Gardening

I think they're beautiful.

Pretty sure my tomatoes have late blight. Anything I can do? Copper fungicide? Or just nix them?

It's right by our pathway, so I can get a nice timelapse.

UK weather is more and more unpredictable. But I have 250 seeds so I'm wondering if I could/should plant some early?

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This is our second year growing garlic. We used cloves from the first year's harvest. We are having fun, but don't exactly know what we are doing! We plant the cloves, cover with dead leaves/cardboard for the winter, uncover in the spring, and wait to harvest scapes and bulbs. That's it.

What are your garlic growing tips/strategies? Do you feed your bulbs at any particular time?

It’s growing out of a daisy which I find hilarious

I planted a wild cucumber because I think the plant looks nice and pollinators seem to enjoy it. Is the fruit edible at all?

Hey all, I'm curious if anyone has experience planting shallots in the fall to overwinter in New England or a similar climate (6a-6b). I'm in the Boston area so we get cold winters but they're not brutal and I have some friends who grow garlic over winter with great success. I've read that shallots are less hardy than garlic but I don't really have any experience with root vegetables over winter so I have personally no clue!

I'm planning to try growing them in a raised bed and could potentially put row cover on them if that changes things.

We got hit by a pretty big hail storm a couple weeks ago. The leaves on the bottom started to die off. It seems like there’s some healthy leaves toward the top but I’m worried the bottom won’t survive. Is there anything I can do?

I have no idea what they are but I'm just excited to see mushrooms growing in my garden over the past couple days. It pleases me to know my soil is happy and healthy.

This is my first garden and I've decided to use clover as ground cover. It'll take a couple years to determine if it does what I hope it will accomplish. So far I'm quite happy with how things are turning out and am learning so much.

I'm currently and impatiently waiting to try the first cherry tomatoes but the first bunch should be ripe within the next week.

Fall is a great time to plant these foxglove seeds, that’s Digitalis purpurea. DM me your US address and get some free seeds! There’s no catch. I just love sharing seeds

This is a beautiful Lemon Queen sunflower in my backyard. I've planted a whole row, but this one shot up and got an early start, the rest barely have their heads grown.

I'm growing these as part of The Great Sunflower Project, a citizen science effort to track pollinators in the United States. These were chosen for their wide appeal to pollinators, and true to form, there is always at least one sort of insect buddy visiting at any given moment!

They were about to bloom too!

[Image description: a hand holding back pepper foliage, revealing several large long peppers in stages of ripening from light green to red.]

Probably all I'm going to get too, the plant isn't looking good 😭

The flavor of the fully ripe strawberry was incredible.

Most important thing this year was putting wire mesh over the plants so nothing else could grab the food before it was ready to harvest.

This is my first rose, Dublin Bay. This rose bloomed only a month after planting it. Super happy about it even though I should have snipped it to encourage more growing. Ah well.

cross-posted from: https://fernchat.esotericmonkey.com/post/33565

Back in January, I had a small potato from the market that went green, so I decided to quarter it and plant it in this old wicker basket. The soil eventually got heaped up to slightly over halfway. Not too bad!

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/1230210

Thrilled to pieces to see these bloom for the first time. 😄 I picked up these seeds at my town's local seed swap where they were labeled "Swedish Tall Red". I knew of a few other names for the cultivar but I wasn't expecting the absolute onslaught:

• Dead Viking (coool lol)
• Biskopens gråært
• Bishop’s Grey
• Bishop’s Red
• Swenson's Swedish

I guess people like this plant. Now I'm crossing my fingers and toes that it can set pods and dry in my short season!

[Attempting to figure out cross-posting, and figuring the best place to post stuff like this in general. Apologies if you've seen this a few times!]

For those who don’t know, the Ruth stout method is just laying your seed potatoes on the ground of covering with straw or hay.

I did not water these, and once the plants died back I just raked away the straw and these potatoes were laying on top of the soil, or about an inch deep.

They are tiny because I ended up planting them later than I should have and the heat was too much for them in the middle of summer.

Overall it was a great trial run and I plan to give it another go next year.