when are you sowing your garden this year?

[Hummer]

vermin 2, me 0 had a bunch more strawberries come in and something demolished them again.. time to make some moves! always battling something!

on a side note some of the leaves on my tomato plants and squash are turning yellow on the tips. causes? way to get rid of it?

It could be iron chlorosis. Try treating it with chelated iron.

Some good looking garden beds, guys. For mulch and weed control we use black landscape fabric to cover the garden except in the narrow planting rows. The fabric is then covered with wood chips which further holds moisture and keeps the fabric a little cooler. Much less weed control work. The fabric lasts about 3 years.

I used to rototill every spring but lately using the fabric I till when the fabric deteriorates. The wood chips get tilled into the soil. The decomposition of the wood chips pulls nitrogen from the soil so you should add a little more nitrogen to compensate.

[newracer]

No fruit yet but the plants are doing well.




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[Bailey Guns]

Strawberries have come and gone. We've had 2 or 3 cuttings of the lettuce already...what regrows is starting to taste a little bitter. I'll leave the rest...the deer seem to nibble on the lettuce if it's there and leave everything else alone. Pretty meager garden this year...more of an experiment. It's been 30 years since I've had a garden. Next year will be about a 1/2 acre of tilled ground. Besides what's in the pictures we have zucchini, summer squash and pumpkins. Lots of blossoms but no sign of the fruit.

Beefsteak tomatoes (probably another month):


Anaheim chile:


Jalapenos (on the menu for tonight):


Plums - I'm guessing another 45 days on these:


Blackberries - there were a few ripe ones on the vines this morning. Probably another 2 to 3 weeks:

[Irving]

I hope worms are okay with being relocated. I just caught 50ish (however many it takes to completely cover the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket) and distributed them among my garden. Plants are starting to get bigger. Basil, corn, and zucchini are doing the best, followed by some of the tomatoes, chives, and one of the watermelons. Nothing I have is even close to the size of anything else posted yet though. I hope they end up producing something for me.

Should I be picking the flowers off of peppers and tomatoes right now, or do the flowers turn into peppers and tomatoes?

[buffalobo]

The flowers become the fruit.

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[Irving]

Thanks.

So all the Finches that usually hang out in my snowball bush, now hop around in the garden. If something spooks them, they all fly up to the fence and wait 10 seconds before going back.

[Dave]

Peppers are officially dead. One big hail storm a few weeks back hurt them and some small hail, big rain and wind the other night finished them. I did order some blueberry bushes to plant, and as long as the dogs leave them in the ground I'm hopeful. They should be delivered tomorrow and planted Saturday morning.

[Hummer]

Picked the first round of apricots today. I didn't prune the trees this year so the crop is abundant but the fruit is small. It's a delicious variety.




We use apricots for many things but the first to get made are Apricot Margaritas! Yummy. Next will come the peaches....

[clodhopper]

Started harvesting summer squash. I don't care for it but the wife is super happy. I installed a sprinkler system in the garden this year on its own zone, so it runs every other night and I don't have to think about it. Garden really likes it better than my inattentive habits. Lettuce is getting close to ready. Just gotta keep the dog from sneaking in and eating it. damn dog. Tomatoes and tomatillo plants are 3-4 feet tall and starting to fruit out. Corn is coming along too.

[TheGrey]

My plants are really struggling after that hailstorm came through. I managed to save a couple of zucchini? Cucumber? Squash? But they're not happy in the pots and their leaves are getting sort of pale. No flowers.

My peach tree has peaches on it! This is the first year. I'm so excited and hopeful.