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10 things I learned about gardening that I am sure I will forget by next year

as I happily tore my garden up yesterday with the tractor (because I am so over it this year) I thought of all the things I learned this year that I will carry onto next year. Ok, so I will forget them, no one is perfect.

1. Don't plant things people won't eat but you.
cantaloup. Every year I plant it and it has never grown delicious, but yet I still plant it. Even if it was delicious, I am the only one who eats it and I never eat it fast enough.

2. I am allergic to weeding.
I hate weeding and I just don't have the time to keep up with it. What I need to do is what my neighbor does and put down weed barrier.

3. Put more room in between rows.
I usually only put a foot, but then the plants start fighting and I have pumpkins on the other side of the garden from where I planted.

4. Cucumbers have sex and reproduce on their own. 1 plant = 500 cucumbers.
I should know this, but I always plant 5 and have cucumbers coming out of my ass. I now have a lifetime supply of pickles.

5. Vining plants need to be planted far apart from each other.
if you don't you only end up with a few items. I had one watermelon this year from 5 plants. I planted them way to close.

6. My red bell peppers never turn red. They rot before they get to that stage.
Either I don't know what I am doing (possible) or the store labels them wrong (this must be it)

7. Zucchini plants are huge.
I always forget this, hence they get planted way to close together an other things so I can't walk around them.

8. Watering is essential, but don't forget to turn off the sprinkler.
I flooded my garden several times this year.

9. Deer love my garden.
put up a damn fence and not just the posts.

10. Put the tomato cages around the plants when they are small.
this year I waited too long and it was a struggle to force the huge plant into the cages. I think this resulted in limb death and several tomatoes that grew on the ground for bugs to eat.

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  1. Great post, Heather. And #4 made me laugh out loud.

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