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I've had a blessed abundance in the first year garden via these galvanized tubs, despite a bit of deer browsing. Now it's time for me to do some final harvesting and thinning once deciding what to keep and overwinter. It's also time to get cover crops into most of these tubs. Next year I plan to reduce the amount of vegetables and increase medicinal plants for drying and tincturing, as I have good local sources for veg but not for medicinal herbs. Potentially this could be a decent side hustle for me.

How did your own garden do this year?

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Adam Snyder 1y ago

That sounds like an awesome idea. I'd be interested to see what medicine you grow and preservation/use methods.

My garden is weedy. I spread myself too thin and didn't get as much as I should have of anything.

kerimae 1y ago

I'm starting to plan out what I could grow by concentrating on characteristics. For example, analgesics. Of all the helpful herbs for that, what could I easily grow in my area for that purpose? You could do the same for whatever most ails your family.

Low Information Voter 1y ago

I want to grow some Wintergreen. Its basically asprin, the essential oil in the leaves.

I've had no luck convincing it to germinate yet. My retired mother has my seeds now and is trying different media.

kerimae 1y ago

Have you distilled essential oils before? So interesting

atyh 1y ago

Looks great 😊

kerimae 1y ago

😊

John Christensen 1y ago

Your garden sounds like it’s been a real success, even with the deer getting in on the action! Exciting to hear about your plans to shift towards medicinal herbs. That could definitely turn into something special, especially with the growing interest in natural remedies. Looking forward to seeing how your new venture unfolds!

Josh 1y ago

My garden was doing great. Then we had a bit of a heat wave and my tomatoes went completely catatonic for about 6 weeks and my cucumbers and beans were toast. Everything else is still doing well and the tomatoes are slowly putting out some fruit again. Not sure if they will come back fully or not. Congrats on an awesome garden. Especially year one!

kerimae 1y ago

Here in the PNW we're happy to see tomatoes ripen at all before the frost gets them. Our window for heat loving plants is pretty small.

Liberty Gal 1y ago

Your garden looks great.

I pretty much took a break from gardening this year. I still had some of my perennials produce, but raccoons got a lot of the fruit. (apples, currants, strawberries, & cherries).

kerimae 1y ago

Those raccoons! They feasted on my plums!

Liberty Gal 1y ago

We have a trap that we were going to put out because the raccoons got all of our apples the year before, but we kept being out of town. I'm OK killing a raccoon, but I don't want to trap one and have it bake in the sun and die a slow painful death of dehydration.