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

Loujoe

tempo_n_groove said:

highlights said:

Loujoe said:

good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

Love this time of year.

I’ve been referring to my garden as the dill forest this year - it’s just nuts! I didn’t have much of it last year but I guess I’ve created the perfect conditions for it everywhere outside of my raised beds. Ugh hope to get it under control but at least it smells good I guess

Also, definitely do turnips! I also do beets but I know not everyone likes them. I make a Polish soup called Botwinka with the small ones & the greens. Not sure what zone you’re in, but kohlrabi is another one that I do a second planting for Fall. All your produce looks great & hopefully you don’t have anymore bugs to deal with! 

I've let the caterpillars take over my dill.  We like the butterflies so we are anticipating that soon.

sup

Loujoe

Pretty one. Started from seed and never tried this variety. Yellow ruffled. Say hollow on inside and good for stuffing. 

Loujoe

canning up a quart of beets now. Mostly smal but happy with harvest. Have a pile of stringbeans too. Pickling them the same way but added peppercorns, herbs and some garage dried scotch bonnet hot peps. Hate to waste the harvest so canning it up. Have a bunch of cucumbers too. Fortunate. 

Loujoe

lastexitlondon

Beautiful 

Loujoe

tempo_n_groove

Loujoe said:

tempo_n_groove said:

highlights said:

Loujoe said:

good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

Love this time of year.

I’ve been referring to my garden as the dill forest this year - it’s just nuts! I didn’t have much of it last year but I guess I’ve created the perfect conditions for it everywhere outside of my raised beds. Ugh hope to get it under control but at least it smells good I guess

Also, definitely do turnips! I also do beets but I know not everyone likes them. I make a Polish soup called Botwinka with the small ones & the greens. Not sure what zone you’re in, but kohlrabi is another one that I do a second planting for Fall. All your produce looks great & hopefully you don’t have anymore bugs to deal with! 

I've let the caterpillars take over my dill.  We like the butterflies so we are anticipating that soon.

sup

That's them Lou!!!

tempo_n_groove

Loujoe said:

Take crushed eggshells and spread them around your gardens base.  The shells are like razorblades to slugs.
It's good for the soil too.

tempo_n_groove

Anyone else have shitty cucumbers this year?  Really bad blight for me.  I planted 8 and 1-1/2 survived...

I think i am going to change out my soil this year.

Loujoe

tempo_n_groove said:

Loujoe said:

Take crushed eggshells and spread them around your gardens base.  The shells are like razorblades to slugs.
It's good for the soil too.

Smart. I've learned that a good gardener is one that farms the soil before anything else.

Cucumber harvest is ok by me. A little more than enough. Plants went bad pretty quickly with one hanging in there. I know I overcrowded the plants. Even the ones with proper s.    P.  A.    c in.    G  went kinda bad.

lastexitlondon

The weather extremes fuck a lot of plants up . I had 2 mini cucs and they did ok. But the leaves are like burnt it's starting again higher up now the weather is more stable

Loujoe

lastexitlondon said:

The weather extremes fuck a lot of plants up . I had 2 mini cucs and they did ok. But the leaves are like burnt it's starting again higher up now the weather is more stable

Interesting. Didn't think of that. Here we are getting really cool nights now and warm days. My one cucumber plant has rebounded. It's like "ok I'll grow now!"

lastexitlondon

Yeah exactly the same. The plants can't regulate. Mine are doing the same now it's more consistent 

Loujoe

happy with these turnips. Have a bunch more still getting bigger.

lastexitlondon

Brilliant 

tempo_n_groove

This is all about pollinators. Still doing their thing. 

tempo_n_groove

Celebrating some pollinators still. 

Loujoe

Heck yes^^
All about that.
Interesting sunflower in a sunflower.

hauntingfamiliar

B-E-A Utiful!

Leezestarr313

It's been a nice season, and things are still growing. Good year for tomatoes and cucumbers and acorn squash here. And this year I have planted more roses and started an enfleurage with mango butter to try and trap some of the gorgeous scent to make into a body butter.