Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I wanted to share a few more photos from the garden!
Deck Garden Journal Week 3
The garden that we've got going on our deck is coming along nicely! We've had a really nice bit of hot weather lately, so it requires quite a bit of watering the plants but they are growing at incredible rates.
One of the things that I learned that seems to help quite a bit with the garden is not just watering the roots, but watering the whole plant. It makes a lot of sense when you think about it, the roots do suck up the water and provide it to the main stem of the plant, but by the time the water reaches the very ends of it, there is likely very little to go around. By watering the roots as well as all of the various branches of the plant, we've had a really great amount of growth and success! I think that's definitely a wonderful life lesson for me.
We added some more plants to the mix as well! We got a Roma tomato plant, one of my wife's favorite varieties of tomatoes. I'm not an incredible fan of them but I don't mind at all adding some stuff for her so that she can enjoy the fruits of the garden as well. The key to these tomato plants is to give them a really good amount of fertilizer!
In the garden that we had a few years ago, I wasn't using the right fertilizer and I also wasn't fertilizing them often enough. The bag that we've got says we only need to fertilize them every 6-8 weeks but I just decrease the amount of fertilizer and fertilize them every 2 weeks for maximum growth.
In the few weeks that we've had the potted garden, doing it in this way has helped out a decent amount to give us consistent growth spread across the time. We've now got several dozen cherry tomatoes growing, with more sprouting up every few days it looks like! This gives us a LOT of fruits, and I think the secret sauce for these plants is the mixture of watering the entire plant as well as adding the fertilizer more frequently, but lesser amounts, than the packaging recommends.
Hell, I may even be poisoning the plants or something lol but I don't think so! The biggest tomato plant had quite a few yellowing leaves on it after a week or so being on the deck but that was before I was watering the whole thing. Since I started watering the whole thing, the yellowing has completely stopped. It hasn't gone away, which makes me believe that it's a little damaged but it's recovering! It's also providing fruit like mad!
The wonderful thing as well is that we've got a hell of a lot of peppers sprouting up! The pepper crop that we've got is absolutely going to be one of the highlights of the year. We started the peppers at the right time for sure, not too early but also not too late. They are growing steadily and we've got a big one that's a week or so away from being big enough to pick. With these peppers, we are waiting for them to start to turn to their true color. On the little information card we have, it says that these are going to be yellow or whitish/yellow. It will be interesting to see what color they end up being!
Some of the plants have gotten pissed because we aren't watering them enough for their desires, it seems and are starting to flower. Some of them I have just let them continue to flower, so that I can give the pollinators a little bit of a treat!
The basil plant is certainly one of the most difficult plants to keep happy haha. It requires quite a bit of water and if we are an hour or two late on watering it, it will start to wither and get pissed, going to flower. I have to constantly pick off the flowers on the plants that we want to keep growing leaves!
-CmplXty. Real human written content, never AI. All pictures are mine unless otherwise stated
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You beautifully captured the growth of the plants in your deck garden.😊 Yeah, it needs extra care to produce well.😊
Thanks yeah the garden is wonderful and we are almost ready for our first harvest of the pepper!
I'm sure you are all excited about it.😃
Your potted garden is incredible. Consistent care really seems to be paying off for you. Keep up the good work man and enjoy the bounty! 🌱🍅🌶️
Thanks! I think having the right blend of fertilizer is important for these pots. They don’t get the extra benefits of the soil in the ground with everything else so we have to provide it all. Doing more than the requested amount I think is doing really well. I will have to get this same bag of fertilizer next year!
Yeah, you are very correct friend. I will be expecting to see more of this and how productive more it will be.
In my mind, I have always thought when it rains it pours...
Seriously tho. Rain has nitrates and soaks the whole plant from the top down. Therefore I have always tried to imitate the rain when doing manual watering.
TOPDOWN
Not just something you do with your girl...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJmi9HvhhhM&list=OLAK5uy_kKcLeNFwb2_fMM0UyNrdAYxjAveBYQsXM&index=7&pp=8AUB
Hahah not expecting that
Yeah that makes a lot of sense! The rain doesn’t hit just one part of the plant it does the whole thing. I didn’t think of it that way, thanks dude!
These garden pictures are really nice 🙂
Thanks, it's coming along that's for sure!
Ohhh
They're getting along quite nice!!✨
Yeah they are now that I'm doing a better job watering them!
Are there truly varieties of tomatoes?
I only know that there are some that are round and there are some that looks like an oval shape
Are those the varieties?
There are a LOT of varieties of tomatoes that's for sure. We don't even have a fraction of the amount here. We stick to cherry, Roma and medium ones like the one we've got that I don't know the name of.
Just like blueberries, there are 74 different species of blueberries!
The pepper seems very spicy, the seeds look very good and grow with stunning colors.
Thankfully these are not spicy peppers but we shall see in a few days how they taste. One of them should be ripe soon.