http://www.watchmyfoodgrow.com/backyard-garden/expanding-my-garden-for-strawberries-cucumber-and-watermelon/ A South Florida Raised Vegetable Garden Fri, 18 May 2012 00:39:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.watchmyfoodgrow.com/backyard-garden/expanding-my-garden-for-strawberries-cucumber-and-watermelon/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Giganto Pithecus Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:05:51 +0000 http://www.watchmyfoodgrow.com/?p=244#comment-336 Sunflowers produce chemicals that negatively affect many other plants. I ruined half a yard of soil by adding chopped sunflowers to it as compost. I had to sift out the remnants and let the soil cook for 2 months before I could even grow beans in it. Google "allelopathy". One thing you can do if you must grow them close to other plants is to remove wilting leaves before they drop. Each leaf is a little herbicide bomb. Sunflowers produce chemicals that negatively affect many other plants. I ruined half a yard of soil by adding chopped sunflowers to it as compost. I had to sift out the remnants and let the soil cook for 2 months before I could even grow beans in it. Google “allelopathy”. One thing you can do if you must grow them close to other plants is to remove wilting leaves before they drop. Each leaf is a little herbicide bomb.

]]> http://www.watchmyfoodgrow.com/backyard-garden/expanding-my-garden-for-strawberries-cucumber-and-watermelon/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Laine Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:48:46 +0000 http://www.watchmyfoodgrow.com/?p=244#comment-59 I think they look sorta pretty hanging down, so for me, it's an aesthetic thing. I think they look sorta pretty hanging down, so for me, it’s an aesthetic thing.

]]> http://www.watchmyfoodgrow.com/backyard-garden/expanding-my-garden-for-strawberries-cucumber-and-watermelon/comment-page-1/#comment-47 FlaNative Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:24:59 +0000 http://www.watchmyfoodgrow.com/?p=244#comment-47 The Florida Culinary Institute installed a hanging garden over their regular beds -- they have an impressive number of buckets of tomatoes and other veggies growing out of the bottom of 5-gallon buckets hung about 5 feet off the ground. The Florida Culinary Institute installed a hanging garden over their regular beds — they have an impressive number of buckets of tomatoes and other veggies growing out of the bottom of 5-gallon buckets hung about 5 feet off the ground.

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