Soā¦ No real changes?
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Awe shucks, you sound like my close friend. 
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I canāt. I am on the lamb from Agnes. She is suspicious about the blueberry aroma coming from my basementā¦when blueberries arenāt ripe until July.
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Good Morning 
Iāve got a question on Bush Beans fertilizing. As Iāve learned in the past, beans donāt take a lot of fertilizer. They make their own nitrogen and like a small balanced fertilizer. I found 4-4-4 to be the best to top dress once a month with and once every few weeks give them a good shot of phosphorus and potassium by way of watered in nutrients and theyāll thrive like crazy.
My question is, when looking at the two illustrated diagrams below youāll see that I have a 6x2 area with rows of bush beans. I know my soil is currently treated to last a good 30 days before having to top dress with 444
Ill eventually dig a finger trench and sprinkle in the 444 Iām just not sure the best way to approach. Should I trench like figure A or figure B?
Figure A
Figure B
Thank you in advance for your input
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This year my tomatoes inside the house started from seeds struggled to stay alive and remain healthy after 30 days in Solo cups. More than likely it was due to over-watering and inappropriate lighting. Nevertheless, when deciding it was time to get everything out into the outdoor garden I had a choice, I could scratch the unhealthy tomato plants or buy new ones. It wasnāt a dollar figure decision it was a recovery decision. The fact that I was literally two weeks ahead of the game of getting outside I decided Iāll give them the two weeks to recover. Boy with two weeks will do.
This was one of the worst plants she grew out but not up. There was no new growth for at least 30 days. Her limbs could not support themselves and I had to build crutches from sticks just to support her in the 15 gallon pot
10 Days Ago
Today
Sheās got plenty of new growth sheās now standing on her own without crutch support and I believe has made a full recovery
When it comes to weed Iām very meticulous about watering. I donāt think Iāve ever overwatered one of my girls before. But when it comes to tomatoes 
Iāve got a bad habit of watering. To much 
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Itās amazing, this was overall and overcast non sunny weekend with small spurts of drizzle just enough to keep the outdoor garden soil semi wet/moist. (You couldnāt ask for anything better) especially with fresh seeds in the ground. All my cucumbers and watermelons have popped their heads out of the dirt.
Only about 5 out of 30 bush beans have popped but Iām sure theyāll all pop by the end of the week.
It was a huge Gamble putting out little 2" inch tomato seedlings in May with such high winds that we get here in the month of May. Luckily, weāve had a zero wind factor since I planted them. And the 2 inches have went to 3 in in only 2 days. Normally I donāt like to put a tomato less than 12 in tall outside for this reason.
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āFinger Trenchā
I dont think it really matters which direction you dig it. either way theyāre going to get the same amount of Fertilizer, id think.
Id just go with whatever will be most comfortable for you to reach over and fertilize. For me itd be 2 long rows as opposed to 3 or 4 shorter rows.
That tomato looks so much better! 
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I took it as a joke. Was that a serious question after all?
Oh Christ i hope this was a real questionā¦
At least there was a logical answer, but itās why I thought joking
@Budbrother @Zampano
I know I joke a lot and itās hard to tell when Iām serious and when Iām playing 
but this was a serious question.
Last year, (being my first year of gardening outdoors) I burned up an entire garden by over fertilizing and had to restart the entire garden in June. Yes I used a 10 lb bag of 10-10-10 in one fertilizing feed. 
And I couldnāt understand why everything turned yellow and fell over 
With that being said, letās just say Iām very cautious about fertilizing now
This is why I drew the illustration of the two different ways that I could actually fertilize (when they need it) it just looked as if the shorter rows (Fig A) could have led to a lot more fertilizer in the soil than doing 2 long rows (Fig B)
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I took @Darran advice and used clay pottery pots directly inside the beds of both the cucumber and watermelon beds to plant my marigolds and prevent them from getting over waterlogged as watermelon and cucumbers take up so much water to produce their fruit.
Once again my only concern is that the marigolds were started from seed in Solo cups and are only 30 days old and very tiny seedlings. Transplanting was very difficult as well as all the dirt crumbled in my hands removing them from the Solo cups. I still managed to get them in the ground okay but Iām sure they didnāt like it and will probably suffer some stun from transplant.
We shall see
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Pre measure out application rate/sqft then divvy up for amount of rows. Long short zigzag your hearts desire Get jiggy with it
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Makes sense to me thank you 
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Hey @Lostgirl That looks absolutely perfect! Nicely done. Thatās how deep I should have buried mine. Good stuff.
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What type of marigolds are you planting? French (firecrackers) MG like water but stay short. African MG drought tolerant and get huge @Lostgirl
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I donāt recall the name of them. Believe it or not for a solid week I visited approximately six different stores looking for either live marigolds or marigold seeds. (Last month) There wasnāt a store within 40 mi that had any.
@Zampano , the kind and generous person that he is mailed me an envelope full of marigold seeds he got from his garden last year. Not sure if he knows the name but probably does.
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Productive day. And itās just getting ready to rain. I think Iām totally done in the outdoor garden getting everything seeded and/or transplanted. I do want to get some more herbs and maybe a few more flowers going tomorrow but for the most part Iām done.
Not a very big garden but itāll keep me occupied for a little while doing this summer
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Growmie, you are killing it . Nice garden setup, raised beds are in my future at some point. Your hard work and dedication will pay off in dividends. 
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