I’ll be insulating it from inside the raised box. Thinking about using pine wood chips as the insulation. I also think the benefit of insulating from inside is to give the soil more O2. What do you think?
Hey guys, sorry I only have my YouTube short about my radiator under the raised bed with my old plumbing configuration here old plumbing (my YouTube short about this project)
Or now I have this configuration. Any thought on how doing the double ending will effect heating on the left hand side of the bed?
Thanks
I keep hearing that growing beans is supposed to be super easy but I am having very little luck. This has been my third year gardening and I can’t seem to get a good harvest of beans. I have usually only been able to get enough for my husband and I to have them 2-3 times as a side dish with dinner, and I’m talking like one serving each 😢 Green beans are one of my favorite things to cook so I desperately want to grow a bunch!
I’ve tried multiple pole and bush varieties in different places all over my front and back yard. After my first year I thought it was poor soil quality so I’ve tried to work on that and amended a good bit. I think it’s improving because this year my garden was much healthier and I had better luck with many things I struggled with previously (still very much a work in progress though). I also kept thinking maybe I was giving them enough sun in the area I was growing them so then I planted them literally all throughout my back yard beds and in my two front beds as well as some containers just to see if the ones in the sunnier spots did better. They did not.
I know part of my struggle is pests and disease. Ive had some fungal disease issues the last two years and got a terrible spider mite infestation this year but thats not the only problem because unaffected plants still don’t really produce or at least not much. My pole beans tend to do better but not much.
I almost never have luck with bush beans. I’ve had some decently healthy looking bush beans coming up and a few will somehow stay unaffected by the mites and disease but they’ll be weak and tiny and produce like three little two inch beans. It’s so confusing because there will be other things in the beds that will be flourishing and it seems to be all the bush beans no matter how much light they are getting. Also other things I’ve read say beans shouldn’t need to be fertilized very much but I still sometimes do a little bit of something like neptunes harvest when I’m already fertilizing other plants just to try to get them to grow a little more but not every time. The leaves rarely look yellow which I think is usually a nutrient issue, they’re usually pretty green just small and weak.
Also had some germination issues. I’ve tried many different seed companies including baker creek, burpee organic, peaceful valley, thresh seeds, and quite a few more to try to improve things. Doesn’t seem to matter if I soak my seeds ahead of time or not either. I’ve tried many times with both lol
Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!
Maybe a dumb question but this is my first year sowing some cover crops. How do you go about planting them when you have fall crops and some plants still producing from the summer? Do you just sow them around them? My first frost is the end of October so I probably should plant pretty soon just not sure the best way to go about it.
Really trying to work on soil health so any advice/suggestions to help with that in general are also greatly appreciated!
Hi everyone, I currently have a lot of seeds growing on but am not sure how to place them best. This was taken at about 1pm. The closest bed gets the least sun. Citrus is all in the back where we get the most sun. Beds that are available for planting are the larger 3 and then the rounded planter on the left side. Thanks for your suggestions!
Here is my seedlings list:
