My eggplants grew so tall they were up against the grow light. I adjusted the lights after work but there is visible damage to leaves. Should I prune the leaves?

Bought Triple Crown blackberry and Heritage raspberry bushes (shrubs? trees?) over the weekend. I'm in zone 7, southern Ontario, with last frost date still a month off. These are both hardy in my zone. Am I able to pot them up and put them outside now, or do I need I still need to wait until the end of the month?

No experience with fruit trees at all and I don't want to kill them.

Hello all!

I apologize for posting once again, I just have so many questions and not enough experience 😅

I have everything else planned for the season and have things under the grow light right now. But the mistake that I may have made was germinating my dark zucchini too early. I had just started germinating it in a cell 5 days ago and its about an inch out of the ground right now.

I hear that its best to start zucchinis when its warmer out.. I'm in 7a, southern PA. I dont think ill be getting some warm weather for zucchinis until mid/Late May...while my last frost date is April 30ish.

Should I just restart a germination of my zuchinis 3 week out from tidat or am I just mistaken? I will be growing it in a growbag.

Got some seedlings going strong. Is it time (no pun intended) to thin them out? Or let them go longer.

I just removed a lot of weeds and roots that was in one of my raised beds. Do i just need to add some compost before i transplant my plants in about 6 weeks? I also have some rabbit manure that i can add. Do i need to add any top soil or garden soil?

This is my first year of doing inground gardening and using raised beds. Recently moved into a new home that already has some raised beds and a lot of space for gardening. Everyone has mentioned that going to your local landscape supply to get compost would be cheaper than buying it in stores. I called the nearest landscape supply and they said they have lead compost that i can buy in bulk for a reasonable price. Wanted to know if leaf compost would suffice? I know a lot of compost contain a lot of other things besides eaves that makes the compost have a lot more nutrients. I'm currently making my own but won't be able to use it anytime soon.

(Zone 7b/8a)

When I went to the plant nursery to buy two apple trees, I told the store owner what we wanted. Two trees we could prune and keep dwarf size, and that could pollinate each other.

He assured me the Arkansas Black Apple tree and the Ambrosia apple tree were perfectly compatible. So we bought the trees and planted them, but a month later, I saw my black apple tree already producing buds, but not my ambrosia tree. I got curious and found out the black apple tree is sterile? It needs another two trees? Okay, annoying, but fine. We have room for one more tree.

But, to my great annoyance, the charts I've been looking at say the ambrosia tree and the Arkansas black tree aren't even compatible in the first place.

I figure if the ambrosia can't do anything for the black apple tree, I ought to just get a gala or granny smith for the ambrosia tree and give the arkansas black away.

Am I worrying over nothing or am I right?

I have never sucessfully grown a pepper from seed. They never come out of the soil, so last year I tried starting them paper towels. The baby root turned brown immediately after coming out of the seed. didnt even get a chance to sprout.

This year i started a few in paper towels again, the first one browned before sprouting. So I got new seeds and put them in a mix of peat moss and a little bit of manuer. I read that peppers need a lot of heat to germ, so I put them next to a radiator in the sunroom. But im neevous ill end up spending weeks waiting for something thats not gonna come up. And ill miss out on another years worth of peppers to dry/store bc these are obscure and cant be found prestarted in nurseries. Advice?

I have never sucessfully grown a pepper from seed. They never come out of the soil, so last year I tried starting them paper towels. The baby root turned brown immediately after coming out of the seed. didnt even get a chance to sprout.

This year i started a few in paper towels again, the first one browned before sprouting. So I got new seeds and put them in a mix of peat moss and a little bit of manuer. I read that peppers need a lot of heat to germ, so I put them next to a radiator in the sunroom. But im neevous ill end up spending weeks waiting for something thats not gonna come up. And ill miss out on another years worth of peppers to dry/store bc these are obscure and cant be found prestarted in nurseries. Advice?

It doesn't matter what brand or store you buy. Plastic shelves like that shown all have an inside width of 30.5 inches. I would love 36 inches, or even better, 4 feet to accommodate the standard 4 foot grow lights. Wood is not ideal since growing plants means water will be spilled. Metal shelves are to expensive and also not large enough when they are affordable.

Didn’t even eat the whole strawberry. 😭

I covered the others in organza bags to ripen, but you win this time bird!

I’m VERY new to veggie gardening and I just started my first seeds yesterday. I got a small greenhouse that holds quite a few pots on its shelves. Would this be sufficient in the long term for my veggies? I can get some pretty big pots in there. I only have tomato and bell/jalapeño peppers. I just don’t want my dogs to get into the plants because it’s toxic to them.

Hello,

I set up a grow tent in my classroom to show them what their tomato plants need to grow.

I grew over 100 tomato plants last year but had them at my home so I could keep the soil at perfect moisture.

We put 2-3 seeds in each cell and looked after them but when it got to the weekend I came to school everyday to water them but on 2-3 of those days the soil was bone dry.

If we keep the soil moist now will these seeds grow? I checked the seeds and there is no sign of germination.

DAY 1 Tuesday - planted seeds moist soil

DAY 2 Wednesday - moist soil

DAY 3 Thursday - moist soil

DAY 4 Friday - soil bone dry then sprayed with water mister

DAY 5 Saturday - soil bone dry then sprayed with water mister

DAY 6 Sunday - soil bone dry then sprayed with water mister

DAY 7 Monday - very moist soil (husband)

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Should we keep watering and make sure it STAYS moist or should we plant new seeds? I have learnt my lesson and will now be taking home the seed trays/heat mat so I can keep them moist.

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Title says it all - anyone attempted or had any luck growing these two together? My theory (that I just thought of on the spot) is that the corn/maize would provide some shelter for the sweets pots, who would then take on the role of the squash in the three sisters-style relationship. Is this a good idea? Or do sweet pots need too much light? Thanks in advance!

I’ve had a problem with pillbugs devouring every seedling I plant within 24 hours, they’re in every single bed. I know it’s them because I went to check on the plants to see if the outdoor cats had gotten to them, only to see them being actively shredded and drug under the ground by these cretaceous little monsters.

I have a plan to get rid of them, and I’m wondering if you guys think it will work.

My seedlings have matured while I’ve been sick the past few weeks, and haven’t been out much to care for them apart from watering every few days when I’ve had the energy, and they need to be planted in the next week or so before they completely outgrow their containers, so I need to get rid of the pillbugs fast.

My plan is to spray the beds with Maggie’s Farm 3 in 1 Garden Spray, then a layer of Sevin Dust, and I’m debating a layer of coffee grounds for good measure. Do you think this will work to get rid of the pillbugs quickly? I see so many every time I turn the dirt over and I’m afraid they’re going to devour what’s left of my plants

The pot it's in is really small so I didn't think it would even create any cucumbers, but it managed to grow one. So I'm also wondering if the size will be stunted because of this.

Mostly tomatoes and peppers! I tried to take everyone’s advice in this sub!

Got in the game sporadically last summer, trying to make sure I start this season off right. Just a couple questions (we need a simple Q&A discussion thread!)

Should I be completely tossing my used dirt from last year? Or can I just reactivate it with some compost or fresh potting soil?

I’m mostly stuck with grow bags because of the HOA so all my soil is gonna be prepackaged. Is there much of a difference between raised bed and garden soil? Last year I think I just did potting soil and mushroom compost. I didn’t start fertilizing until right before flowering last year so I want to feed them through the veg state this time. Should I test the dirt I buy still to get an accurate NPK to aim for? Or just get something equal in all of them? 20-20-20 since it’s all bag soil?

I’ve got some overwintered peppers that I’m hoping come back, should I be transplanting them in new dirt as well? Or revitalizing the dirt somehow?