2023-2025 Consolidated Garden Log

2025 garden recap

** Maybe make a database by plant species/planted date. 🤔

General:

• More fertilizer to prep bed soil before planting!
• Try less frequent, longer watering cycles. Daily, 20 min cycles seemed inadequate in the hot weather.

Successes:

• Sweet alyssum: bloomed through summer in part shade raised bed.
• Torenia & caladium: Gorgeous in shady container!
• Blue spice basil: Got huge in raised bed and sprouted many volunteers same season.
• Lady Murasaki purple mustard: survived heat and beetle damage in part shade raised bed when even the chard struggled. Pretty.

Mixed results:

• Rosita eggplant: Got huge in part shade, but produced few fruits. Attractive plant. Wicked thorns.

Challenges:

• Tomatoes: too much shade in back right raised bed reduced growth. some hornworm damage. Disease onset in July.
• Peppers: Too much shade in back right raised bed. Got leggy and fell over. Likely nutrient imbalance in new soil. Few peppers.
• Bush beans: Struggled with nutrient balance and possibly watering in new raised beds. No beans. :(
• Squash and zucchino rampinante squash: Planted in May. Decimated by vine borers. Likely powdery mildew in August. Few cucumbers, no squash.