Gardening pics, hacks, successes, and or failures

[ChilliSpoons]

It’s been interesting watching these Candy Cane peppers grow and transform. Unfortunately it looks like most of my peppers will ripen just in time for me to be away in Barkley Sound.
Oh well, it’s a good trade off.

 

[walleyes]

Got our garlic drying, we put it out before our trip so its just about ready to bag up.

 

[tubber]

Italian Grandma (Gina) for canned and sauce on Youtube.

What’s the recipe for canning ? I think we’re gonna have an abundance of tomaters this year too

 

[wildmanyeah]

Starting to get a harvest

 

[Maxpri]

Took about a quarter of the trees fruit off, looking like our best harvest yet.

 

[tubber]

Opalka and San Marzano varieties.
Just 12 quarts and some sauce so far. Looks like we are past the half way point as far as what's left on the plants. In Calgary we had to pinch out the tops by August 1st then it would snow by Labour Day some times. Will wait till a bit here in Okanagan. Jade beans continue to produce, melons are coming, peppers are plentiful but mostly still green. 38C today.

 

[wildmanyeah]

My timing may be off sugar baby pumpkins

 

[Clint r]

My timing may be off sugar baby pumpkins

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Oh man, Those make the best pumpkin pies

 

[Doug]

I have four tomato plants on the patio. I picked tomatoes yesterday from them and got 4 from our patio tomato planter and just over 300 from the cherry, Romano and dipper plants. The dipper tomatoes turn orange and a light green when ripe, they are so tender and sweet. I will be growing them next year.

 

[Sea Chaser]

Love my tomaters been a great year for them

 

[Rain City]

Love my tomaters been a great year for them

Us too!

 

[Corey_lax]

Something is wrong with my tomatoes. They are all green still lol

 

[ChilliSpoons]

I have a great crop of small orange cherry tomatoes on my deck. But the two other plants in pots in my backyard suffer from blossom end rot. I guess I need more calcium in my soil???

 

[wildmanyeah]

backyard suffer from blossom end rot.

it's usually from inconstant watering or lack of watering. I found end rot to be worse in pots, in hot days like now pots need to be watered 2 to 3 times a day, I usually can only get to it once day.

calcium is a micro nutrient available almost anywhere, If you use egg shell to improve it they take 2 years to break down for the calcium to be available.

 

[WHO DAT]

Something is wrong with my tomatoes. They are all green still lol

Same here in Sooke for us, going to be a late harvest, never had so many tomato flowers die off! Regards

 

[ChilliSpoons]

it's usually from inconstant watering or lack of watering. I found end rot to be worse in pots, in hot days like now pots need to be watered 2 to 3 times a day, I usually can only get to it once day.

calcium is a micro nutrient available almost anywhere, If you use egg shell to improve it they take 2 years to break down for the calcium to be available.

I’ve been told powdered milk is a good source of calcium in the garden. Not sure if that’s a wife’s tale or not????

 

[nicnat]

it's usually from inconstant watering or lack of watering. I found end rot to be worse in pots, in hot days like now pots need to be watered 2 to 3 times a day, I usually can only get to it once day.

calcium is a micro nutrient available almost anywhere, If you use egg shell to improve it they take 2 years to break down for the calcium to be available.

I put my egg shells in the coffee grinder and grind them till they are basically dust, no end rot this year and been getting tomatoes for about 6 weeks now. the early girls are great for getting early tomatoes and some of the tastiest this year., still get some rot on a few zukes though but since I put them on a trellis a little while ago it's been better.

 

[wildmanyeah]

I’ve been told powdered milk is a good source of calcium in the garden. Not sure if that’s a wife’s tale or not????

I’ve heard that too but I don’t no if there is science to support it, there’s probably a liquid organic fertilizer that would work really well

 

[tubber]

Being on edge due to potential fire evacuation led to us put about 30lbs of tomatoes in the freezer yesterday. Perhaps a premature decision as we're still here. Anybody tried canning after freezing?

 

[CIVANO]

Tomatoes: From Frozen to Canned

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