We have a tiny yard so have room for a few tomatoes and basil. Because of weather then Insights and other work travel didn’t get them planted until the weekend after Insights. San Marzanos grow slow so I hope for a nice warm fall to get a decent harvest. They make excellent pasta sauces and chili base though.
We got around to it a little late this year, so mostly have strawberry plants from years past and mint that now has squatters’ rights to a corner, plus a couple grape plants, peppers (we’ll see if this is the year those finally work out), melons, basil, and two San Marzano tomato plants that grow like weeds.
Also have a fig tree in memory of my father-in-law that the bunnies ate to the ground winter of '25, but has flourished since protecting it. Hoping we might get some figs this year
Next year I think I’m going to build a wide free-standing planter and start an annual hops grow. I am in the PNW, after all.
My mom always said you have to be mad when you plant peppers. That still never worked for me. Last year I decided to finally try fertilizer and I used Fox Farms Big Bloom every week or two and I got more peppers than I knew what to do with.
Funny the diff a little fertilizer makes. We stopped fighting tomato blight upon realization we can outgrow it w fertilizer
I like Jack’s water soluble. Made a venturi siphon so we mixup 2gal concentrate then hose the whole garden with the siphon diluting ~50gals in ~12 minutes every 10-14 days
Would like to make it work on a drip system but the siphon requires heavy unconstricted flow to work correctly.
