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Earwigs or some other insect have been voraciously nibbling on my bean and radish leaves. I saw it mentioned in several places to put out a dish with oil and a little soy sauce. I figured it’s worth a shot.
Do you have a favorite way to keep the tiny critters away from your leaves?
I'll have to grab a photo of a more curvy one in a few days, but here's a taste.
For the curious: they're vigorous growing, climb, produce well, and taste a lot like a zucchini. If you're pressed for square footage and want a squash, they're a great choice.
On a side note, I never knew there was some with multi heads. Each node is starting its own flowering site.
I don’t know if I’m going to say anything with the seeds, but should you reduce the amount of heads for health or anything?
We completely neglected to thin the backyard apricot tree, so we have a huge crop of tiny apricots this year.
Early pickings go into the dehydrator. Later fruit will go into the freezer to eventually become jam. And of course we also eat them fresh until the whole family is sick of them.
Carrots are NOT doing great. May have failed to thin enough.
On the plus side, beans are THRIVING.
These gonna destroy my trees if I don’t deal with them?
It's always amazing where tomato seedlings pop up. We've found them all over our yard, but this has to be the oddest location yet.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17825263
[Image description: a bright green bee with pollen covered legs on a lilac flower with jagged edged petals.]
I may have gone a bit overboard. This is a mix of some beans, cucumbers, mini-cantaloupes, butternut squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, and tromboncino
This variety is called homemade pickles. I waiting until the first hot day of summer, which was June 8. I poured 1/2 cup of complete organic fertilizer into three spots each, then mixed it up with the soil. Then I billed those three spots up into low mounds 2 inches high and 18 inches wide. Then I watered the soil. After watering I pushed my fist deep into the middle of the hill and laid 5 seeds on top and sprinkled dry soil over. I DID NOT WATER until they sprouted, then I watered. As the days got hotter I laid down straw and watered wider and wider around avoiding the stem and the leaves. They just made the first male flower today. I’ll side dress fertilizer tomorrow. Hoping to can a years worth of pickles
The plants in front of them are called huazontle, a Mexican vegetable related to lambs ears.
They do turn (mostly) green when you coo them, but the kids still think they're super interesting, which is a win.
Little satire of buddies post, realized we had a frost warning a little over a month ago, and now almost everything is wilting or bolting from the heat.
The tomatoes and peppers are finally looking green and moving though, so a little plus.
sorry if this doesn't count as "gardening"--i dont know any better active communities to post this question in. i also searched google/ddg but the results felt like SEO spam to me.
someone i know planted a yoshino cherry tree last year. this is its second year, and it's growing very well without any problems. what we were wondering about is there's a lone branch right at the bottom of the trunk--does it need to be pruned off in the winter/spring or anything like that? it makes the rest of the tree look strange, but neither of us have much experience with growing trees, let alone ornamental ones.
any other advice is also appreciated :) thanks.
My in the ground bell peppers are freaking massive.
My favorite ones are starting to open up! Still have a few others to start turning as well. Need to deadhead the spent ones here today though.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17588319
[Image description: a thicc green hornworm hanging onto the stem of a tomato plant. The hornworm is speckled with little white dots, has eyespots and angular white stripes down his side, and the namesake sharp little spike of a horn on its butt.]
The lattice is a plastic “redwood lattice” and the gravel is ~6” thick 7-10mm “pea gravel”.
I used pvc panels to protect from the rain and collect the water, there’s a tarp on the north side to prevent driving rain, and a tarp under the stairs for a little more protection too.
Still need the creature comforts like a light, organize the shed, run the hoses again, etc, but pumped to have this milestone crossed off, since it was an absolutely unexpected side quest from what we wanted to get done this year, but that’s life.
Didn’t spot this one right away so it got away from me. They’re gherkins, I plan to make sweet pickles. Not with this monster though, we ate it fresh and it was delicious.
Hi yeah so I'm not sure if this fits here but I'm posting it anyway. I live in a van so my garden has to be in pots so I can move it when I have to. Also there's fuck all soil where I am right now. I'm mostly about flowers, I'm not growing any food this summer except that tomato plant in the blue crate, someone gave me that and I couldn't not give it a chance. I think it's a heritage beef tomato. There's a couple of apples in the mix, one of em flowered in spring but they were only cuttings& grafts last year so doubt it'll fruit. The rest is meant to be pretty stuff, sweet peas, calendulas (dead headed, hopefully back soon, those fuckers are bulletproof), marigolds (slug attack but couple survivors) gladioli, couple of roses, snap dragons, sunflowers be coming late due to sluggery, cornflowers, the orange crate is supposed to be meadow flowers, we'll see what happens there. Anyway, if no-one tells me not to I'll post another pic in a few weeks cos all being well it'll only get prettier
