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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2408633" data-attributes="member: 31094">I'd never gardened before, because I never had a house before, but this year is my first in a rental house so I planted a garden.  I tried zucchini, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, and sweet peas.The zucchini's the only thing still going, that I can tell.  I've got large green leaves and some pretty yellow/orange flowers that open in the morning then close in the heat of the day. The tomato plants, I didn't know I needed a wire support for them, so by the time I got some, they were rather wilted.  Also we haven't had much rain.  So I don't see any tomatoes and doubt I will. The green peppers never came up.  I planted them as seedlings but this other plant seemed to overgrow them, don't know what it is but it's a weed, I guess. The onions are in the back and I have no idea if they're still alive or not, since they're in the ground.  When does one harvest onions?  They were planted in April.  The long stems coming out of the ground are still bright green.  How do I dig them up? The sweet peas, I read about before planting and it said to provide 3-4" supports for the vines.  I bought several little white lattices, about 6" tall each, and the vines wouldn't cling to them.  The vines wound up in a big tangle.  I got a few delicious pea pods and now the vines are all brown and dried up. I had cultivated the bed and then mixed garden soil with a vegetable fertilizer in with the soil already in the bed.  I planted in mid-April.  At first I thought I was supposed to water every day, but then someone told me I was overwatering, so I stopped watering and only watered when the plants were looking thirsty.  I'm sure I did something wrong <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  I don't think the garden is much of a success.  But I didn't really learn anything because I don't know what I did wrong.</blockquote>

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