Tag: gardening

plant raspberry bushes

Created by Matthew Cornell Aug 01, 2010 | Tags gardening, raspberry, raspberries, fruit plants

Overview I'll plant 10 raspberry bushes next to my fence, which gets great sun. The only variables I'll set up are how much sun each gets (on the end there's less than at the start) and how big the holes I dig are. Later I can do experiments in pruning, fertilizer, nets, etc. I'll use the varieties that that local garden center h... See experiment

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Matthew Cornell They all look pretty good, with #2 being smaller and less healthy. Tall green, and even a few berries ripening. However, there's some kind of bug chewing on the lower leaves, and they are yellow and shriveling. I'm surprised by this - I naively assumed that there would be no bug interest! Time for a trip to the garden store.

21 days ago

Matthew Cornell We've had a drought here, and it's not surprising that I lost #8. Let's have a moment of silence. I've been watering them from our big rain barrel, so the others are looking pretty good. We have a few Japanese Beetles munching on leaves, but I'll use my wife's technique of plucking them off and dropping them into soapy water. They've produced a handful of berries so far... See more

7 days ago

Plant my first garden

Created by Andy O'Shea Mar 21, 2010 | Tags food, gardening, garden, plants

Overview I will plant a small garden in the pioneer valley using the square foot gardening technique (http://www.squarefootgardening.com/) See experiment

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Andy O'Shea Well, it's been over a month since my last observation on the garden due to a combination of laziness and a long trip to Europe, which my wife and I just got back from. We got some valuable gardening experience while over the pond, since two weeks of the trip were spent wwoofing (http://www.wwoof.org/). The bad new is that when we got back from the trip, we found the ... See more

Aug 10, 2010

Matthew Cornell snap peas: I'm another fan! Ours didn't turn out well this year, but it depends on the variety, I think. Good experiment.

29 days ago

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