Garden.

[KJbushway]

My plan after the first growing season(I am just taking one to learn the ropes and see if my system works)
Is to start growing Spring season:
Asparagus
Broccoli
Carrots
Corn
Strawberries
Summer season:
Cucumber
Lettuce
Onion
Garlic
Pumpkin
Tomato
Watermelon(if I can spare the room)
Potatos
Zucchini
Fall season:
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Celery
Onion
Sweet Potatoes
Garlic


Winter is when I let me soil take a break and get ready for next year by letting all the stems and leaves rot in soil locked away in boxes.

 

[KJbushway]

I am surprised by how much spacing plants need. Just for the sweet potato the spacing between rows needs to be 60-120", my garden plans only allow for 2 ft apart. I can put it to 3ft, but I may have to grow them in my second space which I will try to grow pumpkin and watermelon.

Nature tends to go a bit nuts, so don't try to stick to a "plan" or "design" too rigidly. use plenty of cages and mesh to make things grow up instead of out if you're short of space.

I have a 25' by 17' space.
But to prevent flooding of my field I will grow in wooden boxes with the soil rasied in side(about 1') and the size of those boxes I want to be 5' long and 3' wide.

 

[scotpens]

I have a little plant and I don't know what it is. While 19 of my houseplants and my herb garden are all thriving, this little bugger is doing poorly. It used to be about ten times as thick, but only a week after getting it home most of the foliage dried up. I've since weeded out the dead bits and transplanted the living portion into a new pot with some quality and even ph potting soil. It's still not doing well, though. I've tried partial shade and now I'm giving it a dose of full sun. It'd help if I knew what this is. Can anyone help?

Maybe it needs . . . BLOOD!

 

[KJbushway]

Well my garden plans are on hold. After talking with my parents, I found out that since we think that our septic system drainage field is broken, we don't know where the extra water is going. Therefor until we get it fixed I can't do my garden idea. This sucks I really wanted to try this out.

 

[M'Sharak]

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I have a little plant and I don't know what it is. While 19 of my houseplants and my herb garden are all thriving, this little bugger is doing poorly. It used to be about ten times as thick, but only a week after getting it home most of the foliage dried up. I've since weeded out the dead bits and transplanted the living portion into a new pot with some quality and even ph potting soil. It's still not doing well, though. I've tried partial shade and now I'm giving it a dose of full sun. It'd help if I knew what this is. Can anyone help?

The photo on this page is terrible, but it looks as if it could be what you've got there. Better pics to be found at bottom right here, and about halfway down the page here. On this page, it's also called a false philodendron, but there doesn't seem to be much helpful information otherwise.

 

[thestrangequark]

^That might be it, but the leaves still don't seem quite right. Mine are much smaller than in the pictures and have a different vein pattern. Alas! T'is a mystery still!

 

[Jadzia]

tsq, I think it's an Algerian Ivy.

The vein structure looks the same. The colour and varigation looks the same. The stems look the same. Sometimes the leaves are almond shaped like your plant has. Sometimes they have the 'wings' like other ivy leaves.

 

[thestrangequark]

^Similar, but not that. The texture of the leaves isn't at all like ivy, and although the picture I posted sort of makes it looks as if they do, my leaves don't have the two points on the sides. The leaves are very delicate, even when the plant is healthy. and the largest of the leaves is about the size of a dime.

 

[KJbushway]

Well, then it has to be a close family to that of Algerian Ivy.

 

[thestrangequark]

^Not necessarily. Just because plants look similar doesn't mean they're related. Sweet potatoes and yams are in completely different families, for example.

 

[Jadzia]

It could be the condition of the soil that makes the leaves grow the way they do. eg, if there's too little nitrogen in the soil to encourage thick leaf growth, or if the soil is too acidic. Ivy likes alkali soil, which you can create by mixing in ash, or a handful of limestone gravel.

Which reminds me of an interesting story... When I was little my parents had a hydrangea in the garden. One day my father put some limestone gravel on top of the soil surrounding it, and the next time I looked, the flowers of the hydrangea had changed colour, from blue to pink (iirc). It's like litmus.