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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
This fall I grew two varieties of cucumber and one of summer squash. I ended up with one cucumber and zero squash.
The cucumbers were supposed to be the kind that don't require pollination but I only got three or four female flowers at the very end of season when the plants were mostly dead (compared to boatloads of male flowers). The squash had normal pollination needs but I never saw a single female flower on either plant, so hand pollinating wasn't an option. Again I had tons of male flowers.
Would clipping male flowers off help if this happens again next season? I am going to source new seeds because now I have trust issues with these.
Any other suggestions on what else to do if this happens again?
Thank you kind fellow gardeners.
Location: Houston Tx USA
Moved indoors for winter. Was outside all summer. Western NY
Good day, I am from South Africa. My tamatoe plant have these lines on the leaves. Does anyone know what they are and what can I do about it?
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Around September first I planted a total of 9 lbs of seed potatoes in 3 beds, each 3.5’X3.5’. We started getting hit with frosts last week so I made the call to harvest. 22 lbs are pictured, and I pulled 9lbs last weekend. Not a bad return.
The 20 lbs. of lemons are about half of what was on our single Meyer lemon shrub.
Hi! I’m brand new to gardening and permaculture etc in every way but would like to start making plans for a low-maintenance, ideally native forest garden in my backyard in northern Illinois. Does anyone have ideas for what plants I should start with? I’d love to have as many as possible be things I can also eat in order to reduce dependence on non-local foods. I do have a decent amount of space but I’m wary of getting in over my head. There’s a lot of info out there and it’s very hard to sort through and figure out how to actually begin! Also trying to be budget conscious, which makes things even trickier.
I’m also curious folks’ thoughts on starting a small indoor winter garden with growth lights?
What is this tuber? This is from my veggie garden in Connecticut.
A few years ago I saved the seeds from a huge tomatillo that I bought at a grocery store, and I planted them. That year I had very large tomatillos; the largest was over a pound. They have continued to self-seed, and the volunteer plants have made smaller and smaller fruit; now they are about ping pong ball sized and a little smaller. Is that just because I haven't been taking care of them and have let them kinda go wild, or is it a genetic thing?
I bought a couple of tomatillos today at a Mexican market and one of them is quite large (not as large as what I had 4 years ago); should I save the seeds and start over, or just fertilize and weed and cultivate the ones that are naturalized and see if they make big fruits again?
What's happening in your garden today?
Welcome to r/vegetablegardening's daily thread - a place to ask questions, share what you're working on, and to find inspiration and motivation.
Reminders: