Gardening

I've had a few pepper volunteers come up in my seed starts. They're happy little accidents, at least for the time being. Hopefully they wind up producing. Past results have been mixed, but I have the space so I separated them into their own containers.

I have no idea why, but my pepper leaves always turn black under my grow lights. They flip to green once they're outdoors.

I think this is really two questions in one.

First, would you expect Austrian Winter Pea to be winter killed in Zone 6? Maybe I chose a bad cover crop.

Second, now that these things weren't winter killed, what should I do to kill them? I did cut some off at ground level, but it looks like they have leaves all the way down so I'm wary that they will grow back.

Thanks!

I’m planning on clearing some space in my yard for a Rainier cherry tree, and I’m curious if anyone has some tips. I’ve read a couple of guides for selecting good spots, soil amendments, and placement near other cherry trees. Is there anything that caught you by surprise?

Basically the question above. My legacy plant growing in the same pot is doing just fine, but the Sunshine seems to be struggling. We’ve been getting a lot of rain lately so I haven’t been watering as much, is it just thirsty? Should I give it some fertilizer? I’m in Zone 8a and planted them about two weeks ago.

I’m new to growing fruits so I’m a little lost! I’ve only grown herbs and garlic before. I hope they can be saved!

"Dragon tongue" mustard with four cotyledons (seed leaves)

Germinated outdoors so pardon the slug damage

Left dome has watermelons and cantaloupes. The top dome has beefsteak tomatoes, San marzano tomatoes, tumbler and Roma tomatoes. The bottom dome has Jalepeno peppers, bell peppers, habanero peppers and pumpkins.

Seed to soil after last frost at the end of May will be carrots, radishes, cucumbers, peas and whatever else catches my fancy at the store.

My fig tree is putting out figs! I grew this tree from a cutting that a neighbor let me take from her tree. Here's what the figs look like when ripe:

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This is my first time growing strawberries, and one set of plants has been thriving, but this set has these black discolorations and seems to be stunted. No discoloration on the bottom of the leaves, and some of the ones with these spots have folded inward and feel papery. What's going on and how can I treat this? Both plant sets receive basically the same care.

The system is just an assortment of parts from Home Depot more or less.

The system is designed to take plants to harvest, but I also use it to get my spring starters going which is the task this weekend.

I do add nutrients to the water, and it sprays on a 30 second on, and 5 minute off cycle. First time doing tomatoes, did peppers as a test a few months ago.

I would like to get plots started with perennial flower seeds. However, it seems like the weeds will overgrow the plots while the perennial seeds get started.

Could I mix perennial and annual flower seeds and have the annuals try and crowd out the weeds while the perennials take root and come back next year more strongly? Or will the annual seeds prevent the perennial seeds from growing?

I honestly thought I had killed them last year, but here they are, popping up. There were several more that I planted under a fig tree in my yard.

I'm happy to say, It's still alive and thriving. That is all.

Got it plumbed, taped, tested, mulched, and ready for plants and only checks bare wrist three weeks left til Frost Date.

Hugel got the same treatment, but I was a bit shy on the mulch. I usually use crushed leaves from my backyard for this, but I didn't have near enough to do everything I'm laying down. This Fall I'm definitely gonna drive through the neighborhood snatching the leaf bags folks put out.

Suckers. Just giving away free brown

Has anyone ever had any success growing poppies from the spice cabinet? Im not growing them to harvest the pods or anything and as I understand it, the type from the spice rack isn’t very active anyway. I just think it’s a pretty flower.

We're planning on growing strawberries this year. I was planning on putting them in pots with plant hangers on the sunny side of the fence, my wife suggested building a vertical tower with some dollar store tri-pots.

Both ideas make sense to me so i wanted to see if anyone had any experience/advice on what's the best way, or if it doesn't matter, or if there's a much better idea that we haven't thought of.

Thanks in advance!

It’s about 2 weeks until I start germinating some of my plants to go outside. They go out the last week of May, there’s usually a frost near the end of May. Squashes and other long plants don’t do so well here.

So what’s in everyone minds to get going this year? I usually try to get some cucumbers if they can finish in time, as well as tomatoes, peppers, peas, carrots and lettuce.

An early unexpected frost took my peppers and tomatoes last year unfortunately.

I'm grateful for my patient and loving wife. But I just finished lunch, so lets go play in the pile for a while!

Show me your playgrounds! How's everyone's season so far?!

Is this due to root rot? Temps? Or something else? Leaves have been curling down due a few weeks, and now they are starting to droop and dieback quickly over the last few days. There is some new growth still though. Do I need to uproot it and check / cut roots?

Hi! Any idea on what those are? I found them in my raised bed while preparing it for the spring season. They look like little onions but have the texture of potatoes.

I live in Georgia, USA.

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