Accidental Gardening
Last year I made a token attempt at gardening around this time of the year, or a little later. Yes, I know that isn’t the time to make a garden but we were starting even smaller than this year. That year’s work wasn’t much success at all. But this year we’ve got a bed with potential problems, which I decided to use as extra space.
It didn’t work.
Cucumbers and zucchini are large plants that take 3′ x 3′ worth of space each—neither of which I like. Because I wasn’t sure how this bed’s soil conditions were, it caused severe blossom-end rot that prevented any harvest of big beef tomatoes, I figured it could serve as a backup bed. So, I planted two rows of carrots, none of which sprouted, and two zucchini plants; I started some cucumbers in planters and then moved them out to the same bed.
The result was a dismal failure of slow death from pH imbalance. The plants paled, wouldn’t grow, and produced nary a blossom.
Or so I thought.
