Vegetable Gardening

Greetings, gardeners! Today from 10 - 12 ET the Rich Earth Institute team is here to answer your questions about gardening with urine fertilizer!

Urine is rich in plant nutrients. When flushed, these nutrients can contribute to nutrient pollution in our watersheds. Instead, we can reclaim these nutrients as a safe and effective fertilizer to grow a more abundant harvest!

Representing Rich Earth today, we have: Research Director Abe Noe-Hays, Social Research Director Tatiana Schreiber, and Education Director Julia Cavicchi

Well, as the title says, I was outside tidying up some things in my beds and noticed my landlord was spraying some weeds in the property directly behind my garden. He made a comment about waiting for “south winds” so it wouldn’t drift into my yard. Which was nice, but it damn near killed all of the flowers on my blackberry bush and the rest of my plants look pretty awful. :( I’m just so upset cos this is the first year my garden was looking really promising. Not necessarily seeking advice, just venting out of frustration.

We’ve had two awful storms that have beat up my beds on top of this, lol. I plan on giving the plants a boost by fertilizing with some fish fertilizer and keeping my fingers crossed they’ll bounce back.

From south Alabama, just about everything in my garden is facing some kind of disease. I have completely butchered a lot of my plants and sprayed copper fungicide and chlorathalonil relentlessly. Every tomato plant has septoria leaf spot, several peppers that were beautiful last week are getting crown rot and dying, watermelon plants covered in some kind of ugly fungus. Even with drip irrigation and plastic mulch, everything still seems to be getting beaten by disease.

I even bought 12 replacement tomato plants that I haven’t even set out yet are already covered in leaf spot fungus.

Gardening here is really difficult..so much time and hard work down the drain. We aren’t forecasted any rain for awhile, hoping and praying some of it will be able to bounce back.

Ugh I want to cry. My partner and I spent all morning putting the dirt in our garden bed and we did also mix it with this other nutrient rich mix but it was maybe a 1/5 of the box has that. The rest I have just discovered is just top soil. I have already complained to company but now I don’t know what to do. I planted all of my vegetables already. My partner was the one putting in the soil so I didn’t notice that there was an issue. Only noticed the label on the bag after. Should I remove all that dirt and then replant them in the garden mix dirt I was originally going to? Ughh

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for fellow patio gardeners. How do you make the most of your space? I'm particularly interested in growing edibles in containers, or maybe you've found a way to still install a raised planter.

Please share your experiences 🙏🏻

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know if we need to plant 2 or more if these persimmon trees to get them bearing fruits? What fertilizer would be best for them in the southeast (Atlanta) area? Thanks!

I've never seen them this bad or had the damage hit so quickly and widespread. It's looking like a total loss of onions this year, although I might be able to save at least some of the leeks and garlic. I've got a spinosad regimen going to save what I can...