I was so proud of this garden when we put it in only 2 months ago. I now look at it and realize we are woefully under developed. There are also some concerns about the size of our plants and produce. Our harvest has been pretty meager as well. Fortunately there are between 2 and 3 growing seasons in this part of the world. We are now planning our fall garden which will include many frost resistant vegetables that should produce through the winter. Things like cabbage, collards, carrots, and potatoes. Our fall garden will be made up mostly of Pinto beans, corn, winter squash, red potatoes, carrots, lettuce, onions, and tomatoes that we will protect with plastic when the frosts come.
We have had some successes with our summer garden. We had several bugs and some diseases that invaded us and killed some plants. We had the blight affect our tomatoes to the extent that we thought we might lose the crop. Rachel finally determined that tea tree oil might kill the blight and in fact it did. We thought that was a major victory considering our 80 year old neighbor who has had gardens every year since the forties said "once the blight always the blight". Rachel mixed 1t tea tree oil, .25t oregano oil into a gallon of water and used as a foliar spray. We also noticed the bugs diminished greatly.
Until next time.
Chris
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