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My main native garden

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Painted lady butterfly
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Rattlesnake master
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Purple coneflower & Wild bergamot
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@Esther Knapicius I was just looking through this thread and came across your post number #50 on page 3. I like the plant in the second image from the bottom, is it a Hydrangea please and if so do you know the variety?
 
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192 potato plants are 3 ft tall now. I put a 15" tall fence around the plants to try to prevent plants from falling over into the walk area. Onions are about 3 ft tall also many of them hare falling over. Corn & beans are starting come up. Tomato plants are 3 ft tall. I have replaced 20 melons 3 times and still have only 3 plants. Pepper plants are 8" tall they don't like this cold wet weather. We have picked 2 gallons of strawberries from our plants so far. We have eaten 2 broccoli plants and have 3 more ready to eat. 61°f this morning and 55° forecast for the next 3 mornings. Rain every day and every night.


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About 1 month later. 300 corn plants are taller. 120 strawberry plants have produced about 5 gallons berries. I harvested garlic yesterday it is not a good year for garlic. We had 85°f weather in Feb and 81°f weather in March, that tricked garlic & onions into thinking it is summer. About 20 of the 100 garlic are good. About 150 of the 400 onions are good. 190 potatoes plant look good so far. Red onions are all bolting but we will have saved seeds. I replanted melons 5 times then bought new seeds and planted melons again.
At the moment we have about 4 watermelons plants and 4 cantaloupe plants. The other strawberry plants are still growing ripe berries and growing lots of runners. 2000 Zinnia plants started producing flowers today. Thai Basil, Rosemary, Mist, Celery are doing good. 1 Jalapeno, 4 Mexican Chili plants, 4 sweet pepper plants are very slowly growing taller. 17 tomato are loaded with green tomatoes.

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Wow you guys have some beatuful landscapes. Truely beautiful. Lots of great ideas and inspiration. Maybe my fruit forest photos will inspire others.

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Seeing all these pics of amazing gardens on here makes me say to myself yep... No way in heck I'm posting a pic of mine 😂
 
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50 years ago I worked hard 2 hours every day in my garden. Now I seldom work 5 minutes a day in the garden. It took 50 years to learn how to do an almost no maintenance garden. Once everything is planted there is 2 months of waiting to harvest day. I have 65 day crops, 90 day crops, 120 day crops. Harvest day is more work than the garden. I learned how to not have many weeds and grass. I never spray toxic poison for weeds or bugs. I learned not to have raised beds. I do ground level beds 3 rows of green beans spaced 18"between rows takes up less garden space than the old way 32" between rows. 3 rows of potatoes side by side also takes up less space than the old way 32" between rows. Strawberry beds are 32" wide 32 ft long with 380 plants. Tomato and pepper plants 18" between plants. Corn 5" seed spacing and 32"row spacing. 500 carrot seeds in a 10 gallon pot. Onion bed 32" by 32ft, 7 rows 4" between rows, 4" between each onion, 450 onions plants. Garlic bed is 100 plants. 3 rows of green beans, 18" between rows, 3" between seeds. Melons & cantaloupe 12" between seeds 20 seeds in a row, rake vines in a circle, melon bed is 8 ft wide 32 ft long. I get a lot of vegetables in a very small space. Never water the walk area. Only water vegetable plants. 3 rows of potatoes 32" long gets 120 gallons of water every time soil gets dry, about every 4 days. Water is low cost is cost me 61 cents for 120 gallons of water. Never try to kill very tiny weeds let them grow larger they are easier to kill. Keep hoe & shovel razor sharp on 3 edges, be careful never forget how razor sharp they are. Learn that each plants likes its own type fertilizer and certain amount of water and several plants need calcium for BER and certain plants are bug magnets that attract bugs to the whole garden. Every geographical location has its own, weather, soil, bugs, problems.
 

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