Anyone else have a problem overestimating in April, only to have a Jungle in July?
I love how big everything has gotten, but it’s making it very easy to miss things. 8x tomato, 4x cucumber, carrots, cucamelon and watermelon is definitely too much for one 4×8 bed, but it all looked so small at the start!
by CBEBuckeye
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WormCastings
Every year for the past 25 years. I never learn.
plant-sluts
That’s the fun of it!
scholargeek13
I try to use every inch I can… what I plant in April isn’t a problem until July/August… it’s fine…everything is fine…
It’s my first year and making a mini jungle pathway with whatever I could fit.
cephalophile32
Every year I think I’ll allow more spacing and every year I try to cram more plants in because they look so lonely, and hey, there’s just so much space! Look at the wee lil baby tomato
astoryfromlandandsea
Oh boy, that’s how I like it (crawling underneath the tomato tunnels, and along the edges of my retaining walls overflowing with cucumbers and cantaloupe). 😆
jgisbo007
My pepper bed this year is like a jungle. I can’t even see what’s growing!
National_Reception64
MUST BE NICE (beautiful garden; in 9b and all I’ve gotten is endless heat domes)
sowhatimlucky
The abundance of it all!
pomnabo
HA Did i ever Not quite a jungle, because I simply didn’t have the space; but I planted dozens of seeds >_>
At least 150, if not more…I didn’t expect *everything* to germinate so prolifically; or so quickly. It all grew faster than I could get the beds setup 😂🤷🏻♂️ They sat in their starter trays for probably 2 months 😅🙈
I did a hefty pruning a couple weeks ago, to try and control their sizes, but it all just got bushier AND taller.
Low key love it but now I can’t see where all the baby cyuks are; those especially went wild the last few weeks.
Northernstar50220
Your tomato bed looks exactly like mine lol
chrispybobispy
We got into canning and pickling and then it really really gets nuts.
PensiveObservor
I swear everything grows best when it’s leaning on its neighbors. If I use “correct” spacing, the spindly little plants never do a darn thing, peppers especially. If I overplant thinking some of them will surely not make it… I have black-eyed juncos living in my pole beans.
EveBytes
I love a good jungle garden! It’s like Easter egg hunting to find the veggies.
iskico
Seed Pack: plant 4 seeds in raised mound. Trim away 3 weakest seedlings once 1”
Me: or I can just let all 4 grow and see what happens?
Phaeron
My tomatoes are ELEVEN FUCKING FEET TALL… and I have an average tomato count…
Gee, this could be taken in a totally different context in another hilarious conversation.
fearless1025
I planted sparsely and ended sparse. Quantity and quality helps when you start to lose things through the season. I’d rather see a bunch of green and hunt for the goods than to be peeping through straggly stems and eaten leaves. I don’t know what I would have done with more but I sure hope to find out in the Fall. 🤞🏽 🍁
New-Side5688
Yes, I put too many vining plants near each other… I just trimmed of like 20 feet of pumpkin vines just so I could mow
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Every year for the past 25 years. I never learn.
That’s the fun of it!
I try to use every inch I can… what I plant in April isn’t a problem until July/August… it’s fine…everything is fine…
My 4×12 bed is absolutely bursting right now haha
https://preview.redd.it/vmidco0fwhif1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9d52ac1a94547580b7f676a19cc7181a31a5b93
https://preview.redd.it/g6qlww05yhif1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2af9d7458493d9187fdd45c96a174e94b48df42
It’s my first year and making a mini jungle pathway with whatever I could fit.
Every year I think I’ll allow more spacing and every year I try to cram more plants in because they look so lonely, and hey, there’s just so much space! Look at the wee lil baby tomato
Oh boy, that’s how I like it (crawling underneath the tomato tunnels, and along the edges of my retaining walls overflowing with cucumbers and cantaloupe). 😆
My pepper bed this year is like a jungle. I can’t even see what’s growing!
MUST BE NICE (beautiful garden; in 9b and all I’ve gotten is endless heat domes)
The abundance of it all!
HA
Did i ever
Not quite a jungle, because I simply didn’t have the space; but I planted dozens of seeds >_>
At least 150, if not more…I didn’t expect *everything* to germinate so prolifically; or so quickly. It all grew faster than I could get the beds setup 😂🤷🏻♂️
They sat in their starter trays for probably 2 months 😅🙈
I did a hefty pruning a couple weeks ago, to try and control their sizes, but it all just got bushier AND taller.
Low key love it but now I can’t see where all the baby cyuks are; those especially went wild the last few weeks.
Your tomato bed looks exactly like mine lol
We got into canning and pickling and then it really really gets nuts.
I swear everything grows best when it’s leaning on its neighbors. If I use “correct” spacing, the spindly little plants never do a darn thing, peppers especially. If I overplant thinking some of them will surely not make it… I have black-eyed juncos living in my pole beans.
I love a good jungle garden! It’s like Easter egg hunting to find the veggies.
Seed Pack: plant 4 seeds in raised mound. Trim away 3 weakest seedlings once 1”
Me: or I can just let all 4 grow and see what happens?
My tomatoes are ELEVEN FUCKING FEET TALL… and I have an average tomato count…
Gee, this could be taken in a totally different context in another hilarious conversation.
I planted sparsely and ended sparse. Quantity and quality helps when you start to lose things through the season. I’d rather see a bunch of green and hunt for the goods than to be peeping through straggly stems and eaten leaves. I don’t know what I would have done with more but I sure hope to find out in the Fall. 🤞🏽 🍁
Yes, I put too many vining plants near each other… I just trimmed of like 20 feet of pumpkin vines just so I could mow