2025 Garden Thread

[Stelcom66]

Raised beds are doing well. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and a squash. Going to try some homemade pickles and canning tomatoes this year. Pumpkins have been up for a few weeks and look good. Temperatures finally warmed up enough and the gourds are popping out too.

What a great setup and already quite a yield! Nice seeing the dog in the photo.

 

[walhondingnashua]

Has anyone tried the fertilizer idea with fermenting weeds in a bucket of water?

 

[djlew]

Has anyone tried the fertilizer idea with fermenting weeds in a bucket of water?

Not specifically weeds but did try the generic "compost tea" idea before to specifically target what I thought were some nutrient deficient plants. Seemed to help, but I also coupled that with some other factors like moving into a more ideal location so hard to attribute just to the compost tea. Not entirely sure how helpful it is, but I've heard some arguments that it doesn't really add a noticeable amount of nutrients but essentially creates a healthier environment for your plants to absorb the nutrients already present in the soil - since diluting the nutrients already present in the compost (at least in theory) wouldn't introduce enough nutrients to make a difference. I can confirm that in my experience on a basic vegetable garden that it at the very least didn't hurt.