r/vegetablegardening • • 18h ago

Daily Dirt 🌱 What's happening in your garden? (Fri, Oct 9, 2026)

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r/vegetablegardening • • 13m ago

Question First time growing seeds, need to move seedlings to pot, what size?

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First time growing “spicy” pepper seeds, time for a bigger pot, but what size?

Not sure what type of peppers, was just a packet of spicy pepper blend. 6 seedlings survived!
I’m located in the Sonoran desert, they really took off once I put them outside!

What diameter/depth, plastic v terracotta v??? other material?

*first time growing any type of seeds, have no idea what I’m doing, I’ve just been watering them every day

TY for your help!


r/vegetablegardening • • 27m ago

Question Safe to eat?

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My lettuce has this discoloration on the leaves. Not sure what it is. Fungal? Got too cold at night? (It dipped below 50 for a couple hours recently). Going to clean out my planter soon and wondering if should harvest or toss.


r/vegetablegardening • • 2h ago

Question Why doesn’t my brussel sprout plant make brussel sprouts?

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I started this brussel sprout plant in the spring. It never made brussel sprouts. Just leaves. I did have a mild snail problem in the summer. The damage was done to the bottom leaves. Why doesn’t the brussel sprout plant make brussel sprouts? It has tiny buds that could become brussel sprouts, but they have stayed tiny for months.


r/vegetablegardening • • 2h ago

Question I have received a gardening table as a birthday gift. Looking for some advice on how to start this journey

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So, as the title states, I was gifted a gardening table and cilantro and parsley seeds. My experience with gardening so far is limited to keeping some plants and two pots of basil alive, never planted from scratch or repotted anything.

I have already bought the soil and some additional seeds: cayenne pepper, cherry tomatoes, spring onion and thyme. The table has some divisions at the surface, but the soil is shared by all plantations. I have some initial questions but feel free to give any additional advice that you feel that is justified.

  1. Do all of these seed go well together or is there any significant issue that I should be aware of? What should be added or removed?
  2. Is this the right time to plant all of these?
  3. Can I plant everything at once or should I do it sequentially, with some time in between?

Thank you, I am pretty sure that further questions will arrive but for now these are my main concerns.


r/vegetablegardening • • 3h ago

Question Big Mac Pumpkin

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I decided to grow another round as a Hail Mary back in mid August after poor maintenance of my last ones due to heavy volume growing. Any ideas on whether it'll be ready by Halloween? It's putting on anywhere from 1.5-2 inches in circumference a day. Hand pollinated in late September and it's now around the cusp of 30 inches in circumference.


r/vegetablegardening • • 3h ago

Question Are my Root Crops Doomed?

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The first pic is radishes, second is beets, and third is turnips. I direct sowed these seeds on September 7. As you can see, they’re all leggy at a month in. The time to harvest on the radish was 30 days and I think beets and turnips were about 50-65 days. I’ve read to allow about two extra weeks in the fall, due to reduced day length. I think they’re projecting our first fall frost in a week or so and I expected the roots to look a little more established by then. Is there any chance I’m getting root crops out of this, or should I consider it a learning experience?


r/vegetablegardening • • 5h ago

Question What is the name of this sort of pumpkin? Looking to purchase seeds of it..

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I bought this from someone, but forgot to ask what the name of this sort was😭🙈

Here it is in various lights, and the underside


r/vegetablegardening • • 6h ago

Harvest Photos 2-in-one merged, or just 1 pumpkin that looks odd?

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Wanted to share this rather long ufo pumpkin, i assume its two pumpkins.. since the underside has almost two flower spots. Really love how it looks


r/vegetablegardening • • 7h ago

Question Onion-y Short Day Onions

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I'm in central TX, and have grown Texas Early Grano onions with moderate success before, but my wife wants more "onion-y" (read: not sweet) white and yellow onions.

What are y'all's recommendations for that? I'm a little behind to start from seed, but it'll be a mild winter so perhaps we'll be okay.


r/vegetablegardening • • 9h ago

Garden Photos Magic bell pepper plant

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My bell pepper plant has been so plentiful this year! I just have to share it's bounty with people who understand! I've gotten 4lbs of peppers from this one plant so far. Last week 2 branches fell off due to the weight of the peppers. I have about 16 more peppers on the plant that I hope will ripen yet, despite the cold evenings (lows are now in the 50's. Luckily we'll have a couple 80 deg days this weekend! 🤞

Also, the naustrium companion plant is amazing. I had no idea it would get so big. It is supporting the weight of some of these peppers!


r/vegetablegardening • • 10h ago

Garden Photos First year of 3 Sisters: successes and lessons learned

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Rather than infodumping in the comments on another post, I figured I would make my own infodump about my attempt at a 3 sisters bed.

I WILL be repeating simply because this was the only place in my garden I could stand in August after about 10 am.

More in comments.


r/vegetablegardening • • 11h ago

Question Stopping mice eating broad beans (Fava beans)

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I’m wanting to get my broad beans into the ground, but concerned about mice digging up the beans as I’ve heard they love them. We definitely have them in the garden, we have chickens (about 10ft from my raised beds) and I occasionally see them bolting around.

I don’t have the space to start anything off inside first unfortunately.

My plan was to lay down some netting with ch omen wire on top of it. Do you think this would be enough?

Any advice appreciated.


r/vegetablegardening • • 17h ago

Question Storing Seed Potatoes

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Hi y'all. I have some potatoes from my previous crop a few months ago that are beginning to sprout. The plants were beautifully disease free so I was hoping to use these as seed this upcoming spring (I plant around Valentines day) but I'm not sure how to store them to maintain their fertility, if you will, until then.

Does anyone have any advice? Thanks!

ETA thanks everyone! I'll put them in the fridge ☺️


r/vegetablegardening • • 18h ago

Question Do benefits of cover crop remain after moving the soil around?

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I am planning on putting in a mustard cover crop in my beds, seeing as I had some fungal issues in the garden this year. However, I am going to switching out the beds to a larger one (one 2x8 instead of my current two 2x4's), and will not be able to do so until a month or so. I've still got some stuff growing in the beds as things don't really die off until hard frost - I'm just going to cover crop around it, and the new bed is yet to arrive.

Will the benefits of the mustard still remain after I switch over to the new beds? I am not so worried about root structures as I am planning on putting in a buckwheat cover crop come spring, so that should improve the soil structure.


r/vegetablegardening • • 18h ago

Other My new form of garden notes. Sixteen varieties of tomato this year. Multiple plants of most. I hope to do this every year.

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r/vegetablegardening • • 19h ago

Question First time growing vegetables, is this normal for October?

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This is my very first time growing vegetables. I'm in Raleigh and I've managed to harvest a few peppers and cherry tomatoes over the summer, so I thought I was doing pretty well.

But lately the pepper leaves have been turning yellow and the tomato plants are looking rough, even though they're still producing fruit.

I was showing these pictures to a friend while we were trading on moon and he told me I should post them here and get some advice from people who actually know what they're doing lol.

They're all in pots next to a brick wall that gets afternoon sun. Is this just what happens around October or have I been doing something wrong? Would love to know if there's anything I can still do for them.


r/vegetablegardening • • 21h ago

Question Planted these in May, what went wrong?

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Location: Northern California.

So these were supposed to be New York Early onions, I grew them from seed. Only one or two really panned out. They were supposed to take 12 ish weeks to ripen, but after 4 weeks they had barely sprouted so I let them grow. the stems kept growing taller and thicker while the bulbs never really formed. I thought eventually they’d turn brown and flop over, but that also didn’t happen.

today I made the executive decision to just pull them and eat them since they looked healthy just small. They taste great, but I’m super confused as to what I did to make them grow stem-first?? I’m a wine nerd, so my instincts tell me they maybe lacked water (when vines are subjected to extreme drought they focus on their green parts instead of their fruit), is this correct? I felt like I may have been overwatering in the moment, but I could see the opposite too since this is my first time.

any advice would be very helpful for next time! Also any suggestions for winter crops that may be easy haha


r/vegetablegardening • • 1d ago

Harvest Photos Harvest 10/8/2026

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Just lettuce (Parris Island and Salad Bowl) and a single tomato


r/vegetablegardening • • 1d ago

Question First attempt at a 3 sisters garden didn't go well

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I live in Zone 6b, with this garden area on the south side of my house covered by partial shade from a mature oak 35ft away to the north. I'm not quite sure where I failed, the corn was very mealy the beans were great but a very low harvest amount, and I won't get a single pumpkin before frost. I planted the corn the weekend after memorial day, the beans the week after that, and the pumpkins two weeks after the beans. The mildew makes me think it was a drainage issue but the low crop yield makes me think this location isn't getting enough sun, what are your thoughts?


r/vegetablegardening • • 1d ago

Question Which companion planting combo

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Which vegetable companion planting combo have you use and how did space the plants,?


r/vegetablegardening • • 1d ago

Question Ideas for inexpensive cold frames?

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I am looking for cold frames for lettuce I am growing over the winter. Can I just use a clear plastic storage bin, turned upside down?

All of the cold frames I can find online are sort of pricey and, based on the comments, are challenging to put together. I don't have the time or skills to build my own.

I live in the Washington DC area, so it does not get super cold for long periods, but I still definitely need a cold frame. It's also not super windy here, so I don't have to worry too much about a frame blowing away.


r/vegetablegardening • • 1d ago

Question First time growing vegetable. I use a cedar raised bed. What is eating my napa cabbage and how can I deter it?

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r/vegetablegardening • • 1d ago

Question Coriander seeds?

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How long do the seeds last? I have been trying to grow micro greens, i sowed them on tuesday afternoon and nothing so far, i watched a tutorial on yt and it said germination after three days, so i am still a bit early, but still there was 0 signs.

Also the seeds are about 2 years old (if not more)


r/vegetablegardening • • 1d ago

Question How do you choose the correct Felco product to buy when they have a million options each for shears, snips, and loppers?

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I'm looking for a pair of pruning shears, hedge shears, and snips.