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    Vegetable Garden Fails & Successes - GF Video

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 1 Comment

    My vegetable garden fails were pretty obvious this year, and in the video below we give you a garden tour. Watch the vid then read through our thoughts below.

    At least the sunflowers and the kale are growing!

    Garden Fail

    The garden heated up quickly this year and I found that any of the greens or mustards that I got as transplants bolted very quickly. I was surprised how quickly they did. Maybe those plants were already stressed in the plant pack trays and I couldn't do anything about it.

    Garden Fail

    My bed of salad greens, which is the shadiest bed in the yard, turned into weeds. I think the compost I got was full of weed seeds. Boom, a bed of weeds. I think I will use the string trimmer on this bed and then replant.

    Garden Fail

    The sunflowers are doing well. I even transplanted several from the other garden beds. They key to transplanting sunflowers is to dig out a large root ball and water them often after replanting. They also like fertilizer. I did sow the sunflower seed too early, so a lot of them did not germinate. But I re-seeded and that batch has taken off. I made sure to have the taller varieties in the back of the bed. It should be a good cutting garden soon.

    The sugar snap peas (watch our how to grow sugar snap peas video here) are doing well. They are just now browning out after a good season of producing lots of Labrador snacks. I tried the Sugar Anne variety with not great success. I really like the Super Sugar Snap peas. You learn how to build the trellises we use in a video here.

    Garden Fail

    Our string beans are just starting to flower. I really like the Rattlesnake Pole Beans I get from Fedco Seeds, or you can save your own string bean seeds. they don't get stringy or woody and can stay on the vine a few days after ripening. They are on the same kind of simple string trellis we use for the peas.

    What are your garden fails? Let me know below. Meantime some more cool posts are below.

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    1. Diane

      July 20, 2017 at 7:11 am

      My pumpkin plant grew from seed. It's GIMONGOUS and had lots of flowers. I even see bees go into the flowers.....but no fruit. Same thing with my zucchini plants. As for that matter, same thing with my pole beans Everything is lush with growth. But there's no fruit. No baby pumpkins, no zucchini, no beans.....Do I just need to wait til late August? I planted in late April/early May. HELP!

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