing. But overall my cucumber harvest has been fine.
I have a question though, I have a tomatillo plant that has grown quite large but has not produced one single fruit. It’s the strangest thing. Last year (with a pretty cold summer here in chicago) my tomatillo was one of my best growers and this year I’m thinking I should just pull it out now before it creates even more work for me. It’s baffling.
My tomato plants have all done pretty well, I have some leaf browning but it doesn’t seem to be affecting the final product. I only water with rain water (you’ll love this, I have a buried tank that collects my downspout water from my garage. In the tank I have a sump pump that I use to pump the water out into my garden. I don’t want my plants watered with city water if I can help it because the city water has fluoride and chlorine). I should have used your tomato cages idea, mine have failed (kind of) it’s quite a mess back there. Maybe I’ll make a video for you, think MUCH smaller scale than what you are working with. Oh and my pumpkin, it flowers out every morning but there isn’t a single fruit, it’s taken over the walkway and I’m thinking of pulling it, what’s the point if it doesn’t give me at least 1 pumpkin for the kids?
Margaret
November 2, 2010
You need at least two tomatillo plants to get any fruit. So if you only have one plant that is why no fruit is growing.