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Vardaman sweet potato harvest NE Texas (info below in comments.)

3 Comments
2024/11/30
21:30 UTC

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Whose poop is by the base of my green onions? Friend or foe?

7 Comments
2024/11/30
21:21 UTC

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Confused. 1st time garden

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

9 Comments
2024/11/30
19:45 UTC

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First time tomato gardener, how do I avoid a complete tomato’s takeover in the future?

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.

11 Comments
2024/11/30
19:51 UTC

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What to do about clovers and weeds in planter box?

5 Comments
2024/11/30
18:19 UTC

4

Tomatoes pests

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

1 Comment
2024/11/30
14:46 UTC

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I harvested a large tote of kale last night. I plan to refrigerate a few gallon bags, and i suppose freeze the rest. Does lacinato kale require blanching before freezing in your experience?

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.

33 Comments
2024/11/30
15:01 UTC

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Blueberry leaves turning purple

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

3 Comments
2024/11/30
05:52 UTC

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Daily Dirt - Nov 30, 2024

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.

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1 Comment
2024/11/30
05:01 UTC

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How to transplant eggplants into pots indoor?

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

11 Comments
2024/11/30
03:54 UTC

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Should I remove male flowers when that's all a plant is producing?

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

14 Comments
2024/11/30
01:50 UTC

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Can someone tell me what’s wrong?

Moved indoors for winter. Was outside all summer. Western NY

4 Comments
2024/11/29
18:02 UTC

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Tamato plant

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?

0 Comments
2024/11/29
16:49 UTC

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Daily Dirt - Nov 29, 2024

What's happening in your garden today?

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1 Comment
2024/11/29
05:01 UTC

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Thanksgiving lemon and potato harvest

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.

6 Comments
2024/11/28
22:43 UTC

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Getting started in northern Illinois

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?

0 Comments
2024/11/28
18:45 UTC

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What is this tuber? Vegetable Identification Help Please.

What is this tuber? This is from my veggie garden in Connecticut.

1 Comment
2024/11/28
19:23 UTC

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Can you still eat that bumpy zuccini? Do you know what it is?

6 Comments
2024/11/28
10:36 UTC

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Tomatillo size

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?

9 Comments
2024/11/28
05:58 UTC

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Daily Dirt - Nov 28, 2024

What's happening in your garden today?

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2 Comments
2024/11/28
05:01 UTC

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Whats attacking (?) this lady bug?

2 Comments
2024/11/28
01:10 UTC

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