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My garden is out of control
I have learned a very important lesson this year - plant the plants further
apart!! My pumpkins have taken over everything within 15 feet. I have beans I can't get at to harvest. I have tomatillos that are huge, I had no idea they would get so big! http://zootal.no-ip.info/stuff/2006%...s/DSCF4180.jpg This is a typical shot. You can see a pumpkin bursting out of the corn, and another one taking up what used to be a pathway I used to be able to use to walk through the garden. http://zootal.no-ip.info/stuff/2006%...s/DSCF4137.jpg With this shot, if you look to the upper right you see a mass of tomatoes. The pic doesn't show it very well, but it's about 8 plants growing in a huge mass that I can't hardly get around. I cut the suckers when I can, and am just letting it grow. Suckers pop up out of the middle from somewhere down inside, I have no idea where they come from lol. I don't know what to do with it but just let it grow. The center is a row of squash that is doing quite well. I thought I was wasting space with the wide path to the left - now I can hardly walk through it. http://zootal.no-ip.info/stuff/2006%...s/DSCF4108.jpg This is what happens when you throw sunflower seeds into the garden. I cut out most of them because nothing else wround them was getting any sun. So - lesson learned. Wider rows. Give pumpkins a *lot* of room. Plant tomatoes further apart. And space tomatillos ... maybe 3 feet apart?, mine are just huge and have crowded out nearby tomatoes and peppers. |
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