It's that time of year to clear out all the beds and get them ready to overwinter garlic and onions.

My pumpkins that i spent days prepping a plot for, tilled, fertilized, automatic irrigation system, didn't do well at all. The potatoes that i yanked from the pantry, let my son cut into pieces and basically tossed too close together in soil that i barely loosened up still full of grass, did amazing.

A 6x18 bed behind a barn that i forgot to water half the time filled this box about 3 times, which weighed around 30lbs each + we've just been pulling them to throw in with dinner for the past few nights.

A couple pest, a couple bad ones, but overall I'm super happy.

I gave a box to each of the neighbors on either side and kept one for myself

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[–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Nice work! After the squash vine borers and squash bugs this year, I will never plant non-resistant squash again. I hear the "Long Island Cheese" pumpkin is tasty and resistant, so I will try that next year (along with butternut which did fine this year despite the bugs).

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 day ago

    Our biggest issue was the wildlife. We just moved here last year so were still figuring everything out. Turns out we have a huge groundhog population in the woods who were climbing the 2ft chicken wire fence with ease and eating all the leaves they could. I replaced it with 3ft wire and they were still getting over so I took the staples out of the top 1ft of the post so the chicken wire would flop over when they tried to climb and it worked like a charm, but it was already a little too late

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