My not so good square foot garden update.
As you will see from my previous post on: Square Foot Garden, I was really excited about this experiment.
Now, I really don’t know where to begin on how this went wrong, other than the plants being in containers that are most likely too shallow. I saw a video of how a guy did his this way and his was lush and producing. As you can see, mine is just the opposite. We have harvested two tomatoes that were delicious and a few cherry tomatoes and a couple of sprigs of cilantro but that is it. It makes me sad when I consider how much attention this little plot has received with nothing in return. My one lonely cherry tomato lol.
Just like the other square foot garden people, we used the expensive organic soil with worm castings mixed in. I have also used organic fertilizer to no avail. This sad puppy does get water every day in case you are wondering.
This has definitely been a learning experience. I have always been able to grow vegetables in the ground but obviously not plastic crates.
These are my sad cucumbers. They look dead at the bottom but healthy at the top? Not one cucumber. The buds die and drop off. Sigh…..
The only word to describe my squash and eggplant is “Horrid.” The bell peppers came with mixed up variety stickers. The reason these have not been picked is because I wasn’t sure if they were turning yellow (the sticker said they were yellow) lol. I have never grown anything other than green bell peppers so I didn’t know what to expect. Now I know that these are tiny green ones that should have been picked. Sigh…
I am sorry that I took this picture with out weed eating the grass around it but hey, this picture describes how I feel about my square foot garden.
They only thing healthy in the garden is the okra so far. The basil is looking pretty good (not in this picture). The unproductive tomatoes, cucumbers & squash makes me sad.
This is where I got the idea to try the crates http://youtu.be/EeKufjx1GZ8