Gardening pics, hacks, successes, and or failures

[SteelyDan]

Here's some grapefruit kush in a bed

 

[wildmanyeah]

Some updates from the garden.

 

[Michael J]

Garden needed a drink. 91degrees F.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Second harvest of radish’s look ready, carrots look close, peas look like they are about to be 500 hundred of them. Lettuce doing well. Some cherry tomatoes pooping out and cucumbers look nice. The strawberry’s are just finishing up.

 

[wildmanyeah]

blueberrys, put some betting over then hope to get some

 

[Gong Show]

 

[ChilliSpoons]

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I see tomatoes

 

[wildmanyeah]

are you guys taking any measures to protect your plants for the upcoming heat wave. My plants get about 50/50 sun shade on account of being under a cherry tree. Do i need to use shade cloth?

Says its suppose to be 40C saturday, sunday, monday

 

[Breakin"even]

I'm in full sun and setting up a cloth, I have never gardened 40C, yikes!
Just guessing that you should be allright, but I'm sure garden would appreciate
the extra shade.

 

[jim morrow]

I pulled up the last Spinach row, and composted. lots of little green leaf hoppers in them...
I have harvested 3 cucumbers and 2 zuchini, so will try my carrots next. Come on tomatoes...

 

[wildmanyeah]

So we started some tomatoes early to see if we could get an earlier harvest. As past plants were getting tomatoes in august and then by September the cold fog would roll in and split them

So I would have a picture of a couple of nice red cherry tomatoes but my kids picked and ate them before i got home from work.

anyways, we have harvested our carrots and planted some more, we harvested yellow beets and planted some red beets.

 

[IronNoggin]

Between the rather mild winter and the last heat wave, our garlic was ready for harvest yesterday. Earliest it has ever been! I'm OK with that as we will now grow a crop of small turnips in the same bed and they'll have plenty of time to grow to full term.

You can see that the lower 3/4 of the plants have browned up in the following picture. The plants have shrunk by a foot and a half in size as they matured:

This is what I look for as to timing the harvest - only a few leaves still green right on top:

The bulbs were all well formed and we again realized a nice average size. Remember, these are all the product of last year's bulbil plantings - that experiment is paying off very well:

Sorted, graded and hung up to cure (the window behind them gets shuttered so they do not see much light):

After having a 4 foot wall of green screening the BarBee / sitting area, it sure looks barren with only the Bubil producers and a couple of late volunteers:

Last year's Bubil crop, next year's seed, is doing rather well:

And this year's Bulbil crop - seed for 2 years down the line, are forming up nicely as well:

We'll be harvesting those within a couple weeks I'd guess, which besides putting the garlic into the cold room after they cure, will be a wrap for this season's garlic efforts.

99 in hand again!

Cheers,
Nog

 

[wildmanyeah]

Wow what a great harvest

 

[Breakin"even]

we will now grow a crop of small turnips in the same bed and they'll have plenty of time to grow to full term.

Great looking garlic Nog. and thank's for the Turnip tip, I'm going give it a try.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Started this plant from seed in March, put it outside in late June, 40c heat wave rolls around and this shoots out.

 

[Breakin"even]

Finally! First pepper and tomatoes, seems like it took along time.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Finally! First pepper and tomatoes, seems like it took along time.

your ahead of me on tomato's, did you single stem and remove suckers, ?

 

[Breakin"even]

your ahead of me on tomato's, did you single stem and remove suckers, ?

I let the plant grow naturally with multiple stems, Once the dominant stems establish I
remove lower suckers and leaves. As they grow I look for new sucker that can't find light and remove them.
My plants are 4' tall now and this was the first time from seed. They are "Better Boy and Big Beef", Those
two tomatoes where the only ripe ones. the rest have a way to go before there ripe

 

[kingspring]

Growing a pumpkin!

 

[wildmanyeah]

Growing a pumpkin!

Nice!!