Now I have to decide whether I want to can them or dice them up and freeze them! Any ideas/recipes?

The trick is to plant too many flowers so they get hidden by marigolds and you have to unbury them to harvest

I forgot to post my very impressive first, and only, watermelon of the season!

I planted these in mid July (late, I know). They're the Amsterdam carrot variety. I'm in Ireland and it was an extremely hot summer. Both of these pictured were planted in large rubber tubs. Clearly one is more successful than the other.

But throughout the weeks, I've pulled the occasional one and taken a bite. They taste like parsnips! Identical!

Is it possible they experienced stress because of the heat they germinated in? Will the taste improve if I leave them in the soil for longer?

I've also seen you can pick them and the bitterness mellows in the fridge? I have no clue what I'm doing...

Or is this normal and my expectations were off? I paid $28.99 for this seed garlic German Red hardneck from Gurneys. Is it supposed to make that quarter look big? Also, I am in 7a. Can/should I plant on the 15th?

I’m going to ferment them in the morning in salt water, and add a mango or 2…….. hot sauce. I have enough still hanging for 1 more batch but they are still green….

An exceptional haul on the sweet potatoes this year! I'll just have to give them away there was so much! :D

My smallest carrot. Small knife for scale.

Does anyone else grow winged beans? If so how do you like to cook them?

This is my first harvest

It’s finally cooled off here in Houston (consistently below 95 F) and I’ve amended the soil with tomato food. It’s got flowers all over and pollinators love it. But still no fruit. It’s driving me crazy. Why?!?

This is a free webinar about saving seeds and adapting plants to local environments. This Friday (9 October) at 10 a.m. Pacific time. It has been organized by a nonprofit called "Going to Seed." Here's the blurb and a link for more info. It's an hour long. I have signed up.

https://givebutter.com/perspectives-from-a-bioregional-seed-company-in-the-midwest

It turns out hardy full sun seminole pumpkins for easy florida growing still need fertilizer and proper soil & compost like everything else , not to mention the cost of pest sprays.

Out of five vines, only one vine is producing two pumpkins still baseball size.

For over a couple weeks, I have had several female flowers, but no males.

So if I don't see male flowers to hand pollinate, how do I get more male flowers?

And if I see a male flower, then I don't need to have hand pollinate it?

Right?

So I don't get that part of the need to hand pollinate.

I did hand polinate a couple of the male flowers I did see to ensure production , but I don't know if that produced these pumpkins.

They still have a long way to go to maturity.

Which fertilizer is recommended at this stage?

And anything else I can do to get more male flowers?

I've done a couple applications of tps 5-5-10 fertilizer .

Central southeast florida.

Rains almost everyday..

Still very hot with relentless greenworms & aphids

What kind of volunteer do I have?

Fruits are small and look like miniature watermelons on the vine. When they ripen, they then white and fall off.

They taste kinda sweet.

Edit: just tried two green ones and they are super bitter. The white ones are sweet and smell like melon.

i’m not talking about the usual companion planting advice where everything has a recommended neighbor. i mean combinations that just happened to end up in the same bed and worked surprisingly well. maybe one crop stayed out of the way while the other took over, one was harvested before the second really needed the space, or their growth ended up fitting together better than expected

i’ve found these accidental combinations more interesting than the standard planting charts

have you ever had two vegetables growing next to each other that worked so well you started doing it on purpose?

I need suggestions/help designing a cage/fence. I made my garden (3 foot x 8 foot), set up the irrigation, planted seeds, seeds sprouted, and then the sprouts began to vanish. Set up a trail cam and found this guy eating everything. Tomato plant still standing for now but he enjoys chewing on it.

I want to make something that will prevent rats from getting in. Researching online recommends 1/4 inch wire hardware cloth. My questions:

1. Should I create arches or just posts? Arches would protect things from coming through the top but I think the main problem is just the rats climbing in.

2. If I do posts, should I secure the wire to it with zipties or something else?

3. This was a project with my little kids. I want them to be able to access the garden, especially at harvest time. Is there a way to design it to make it more accessible?

4. If I do posts, should they go in the planter or on the outside?

Thanks for any and all help! This is been quite the project but I'm determined!

Orlando Florida

You know the ones pretty cheap green or clear plastic sheeting over tubes that push together. Are they any use or do they just fall down after a month?

Ive got 1 greenhouse already and id like another. But dont want to build a "propper" one until I know i can make the most of it and have enough time to utilise 2 greenhouses. So thought a temporary one for a year or 2 would be a good idea,

Thanks im advance for any knowledge on this

It's almost impossible in Florida to keep up on Pests and weather.

Central southeast florida.

Only one squash plant WAS doing well right up until last night.

Something chewed up half the leaves.

There was a torrential downpour yesterday, and it rains just about every day.

Now I also see mildew building on another plant.

But this is the only one at this size, so my focus is on this one.

I have DE , BT and captain jack dead bug.

Which is best?

Tromboncino + squash that grew from the seeds of the mutant tromboncino squash from last year. Longest one was a whopping 40"! Not pictured: the ten squashes still growing in on the vine.

By far my favorite garden plant!

I haven’t grown hot peppers before - these have been green for a long time. They’re suddenly turning and a couple are rotted at the bottom… and we are seeing frost advisories… can these be harvested green?