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Re: New Gardener Update

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Congrats on your successful first year country garden!!!  I just started
harvesting yellow squash too, but I don't have tomatoes yet.  Boo hoo!
And I'm in zone 9 even.  Guess I planted them too late.

I agree with you about the mulch.  It's great stuff.  I used to have to
water my beds every other day, but now with the mulch I only have to
water once a week (or in really hot weather every 5 days).  What do you
mulch with?

Can you actually grow kale and cabbage this early in the summer in
Georgia?  I would think it would be too hot in your area.  I've never
grown any cole crops, but I'd like to this fall, but am not sure when to
start the seeds.

Kim , zone 9, so calif


> We ate our very first ever home-grown tomato last night. It was FABULOUS. I
> couldn't believe how good it was. I want MORE!  Happily, I picked another
> tonight, and lots more are on their way. I fertilized and watered them this
> evening.
> 
> We've been harvesting yellow squash for a week or more -- more than enough
> already: I call it the energizer vegetable. I don't even know why we planted
> them since they're not our favorite. I guess just because we were so late
> that we just picked up a few seedlings here and there, whatever was
> available.  We gave an armful to a neighbor yesterday, and I could've picked
> several more tonight. My first canning experience MIGHT be yellow squash --
> unless, of course, I can send some to you folks -- ??
> 
> I LOVE MULCH! If there are any other new gardeners out there, mulching is
> THE very best thing you can do for yourself, not to mention your garden. The
> small tomato / squash / etc. bed we did get planted (not technically sq. ft.
> this year but it will be next, and raised too) is heavily mulched, whereas
> the corn my husband insisted on planting isn't mulched (yet). He has a
> really fine crop of weeds to go with his corn -- whereas I can count on two
> hands the numbers of weeds I've had, and they're SO easy to pull out from
> the soft, moist soil, with their thin weak little roots. Watering is so much
> easier because the soil doesn't crust and the water doesn't run off as bad,
> and stays put. Since the soil stays moister it needs less water. IOW --
> mulching is everything they say it is.  I'm absolutely 100% sold on
> mulching. Heck, if my parents had known about mulching, I'd maybe have liked
> gardening (and even weed pulling) when I was a kid.
>


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