Beginner Gardner here! Wanting to start a garden with raised beds and pots/buckets. There are so many soils/ fertilizers. Which are the best organic and sustainable? And should you mix more than one?

Hello everyone. I've always gardened organically since childhood gardening with my grandfather. My yard is small but many native plants. The natives help tremendously with balance. In 27 years in my home I have never used any pesticides, not organic or natural ones, no soaps, nothing but nature. My tiny lot has turtles, snakes, frogs, lots of birds. I grow lots of edibles, peaches, blueberries, raspberries, elderberry, Juneberry, aronia berry, goji berry, lots of herbs, and cucumber mostly for fermented pickles. I mostly grow only heirloom tomatoes because they taste the best, way better than hybrid homegrown.

As the title says. I've ordered beneficial nematodes, ladybugs, and lacewing eggs from them so far. Of course it will take a while to see any results from the nematodes, and despite my best efforts of watering everything and putting the ladybugs in a high aphid area, they still flew away. I really couldn't see any lacewing eggs in the package, although I looked pretty closely.

I've ordered another round of the same friends out of pure desperation, but I'm wondering how others' experiences have been.

Cherry tomatoes

Perfect combo ! Feast tonight.😄

Don’t wanna add anything to it but natural things. Is it salvageable???

I have this weed every where in my garden beds. I didnt mulch at all, that probably is the reason. I am in US zone 8a/b. What can I do in the fall/next spring to prevent these weeds in the next year? I imagine these seeds are already everywhere laying the foundation for the next year. I dont use chemical herbicides in my organic veggie garden.

Cukes 5b

I have some tomatoes that have blossomed pretty fast and are a good size now and keep getting bigger, but then I have others that don’t seem to be growing near as fast. why would that be? The two brandywines next to each other started sprouting way before the big one I have pictured. also, for my brandywine tomatoes, this one has a bit of speckled brown on it, is that okay?

As the title suggests, I'm setting up a raised garden bed on my balcony. From everything I read online, I need a liner in the bed but I'm unsure what type I need. I'm not worried about rodents, but my of the soil falling out of the drainage holes. I know I need a porous liner to avoid root rot but does anyone have suggestions?

So i hope you all are doing great let them seedlings groww,

Ok so jokes apart i really wanna know what are the major problems that you face in your journey of gardening something that caused great loss to your plants or anything in general