***What's growing? The official garden thread***

mickeyrat

Banner year for weeds.....

lastexitlondon

Loujoe

Nice. We are getting cucumbers now too. Just planted spinach, turnips and snap pea seeds. Maybe a little too soon, but it's been cool out.

lastexitlondon

I tried gerkins this year 
 I was gonna pickle but been too ill so i ate these small. So fresh and nice

Loujoe

Late season bump.

Jarred up some shisitos + thai peppers today. Spaced out some turnip seedlings and hope that my carrots germinate and grow soon. 
If not a fat pile of shredded leaves will be dumped over them til spring. Always try for a late harvest.

F Me In The Brain

shisitos are wonderful, good reminder to get some!

Loujoe

Hi!

Loujoe said:

*Insert Shrute Farms joke here. 

Loujoe

My love for beets is borderline insane. Would nicely compliment the radishes in your tacos. The greens are kind of good too.

Hi!

Loujoe said:

My love for beets is borderline insane. Would nicely compliment the radishes in your tacos. The greens are kind of good too.

That’s cool. I would definitely try beets in my tacos. I don’t have much going in the garden this year. I did 4 tomato plants in the ground and like 5 in pots(different varieties). The ones in the ground are doing great and the ones I planted in the pots aren’t. I think the potted plants are root bound or some sort of soil issue. I think I’ll still get fruit from them, though. Hard To Imagine someone could mess up tomato plants. I also planted different color marigolds that are doing great. What else you growin? How big is your garden?

Loujoe

So my tomatoes in pots were not doing well too. in ground doing great. I think the potted didn't like the dirt I bought. They did better in the past with dirt from my yard.
Have a 10x16 I rent in community garden. There turnips, beets, carrots (early spring) still harvesting. Now tomatoes (all diff varieties), yellow stringbeans, some peppers (hot and not) dry the hot ones for soups and stuff all winter. Basil, dill.
At home like a few tomatoes in pots. The ones that were doing bad I moved. Replaced with new plants/pots and used miracle grow soil. Those look great.  Arrugula keeps reseeding every year, spinach.  Some pumpkins in way backyard. Along house 6x20ish cucumbers, stringbeans (yellow & pole) a few hot peppers (look kinda bad) more tomatoes in ground a few potatoes that grew back from last year.

I plan to jar up a lot of it. Maybe make salsa. If it all produces I'm going to be buried in stuff. Very fortunate. And I love to garden.

A mad amount of flowers. Lots of zinnias. Mainly to support pollinators/butterflies. 

Deer are ravenous by me so everything is fenced. They got stuck in it and ripped it down the other day.   My neighbor found it across the street.

It's fun and every year reteaches me something. Mainly patience & flexibility.

Some nonsense like that.

lastexitlondon

I will post pics soon of my first  year at my new house . First time with a garden. 

Hi!

Loujoe said:

So my tomatoes in pots were not doing well too. in ground doing great. I think the potted didn't like the dirt I bought. They did better in the past with dirt from my yard.
Have a 10x16 I rent in community garden. There turnips, beets, carrots (early spring) still harvesting. Now tomatoes (all diff varieties), yellow stringbeans, some peppers (hot and not) dry the hot ones for soups and stuff all winter. Basil, dill.
At home like a few tomatoes in pots. The ones that were doing bad I moved. Replaced with new plants/pots and used miracle grow soil. Those look great.  Arrugula keeps reseeding every year, spinach.  Some pumpkins in way backyard. Along house 6x20ish cucumbers, stringbeans (yellow & pole) a few hot peppers (look kinda bad) more tomatoes in ground a few potatoes that grew back from last year.

I plan to jar up a lot of it. Maybe make salsa. If it all produces I'm going to be buried in stuff. Very fortunate. And I love to garden.

A mad amount of flowers. Lots of zinnias. Mainly to support pollinators/butterflies. 

Deer are ravenous by me so everything is fenced. They got stuck in it and ripped it down the other day.   My neighbor found it across the street.

It's fun and every year reteaches me something. Mainly patience & flexibility.

Some nonsense like that.

Very nice! I think the soil problem I have is, I used a bunch of old soil that was in pots from previous years, left in a shed, and mixed that with a bunch of ground soil. I just think , maybe, the old soil was lacking in nutrients and, maybe, the plants didn’t take to it very well. I didn’t want to pay for bagged soil(I was tryna do it on the cheap). I love the perennial herbs. I have some cilantro and chives that I’ve used a few times this year. Hopefully I get a decent amount of tomato’s this year. I will most definitely be making salsa and lots of BLT’s/ LT’s. I live in a kinda rural area. So many farms/farmers markets to shop/pickup fruits/veggies from. I went to farmers market a week ago and got $20 dollars worth of lettuce ect. I made a really big salad. Ya know? In a big bowl with a bunch of stuff in it. So good!! Lasted about a week until it started gettin’ Rusty. Happy Harvesting!🙂

dankind

Loujoe said:

My love for beets is borderline insane. Would nicely compliment the radishes in your tacos. The greens are kind of good too.

Have you ever read Jitterbug Perfume?

lastexitlondon

lastexitlondon

its only small garden but made the most of it

lastexitlondon

Hi!

^^ Very nice, man!  I like how everything is on the side like that. Really able to maximize the space and utilize the fence for climbing vines. I love the sunflowers. My second favorite to marigolds, which I typically plant as a little tribute to Kurt Cobain.

lastexitlondon

Its so small but a blank canvas so i set to making planters  and growing  climbers.  The garden is really a sanctuary  isn't  it!

Loujoe

dankind said:

Loujoe said:

My love for beets is borderline insane. Would nicely compliment the radishes in your tacos. The greens are kind of good too.

Have you ever read Jitterbug Perfume?

Not yet. Just ordered it from library as I consume my beet tops.

dankind

Loujoe said:

dankind said:

Loujoe said:

My love for beets is borderline insane. Would nicely compliment the radishes in your tacos. The greens are kind of good too.

Have you ever read Jitterbug Perfume?

Not yet.

Might want to put that masterpiece on top of your reading pile. 

Loujoe

Nice garden lastexit. Great work.

lastexitlondon

Thank you. Put that small deck area and it made all the  difference 

West Coast Dreamgirl

Nice garden @lastexitlondon
It looks like you're having a good summer and birthday xxx

West Coast Dreamgirl

lastexitlondon said:

 I look forward to seeing follow up photos to see how much they grow.

Im growing tomatoes and noticed little baby tomatoes growing this morning.

West Coast Dreamgirl

These are my tomato plants hmato plants

lastexitlondon

Remember  to feed them now they are flowering

lastexitlondon

I ate  tender stem broccoli  i grew for dinner.

West Coast Dreamgirl

Sounds nice Rob, the tendersteam broccoli. When you say feed the tomato plants, do you mean with tomato food? Do you buy that in a bottle? I usually just water the plants. The mint plant is doing well, the basil and parsley not as well, but they're in smaller pots.

lastexitlondon

Yes buy cheap tom feed £2wilko .
Dilute it about  a glug per watering can. And do once a week.