Crazy that it was this late in November. There are some green tomato recipes in my future.

Hey y’all! Just ripped out all the fall plants after a freeze now I’m just bare. I planted some garlic but is there any other fun winter veggies to plant? 8b/9a Central coast of CA

We had a sudden Blackfly infestation on our Kidney beans and quickly got to work with dealing with them, successfully so. We keep it under control now and it's been maybe 2 weeks since the attack.

Well you can see that some of them faired better than others but we'd like to know if they'll recover their vigour/colour or if they'll always look like this now and if that's okay?

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My first carrots. These were grown in raised beds and the soil was low so the sides cast a shadow on the smaller ones.

As in title, when do you cut the asparagus ferns back? Been thru a few hard freezes and still alive.

The Indian bhindi variety is long and spineless. Will definitely try growing next year.

i know composting leaves is good, but would i still get a good benefit if i just tossed them in there where they couldnt get out for the winter?

I plan to try some winter squash next year. I grew some bigger ones in the past, like butternut, I can hardly finish one in one day and the opened ones occupies my already full fridge. So do you folks have some recommendations for small fruit, disease resistant, sweet varieties with decent yield and store well through the winter? I live in southeast WI. Thanks in advance!

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I am a newbie and have decided that I am finally going to start a garden in the spring. I am trying to determine what I can do now to prepare. I am starting a compost pile, and planning my layout and picking up some free cinderblocks in my area for raised beds.

My question: I live in the south (zone 8a), so the ground isn’t gonna freeze for while yet (well, there is a little cold snap right now, but give it a week and we will probably have some pleasantly brisk days that aren’t too cold). Is there any benefit in working on the soil now? I want to do some decent sized beds (4- 4’x4’). And while I will be adding some soil into the raised beds of course, i have heard working some of the top soil and adding in the soil to that is helpful for plants with deeper roots. I am hoping to spread some of that initial labor intensive stuff out so I don’t have to push so hard in the spring. Is that something better suited to when temperatures remain warm? Or is it viable as long as the ground isn’t frozen?

Anyone getting things during the off season to better their growing season in spring ? When does everyone start their seed germination in zone 6A ? Chicago guy here and I can’t wait to start 😜

I planted a determinant tomato (bread and salt heirloom) 15th april zone 7a. Kept it watered, and it grew beautifully. We had a hotter then usual summer but neith did it nor my bell pepoer fruit untill temps dropped. They started fruiting in october. We just started freezing and i have 10 baby tomatoes and bell peppers. Now if course the plants are dying due to lows in the 20s.

What went wrong? I read so much and took notes on correct zone, watering, sun, heat loving etc. But its like they hated the heat. Im so confused

Thank you in advance

This year I thought I would try a little snacking tomato plant I saw at Lowe’s. It grew out of control, choked out all my other plantings (except my asparagus which seemed to enjoy the shade from the tomato plant), and now it has died for the winter and left behind thousands of tomatoes (this is after putting 2/3 of them into a trash bag).

Was I supposed to be trimming this plant or doing something else to keep it small and inside its own bed? I was worried cutting it would kill it.

Good day, can someone please tell me what is eating my tomato leaves and what can I do about it?

It’s a little daunting thinking about blanching/cold plunging/drying and bagging so much kale, but if it’s necessary i will do it.

I have a blueberry plant in a raised bed that has the leaves turning purple. Has anyone faced this ?

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This is the first year I'm bring my pepper plants inside and I'm wondering if eggplants can go through the same process or if this would kill them.

For my peppers, I'm cutting back all the branches and a sizable portion of the roots before transplanting them to pots. If I do this with my eggplants, can they survive being cut back so much? I just don't want to waste time, energy, or resources if I don't need to