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Dec 30, 2015 12:03 PM CST
Name: Gina
(Zone 9a)
"Man does not live by bread alone..
Good morning Linda,

My goodness, you sound like you have your hands full!!

We have some raised beds here on our property. We just raise for personal consumption and sharing with family. I still consider myself a newbie gardener, although I have learned much over the two years that I've been growing. We grow the standards found in veggie gardens: beans, peas, lettuce, spinach, carrot, beets, etc. However, I am going to try my hand at Orka this year! I'll take any tips you might have on growing them!! I'm also trying Kohlrabi this year, too.

I've tried tomatillos and various peppers (sweet and hot) in the past, but neither provided much fruit. The tomatillos were beautiful and bushy but had empty papers while the pepper plants were destroyed by the tomato worms.

I think my timing may have been a bit off, though, as I didn't get those into the ground much before May. This year, I plan on getting the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant into containers in March. If my order comes in earlier, then they'll be going in once received. I'm refuse to put them in my raised beds due to the tomato worms, so with any luck, my front porch will do the trick. It has a western exposure. I heard Epsom salt sprayed on the leaves is a trick for the tomatoes in respects to added magnesium, is this true? I also learned about removing the sucklings last year. As always, I have high hopes!

Oh, and we may get to have a very "taste" harvest of asparagus this year. We put the bed in last year with one year roots. Any chance you have a non-commercial spring fertilizer for asparagus? I believe potash is the key for them... Potash (pot ash)... Could fire pit ashes really be a good substitute??

Because of all the wild cottontail, im going to give strong conderation to trying my luck with vertical gardening at some point.

Just for fun, here's a photo from a year ago...







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