Yes. You will get a lot of plant growth and fewer flowers.
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Also, if itās liquid fertilizer (that you mix yourself) you can burn plants if it is too concentrated.
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Thanks! Iām using the powder that you mix into water. As I try to compete with the seniors Iām trying to do it once a week. The package says every 7-14 days but wanted to check for feedback.
For those of us in Australia, planting on your nature strip.
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Some councils here give free plants, too! Mine is not one of those.
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I love this little piece of history trivia!
āOriginally, verges were created to provide reserves for sheep and cattle to graze as they were herded to city marketsā
In my city most of the nature strips are separated by a sidewalk. There are some really lovely gardens in some around my neighborhood. I see a lot of very tough perennials like hostas, but more and more people are putting in pollinator gardens if they have sun. When I first bought my house nearly all the nature strips were shaded by trees but this part of the city has had a lot of mature ash trees removed in the last decade.
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First flowers on summer squash and on tomatoes today.
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Iāve been ok at the growing things part of gardening and very bad at the harvesting part. I have two mixes of unknown seeds from FedCo, one greens and one lettuces. How do I tell when to harvest greens/lettuce when I donāt know if itās the kind that makes a head or not? I think one of the greens already started bolting (my front porch is hotter than any other part of the yard) so if I want to eat produce then I need to start thinking about this. If I do a āname this plantā with all the kinds that came up would people be able to tell me what to do?
Separate but similar problem: I need to put up netting on my strawberry tower so that I can harvest and eat my strawberries instead of feeding the wildlife, but Iām not sure how to do it such that the animals cant reach through it and get the strawberries anyway. I assume just draping netting over the 5 gallon pots wonāt do much. Anyone successfully done something similar?
I start cutting outer leaves off to eat as soon as the plant looks big enough to handle the loss of a few leaves.
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Harvest lettuce when you want to eat lettuce. I deliberately donāt plant head forming types because I aināt got the patience for that.
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We were talking about killing morning glory a while back. My Poppa said to mix up the poison, cut the tendril and stick the tendril in. It will suck it up and kill the plant, and itās a lot less effort for you. Iām going to try it. It will still take a few goes to kill as all the little new suckers shoot up.
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Oh, smart!
I harvest leaves off of my lettuce as soon as the leaves are big enough to eat, regardless of whether itās head forming or not. Have seen no ill effects from this.
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Try tulle. Like, from the fabric store. I draped it over the entire plant and tucked it under the bottom of the plant so it wasnāt easy to nudge aside. I donāt have anything big here though, ie, deer. Just bunnies and birds and rats.
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Borage Yeltsin is starting to flower!
Charles Cabbage is forming a head!
My best pea harvest to date. Will these puff out if I leave them on the vine longer? Theyāre flat like snow peas, but theyāre sugar snap peas.
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Yes.
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Omg the borage here is already done! Iāve been pulling out the flowerless stalks so that something else can growā¦
Mr Darling saw a groundhog and I commented that it must be a well fed groundhog since it wasnāt munching my plants. And then it ate all my peas that had blossoms on them 
I can move the containers but the back yard is much cooler than the front yard, and Iām worried itāll be too hot for them. Any other suggestions?
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I am in possession of SIX free plants from my fellow community gardeners. Last weekend someone wrote on the message board āwho wants a pepper plant, respond with your plot numberā. I put down my plot number and a couple days later THREE pepper seedlings were sitting in my plot. Two hot, one mild. I think. One variety Iāve never heard of. Joe Parker? Hm, looked it up, that oneās an anaheim, so, hot too. I was not growing any hot peppers before, debated buying a jalapeno but decided Iād rather buy sweet peppers.(Had no seeds.
And then today someone came up to me (distanced properly and masked!) and asked if I could use some cherry tomato plants. {grabby hands} Sure, why not. She handed me a bag with three of them! I only had room for 2, and the third looks like shit, but thatās OK. I plunked that one in a container that I happened to have on me, and it can sit there until the arugula bolts and has to be pulled, which will likely be next week given the forecast.
Speaking of arugula, gotta credit @lhamo for suggesting that I dump a whole shitload of arugula seed in the bed. It is going gangbusters, Iām eating a bowl of it every couple days, and needs very little care.
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