OT -- Any gardeners out there?

jimithing

Here's my mess of a garden this year.  We've had so much rain here I haven't been able to get the tomatoes tied up properly.  I need to do some tending this weekend.  In this pic there are tomato plants on the left, then squash, then zucchini, then poblano peppers.  And mixed throughout are onions and corn. 

Next house is hopefully going to have at least 2 beds and each of them will be bigger than this one.  I have this one setup with an automatic drip system and it's so great to have in the middle of the summer heat.

fishlessman

Botch said:

fishlessman said:

almost done planting, i see some spots in there for cabbage
string beans,cukes, dill, hot pepper clipped in half, thyme, oregano, thai basil, and sunflower in pot one

I'd keep an eye on the sunflower; they get BIG and I don't think I'd try to plant one in a pot, even by itself.  

if it becomes a problem ill take it out, never grew one before   those are cylinders, no bottoms and the water level is only a foot down from the grass levell, full sun for 12 hours and i only need to water maybe once a week unless it rains, the soil never gets dry in that area and my crannberry bog will eventually surround it with berries

theyolksonyou

Picked the first cucumber today.  

paqman

Very happy with VegTrug so far

Dredger

Guys, when those cucumbers start coming in by the dozen, wrap each one individually in plastic wrap and refrigerate. They'll stay fresh for a couple of weeks.

Chubbs

Nice fellas. Looking good. My garden is doing great as well. Single stem tomatoes are all carrying fruit. @Dredger thanks for the tip on cucumbers. We always end up giving a ton away before they spoil. 

Fred19Flintstone

We're finally in the ground and making it up as we go.  Maters are in pots.

Chubbs

Looking good @Fred19Flintstone

Botch

My humble herb garden (the flower arrangement I bought pre-planted).
 

 
Chubbs, I pruned my tomato plant as you suggested (hard to do, I removed half the plant) but wow it really has bushed out; thanks!  

tarheelmatt

Anyone know why the bottoms of my tomatoes are yellowing and starting to die?  The tops and rest of plant looks great. 

Chubbs

tarheelmatt said:

Anyone know why the bottoms of my tomatoes are yellowing and starting to die?  The tops and rest of plant looks great. 

Could be a combination of irregular water, some type of fungus or bugs. I prune my lower limbs all the way up to the first blossum. This increases airflow to prevent fungus and less bugs. I would prune a lot of the brown off and mix 1 TB of baking soda and 1tsp of dish soap in a 1 gallon pump sprayer and give it a good soaking in the morning. This should treat fungus and bugs. Prune those babies!!

theyolksonyou

@chubbs it's raining sideways so no pic, but I have one very healthy cucumber plant and three pale yellow plants that even put out pale fruit. Same deal?  They get watered the same and I've sprayed a few times. Now the leaves closest to the roots are brown and crumpled. 

tarheelmatt

Chubbs said:

tarheelmatt said:

Anyone know why the bottoms of my tomatoes are yellowing and starting to die?  The tops and rest of plant looks great. 

Could be a combination of irregular water, some type of fungus or bugs. I prune my lower limbs all the way up to the first blossum. This increases airflow to prevent fungus and less bugs. I would prune a lot of the brown off and mix 1 TB of baking soda and 1tsp of dish soap in a 1 gallon pump sprayer and give it a good soaking in the morning. This should treat fungus and bugs. Prune those babies!!

@Chubbs , thanks for the help.  One question though.  Just any dish soap?  We have a scented Dawn and is anti-bacterial.

AlbertaEgger

Planted May 18th this year, its been more than dry here for a few weeks, however the weather network this morning is calling for 80+mm Thursday-Sat, (3.15") but I wont believe that till I see it. 

Legume

@tarheelmatt we're seeing the same thing - weeks of unending rain caused all of our tomatoes to grow very quickly - very tall and leggy.  we didn't get out there to prune as we should have.  I cleaned out a bunch of dead or yellowing branches last night.  we're not having any issues with the tomatoes, they're fruiting really well, but the plants can't support themselves so we're having to improvise.  Once we harvest the current ton of tomatoes that have formed already, we decided we're going to pull half of them and put in some new plants.  long enough season here that it won't be a problem at all.

tarheelmatt

Legume said:

@tarheelmatt we're seeing the same thing - weeks of unending rain caused all of our tomatoes to grow very quickly - very tall and leggy.  we didn't get out there to prune as we should have.  I cleaned out a bunch of dead or yellowing branches last night.  we're not having any issues with the tomatoes, they're fruiting really well, but the plants can't support themselves so we're having to improvise.  Once we harvest the current ton of tomatoes that have formed already, we decided we're going to pull half of them and put in some new plants.  long enough season here that it won't be a problem at all.

Thanks for the reply.  I'm gonna prune them maybe this evening.  I already top pruned them as they were well over my 6' T-posts and cages.  They seem to have a lot of good growth, except for the bottom.  

This was 6/5.  Had lots of rain and now the cukes are to the top of the fence.  

rtt121

Chubbs

tarheelmatt said:

Chubbs said:

tarheelmatt said:

Anyone know why the bottoms of my tomatoes are yellowing and starting to die?  The tops and rest of plant looks great. 

Could be a combination of irregular water, some type of fungus or bugs. I prune my lower limbs all the way up to the first blossum. This increases airflow to prevent fungus and less bugs. I would prune a lot of the brown off and mix 1 TB of baking soda and 1tsp of dish soap in a 1 gallon pump sprayer and give it a good soaking in the morning. This should treat fungus and bugs. Prune those babies!!

@Chubbs , thanks for the help.  One question though.  Just any dish soap?  We have a scented Dawn and is anti-bacterial.

They typically say get one in lemon scent and as plain as possible-- not all of the degreasers etc

LHP

Here's my little garden this year- just a few varieties of tomatoes, zucchinis, a sweet pepper that is refusing to grow and a couple of container tomatillos that are growing like kudzu. 

Firemanyz

Here are my first cucumbers of the year. 

Legume

Nice @Firemanyz !

@AlbertaEgger your property is beautiful.

AlbertaEgger

Thanks @legume , good to see everyones pictures, there is some great stuff out there!

NPHuskerFL

Just pot planted and placed on our lanai some rosemary, thyme, sweet basil, mint, flat leaf Italian parsley, curly leaf parsley and 3 pots of cilantro using slow bolt seeds. They like it up there.  

LHP

I was just out killing squash bugs and managed to squirt blue bug guts directly in my eye.  Fun stuff. 

NPHuskerFL

Do flower gardens count @Chubbs ?

Chubbs

NPHuskerFL said:

Do flower gardens count @Chubbs ?

Heck yeah man! Post em up

Chubbs

LHP said:

I was just out killing squash bugs and managed to squirt blue bug guts directly in my eye.  Fun stuff. 

Pics or didn't happen

Mattman3969

Just a quick shot of our herb garden

NPHuskerFL

Just a few of the beds. 


HuskerMaMa (Tina) repainted/restored Husker Wind ornament (she did a nice job and sealed it as well).  My Grandfather made him and probably 15-20 others that he gave away to family and friends about 35+ yrs ago. 
He used to make the wooden spiral ornaments too and several others styles. 

Front Berm. 

Bed with rose trellis to the left of the driveway gate. 

Up on the lanai. Some flowers and herbs. Cilantro is coming in nicely now (we'll plant with seeds from here on out for these). 

And just took a walk up front. I'm guessing between the extreme heatwave, wind, squirrels, birds and other wildlife 3/4 of our pears on our tree are gone  
Got to go out later when it cools down to the upper 80s to get some water on our new citrus trees. Lots of fruit coming in on all the trees. I just hope they can keep most of it intact. 

Botch

Nice setups, Husker!