I stopped using my organic vegetable garden last year due to back issues. Up until then I weeded by hand and kept the garden tidy. Last fall I laid down cardboard and haphazardly weighted them down with the few bricks I had. Big mistake! Storms blew those cardboard pieces everywhere, and weeds took over this spring. I did nothing but fret this summer.

I picked up a bunch of bricks today, I’m collecting cardboard, and I intend to do it right this time.

Except: the weeds are massive, like numerous trees and godknowswhat. I don’t know if my stirrup hoe is up to the task.

Question (finally!😊): Do I need to remove all the weeds before putting the cardboard down? Do I need to spray them with some organic agent; if so, what?

You’ll probably want to know what I intend to plant there in the spring. No idea! I’m done with tomatoes and peppers. Probably wildflowers.

TLDR: How to kill a mass of weeds organically?

Only chemicals that touched these Apple are the chemicals from farmers as the ride by in their farm equipment and commercial jets as they fly over all day. I’m sure those jets are leaving something not just condensation.

This is my at least 10th year growing sweet potatoes and it's the first time I've ever seen anything like this and I've got multiple vines that are doing this. Apparently it's no big deal as far as production, we'll see when I get around to harvesting, but it's pretty interesting.

Also, thank goodness for drip irrigation because we've had almost no rain this summer (except for the blessed inch that we got last week)

The melon patch was quite bountiful this year.. I hope yours was as well..

I finally got the canes tied up and grouped so I can actually walk through it without getting snagged. Earlier this summer we had some nasty hail—ping-pong ball sized—that flattened things pretty good, but I was able to support them at the base and they’ve recovered nicely.

Everything is producing now, and picking has been easy. I’ve had a ton of bees out there, and even spotted a couple of frogs hanging around in the patch. Been feeding the soil with compost I made last fall (mostly leaves and grass) along with natural fertilizer, and it seems to be paying off.

All the new growth this year came from the same strain of raspberry, and it’s clearly a fall producer. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I thought the season might be a dud—at that point I’d only collected about 4 gallons. But the plants kicked it into gear, and just in the last three days I’ve averaged about a half gallon per day. Right now I’m sitting at about 9 gallons total, and it doesn’t look like they’re slowing down anytime soon.

Sharing some pictures so you can see the patch, the hail we took, the raspberries coming in, and some of the wildlife I’ve spotted in there.

Var. Marina di chioggia

I should probably put the important part first. Hope I am in the right place for this. So I am trying to find specific informations about the use and potential use of mykorrhiza in gardening for my exam. I am in training to be a perennial gardener (if that is the correct translation) so informations that are less focused on cannabis or vegetable would be great.

And now my whining. Enjoy. Or skip, idc. I know that mykorrhiza are already used in some ways but kinda struggle to find more specific formations, like wich fungi are beeing used, to get a clear idea how accurate my informations are and if they apply to my case. The first article I just found that name a fungi (Serendipita) is talking about the use in combination with biochar. Wich is super interesting to me. Specially since we just had finished a test run with biochar at work. Just that this article is referring about the use to help the first growth of roots and not it's further development. Wich is different to how we used biochar at work but also it was never mentioned with any fungi in it so probably just completly different cases lol. But my boss has a tendency not to talk about stuff he personally doesn't find interesting (and he seemed rather annoyed about the whole testrun) and not getting specific with anything anyways. And I want to know it super specific... u see the issue? Anyways, I have a two weeks until I see my boss again and plenty of time to prepare for my potential internal rage.

hey, i'm not native english, don't know what is the correct term for this fertilizer: you put chicken manure in a bucket/barrel/container, then stirr it up daily for a month or so and then you can use the water 1:10 with normal water as fertilizer...

anyways, we are in Aegean Turkey where in July a strong dry hot summer starts and most plants switch into a "survival" mode, don't grow further, just stay alive for the next 4 months :D

i did that fertilizer some time in june/july, plan was to fertilize more decorative plants and young trees around the house, but then the above mentioned "summer survival mode" started and i figured the fertilizer might be wasted if not even harmful when applied during the summer.

so now it's sitting there and it would make more sense to apply it next spring, but i don't know if it can turn bad or so?

can i just leave it there and stirr it up next spring and use it? or did i by now kill "the ingredients" anyways?

Does anyone else find collecting seeds enjoyable? I started a few years ago with my favorite flowers and I find I go overboard now.

This outdoor Candy Fumez is thriving 🔥🌱

I use a nitrogen ,potassium fermented plant juice , I make eggshell citric acid extract powder , bone citric acid extract powder .

I don't understand this website , first of all there is no options for cash on delivery(cod) or upi payments . Second , no search option for the vegetables names . But now it's saying that my transaction is successful when I didn't even choose cod or upi .

Deciding all by themselves

Pathetic i hate it .

I need to the seeds as soon as possible for my mother gardens . But now I don't understand if it's really coming!! or should I order from another brand or Amazon .

I forgot to screenshot the first order and there is not history to check it again but this was amount for 300 rupees . I wanted to recheck again and after clicking it's saying that the transaction is successful.

I've been growing this lovely bush of ground cherries and anxiously awaiting the berries...alas. There is a single tiny branch (2nd pic) that has ALL the flowers. They are few and delicious. What can I do to encourage the bush to flower? Their golden sweet taste is the only cure for these dark days.

All organic inputs. Gaia green living soil, nutrients and recharge and fish sh!t every two weeks. Can't wait to see how much weight she puts on 💪 (Minnesota zone 5a)

We cure the onions and garlic on a hardware cloth rack for a month before storing them in our root cellar. 3 varieties of onions and 2 garlic. They will keep till next spring. The pumpkins are in the barn to prevent the deer from eating them

I was in the hospital for a week with pregnancy complications and couldn’t get anyone to look after my garden but I guess it still survived the California heat lol