>>361468Greetings my friend.
Here was my original 'plan' I made for the box this February before I even started the seeds indoors. It (in theory) worked out spacing wise. Bottom layer is 5 feet x 5 feet, then 3' x3' then 1' x 1'
I think I super-loaded the soil with nutrients before I planted them and they are growing like fucking crazy now. The tomatoes are about 6 feet tall and are a forest, the borages are 3 feet tall, and the marigold at the bottom corner of the box is about 3 feet tall and so large it turned into a bush and I had to stake it. Only about half the plants (mostly the stuff on the bottom later as well as the one sweet pepper in the middle and the bee balm at the top "crown" (the 1'x1' space) are there, and the other stuff I was unable to grow from seed so I let the box take off and now its getting unmanageable and I need to add the drip irrigation to the middle and upper parts of the box but its out of hand now. The nasturtiums have began vining and causing me hell
Like I mentioned, its NASTY hot in the day and I have problems with a family of paper wasps that 'seem' to have eradictated most of my caterpillars but I see that some of them are burrowing in the Roma tomatoes of which I have about 25 ready that are ripe and the two supersteak tomato plants are barely starting to emerge so thank god they haven't had the chance to attack those 'yet'
The maintenance is the problem for me (pruning wise) so as to not cut the plants after they are uprooting the water and so the bees or wasps don't attack me or its too hot but I can't do that as the bees appear at 6-7am, wasps take over until 7:30pm then it gets dark at 8pm.
>>361472With the netting, I want the bees in but theres too many tiny moths that could get into the netting soI don't know how to remedy that. Also I think some caterpillars burrow or come from underground, right?
>>361578Won't the water cause disease and fungal problems? I try to avoid hitting the foliage with water at all costs.
