I have my first little gourd on the "birdhouse gourd" plant that is growing on the bamboo house.
I got started on this garden much later than most of the people around me in the UF student gardens, but things are growing really well. I also have my first tiny green tomatoes.
I've been trying different things to keep down the weeds, because they have been very hard to get under control. I couldn't keep up with them by pulling alone and for awhile there my garden looked like an over grown lawn. Then I tried weeding a row, laying down newspaper, and then covering the paper with the dead weeds. That did help hold in moisture, but the pulled weeds started growing on the news paper. So, about 2 weeks ago, a young guy working at Wards grocery store told me what he does and I love it (it looks so much nicer). First I roll up the news papers with the weeds growing on them ( much like rolling up sod) and throw it in the compost pile. Then I pull any weeds that have grown in the row and lay down fresh news paper, which I cover completely with composted cow manure.
My other experiment has been to stick a 2 liter soda bottle full of water into the soil to slow water a plant ( like those hand-blown glass globes they advertise on t.v. for watering house plants). So far it seems to work fine, although it's not very pretty.
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