Garden 2022

[Norseman]

I think they went in the ground mid Nov. They were slow in the long cool wet spring

[Thaleia]

Re: Carrots. I have a feeling it has to do with my water because I don't have much luck with most root veggies. I do fine with alliums but not great with potatoes, sufficient but not great.Turnips, parsnips and beets are mostly failures if I have a dry early summer like this year and have to water every day.

Oh interesting. I believe our water is considered a touch hard.

germination is the hardest part of carrots, imo. the soil has to remain consistently moist but not soggy for two weeks

Aww yes, I should have added, I cover the beds with lids or cardboard to help retain the moisture, and check them near daily.

[John_B]

germination is the hardest part of carrots, imo. the soil has to remain consistently moist but not soggy for two weeks

We've had good germination the past few years by covering our beds with burlap coffee sacks. It keeps the birds off and the ground from drying off too much.

[Norseman]

Yep, both good tricks. We've used straw as well.

Yanked the peas the other day... purple-podded "Sugar Magnolia" variety were legit nine feet tall. Faves this year were "Cascadia" snaps and "Green Arrow" shelling.

[gravitylover]

My pole beans have climbed 9 feet up the blackberry cane. A few of the pics in my album show string beans appearing to grow out of blackberry bunches.

[Boissal]

Still slow this year. I need to get pics.
On the pepper front we're starting to see a solid crop of shishitos and some of the ajvarskis we didn't grow last year (made ajvar out of those the year before, incredibly tasty and a good way to reduce the eggplant crop). Squashes are not super active although we did eat a few round zuccs and a couple pattypans. Melons are looking better than usual. Ground cherries are growing vigorously but so far no fruits. The bumper crop for the year appears to be eggplants, the fuckers are out of control. Since we switched to growing tiny ones instead of the more common big guys we get massive amounts. Tomatoes are pathetic, gigantic plants as usual but barely any fruits out.

[thedude2340]

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At first glance I thought you took a picture of an extension cord my wife “put away”

[skaredshtles]

At first glance I thought you took a picture of an extension cord my wife “put away”

I laffed.

[Thaleia]

Greens are doing great, but with the current heat they won't last much longer



Raspberrys are out of control, in ground peppers are tiny.



Celery and green onions are ready

[Norseman]

Lawn is finally going dormant. Such a relief as I have to cut it all winter.

Red flowers are Crocosmia, a hummingbird fave.

[BCMtnHound]

Lawn is finally going dormant. Such a relief as I have to cut it all winter.

Red flowers are Crocosmia, a hummingbird fave.

My wife was remarking of them walking around Victoria a couple days ago. Very stunning. Might give them a try back home in the interior now that climate change has brought us to 6a over the past decade or so.

[gravitylover]

I'm able to grow things from 1k miles south now. Last year and again this year one of my most successful plants is a Mexican Sunflower which is great because Monarchs are adapted to it already and they love it. This year I'm having great luck with an Italian squash that shouldn't be as happy as it is this far north The flowers started popping on them yesterday and today there's fruit already set. Yay

[gravitylover]

The first red tomatoes, should be ready to eat tomorrow

Mexican Sunflower
Tomato, marigold and nasturtium
Melons, celery, peppers, tomatoes

[KQ]

AND

https://www.facebook.com/nabil.khubi...3389/?fs=e&s=m

[Aldo]

Starting to stack up!

[skaredshtles]

Starting to stack up!

Got damn those are some good lookin' 'maters.

[gravitylover]

So all of a sudden my biggest and best tomato plant is going yellow. I think I used a fertilizer it didn't like and I may have killed it

Shera, I think the Great Mullein is done flowering so I assume the entire cola is one huge seed pod. I can cut it off and send it to you if you'd like, PM an address.

[Thaleia]

I got some sort of disease last season that turned my tomato plants a sickly yellow, pretty sure some type of mosaic, and it spread to all the tomato plants in that section, killing them. Hope your fertilizer assumption is correct.

[skaredshtles]

I think I'm gonna grow fava beans next year - I can't find ANYWHERE to buy them 'round here.

[Norseman]

I think I'm gonna grow fava beans next year - I can't find ANYWHERE to buy them 'round here.

https://territorialseed.com/pages/se...ts-page?q=fava

https://www.rareseeds.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=fava


We just picked a bunch and made some ballin beanfritters. Fava/mint/feta etc

[abraham]

I just found the remnants of most of nearly ripe my favas today. Not sure if it was the raccoons or the squirrels.

[Boissal]

That tomato pic is impressive, some chunky specimens in there!
Finally ate one orange cherry yesterday, probably a few days too early but I couldn't let Ms Boissal have it. Or the dog.

[skaredshtles]

That tomato pic is impressive, some chunky specimens in there!
Finally ate one orange cherry yesterday, probably a few days too early but I couldn't let Ms Boissal have it. Or the dog.

We've got an orange cherry this year, and that fruit is fucking AMAZING.

[Boissal]

We've got an orange cherry this year, and that fruit is fucking AMAZING.

Oh yeah it's like crack for sure, perfect balance of sweetness and acidity and the plants tend to be massively productive.
I think the only tomato I like more is the black prince cherry, it's a dark variety of the orange one, possibly even more productive, and less acidic. I will eat dozens every time I go to the garden. They rarely make it inside the house.

[gravitylover]

I got some sort of disease last season that turned my tomato plants a sickly yellow, pretty sure some type of mosaic, and it spread to all the tomato plants in that section, killing them. Hope your fertilizer assumption is correct.

Ya know it might be that. The whole bed has the same weird texture on the leaves, peas, beans, squash, everything has this mottled/freckled kinda look and then the leaves yellow and fall off. In 3 days it's gone from beautiful and lush to sickly So much fukn effort and time to have the 2 main beds have this happen. Sux