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Re: "How is everyone’s gardening going? I started gardening this..."

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@s5 We grow our potatoes in buckets and it usually works out great! It makes harvesting them a lot easier too, you just dump out the buckets and then pick the potatoes out of the dirt instead of having to dig anything up.

🍄 Ruby_Witch

2023-08-26 · 1 year ago

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🙂 s5 [OP] · 2023-08-26 at 17:56:

I think I will be trying that next year then 👍

🐝 Addison · 2023-08-26 at 18:51:

I abandoned our garden plot, sadly. Between the dense clay soil and the weeds (hyperaggressive sunflowers??) our squash and beans have struggled. The corn was doing fine, but I stopped watering em since the other stuff was a lost cause.

I did pick a ton of the wild chamomile that overtook much of the plot though! Next year I'll be using mulch and starting with seedlings. 😅

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How is everyone’s gardening going? I started gardening this year, mostly as an experiment to find out what I could grow. I planted peas, which were successful although next year I plan to plant a lot more of them, as I only planted about 7 plants. I also planted onion seeds which came to nothing, carrots which are still growing, but I made the mistake of being slightly too greedy and not spacing them out enough or thinning them, so they’re a mixed bag which some slightly undersized carrots and...

💬 s5 · 7 comments · 1 like · 2023-08-25 · 1 year ago