One thing I'd like to add as a "lesson learned" is landscape cloth. It's a game changer. Not the cheap shite you get from Lowe's but the good stuff. I bought a 500ft roll off of Zon and it absolutely changed my garden this year.

Keeps weeds to a minimum and has great moisture retention. I bought all the stuff to do drip irrigation and made all the leads up but didn't need it. I mulched with a good hay from the local co-op but I honestly don't think I needed the high dollar stuff. Any old hay will work as a mulch.

All of my peppers, maters, cukes, squash, zukes, and cabbage were planted in the cloth and the yields were the best I ever had.

Highly recommend the high end landscape cloth.

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Posted by LSUJuice

Back in Houston

Member since Apr 2004

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Posted on 7/29/23 at 8:35 am to bamarep

Agree on the landscape cloth. Also I use cardboard with decent success. I was thinking through some other lessons learned over the course of the season and was going to put together a post at some point.

I was also pretty surprised at how long my spring stuff held on through this heat. I wanted new summer crops, so I cut it all out, but next year I might do differently.

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Posted by Capt ST

Hotel California

Member since Aug 2011

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Posted on 7/29/23 at 9:11 am to bamarep

I think a heavy mulch layer is more beneficial than the cloth. I use it on several of my rows. But the row I skimped on the pine straw has had the poorest results. All the rows have irrigation to the plants.

Did whack a SVB on my butternut plant this morning. Doesn’t seem to matter what bed I put them in, they find the plants. Trying one last time for an okra crop. Hopefully these take off so I can get some in freezer before duck season. Peppers and eggplants are on a tear. But sun scald has been an issue with the peppers.

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