Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

..Festucca.. a three plant clump..really like fescue

 

June and stuff is growing nicely. We are going to be loaded with grapes this year. Thomasin seedless.



2 of Flame seedless.



4 in 1 apple



Persimmon



Olive

 

Most of all these have been in ground just over a year, many were in pots previous.

The citrus

Bearrs lime



Moro Blood Orange



Calamanci (small asian strong flavor citrus)



Calomondin (like above)



Improved Meyer Lemon

 

I've heard you can put a line of liquid dish soap down and they will not cross it, heard it but never tried it.

 

We're having issues with our bell peppers to this year due to rain. They're really green and leaves are huge, but no blossoms or fruit. Hoping for the same ha ha.

We also had a week long period in May where daytime temps were in the mid-90s along with lots of rain, which caused the broccoli to "overgrow" and go directly to seed. Luckily our growing season is pretty long so planning on replanting next week. Might add some cabbages too to make sauerkraut and kimchi.

Otherwise, everything is doing pretty well.

Question for anyone . . . we've always had issues with white spot fungus on our squash and cucumbers, but the rain this year is making it a huge PITA. I've been keeping up by spraying each and every leaf, top and underside, with copper fungicide, but it's a 1-2 hr process every 7-10 days with 25+ plants. I've read that the spores overwinter in the soil. Is there a good soil treatment that can get rid of the stuff more permanently without also harming the beneficial fungus/bacteria in the soil?

 

Hang a bar or two of Irish Spring (or similarly stinky, cheap bar soap) on a post near the garden. Dish soap will only keep them away until you get a good rainstorm, then you have to reapply it. My parents don't have a fenced garden, and they've used Irish Spring for a LONG time (since I was a kid) to keep the critters away from the plants.

Not much else you can do about it for this season, unfortunately. Once it stops raining, let the soil dry out as much as possible without killing the plants, and then only water in the mornings. That way the leaves dry off completely during the day, so they're not damp all night for the fungus to multiply. Keep applying the fungicide where needed, too.

Then in the fall, once everything has been frosted and died back (or once you've pulled your harvest) remove and dispose of absolutely ALL of the parts of the plant. Leaves, stems, blossoms, even as much of the root ball as you can. Burning them is the best way, but if you can't do that then stuff them into a hot compost pile.
Then (if you can) plant them someplace else next season and put something there that lets the soil get more sun and stay drier, something that doesn't shade the soil as much as the broad leaves on squash. Maybe try carrots or something. That'll break the life cycle of the fungus and you should be safe to put the curcubits back the next year. If you don't have space to move the plants, then be careful with your watering; only in the mornings and as little as possible.


Edit- If you don't have a hot compost pile, stuff the debris into black plastic trash bags and leave them in the sun for a week or so. The idea is to get the temps hot enough to kill the spores, which if I remember right is around 125 degrees?

 

Nice, thanks for the advice. We don't really do a good job of removing dead plants, just the woody stuff and then till the rest under in the spring. I'll probably burn the plant remnents since I don't think our compost pile gets that hot. I've never seen it steaming, but it does make some great compost by the time spring rolls around. Rotating the veggies might be hit or miss since we really never plant in the same places each year, but will try it. Pic of garden taken on 6/12:

Cukes are on the right near the rainwater barrels and squash are on the far side of the garden behind the oinions and chard (can't really see them). As usual tomato plants are outstanding, and huge now compared to the photo. Pulled 4 hornworms and fed to the chickens on Friday. They love them!

 

Yeah, the spores overwinter in the plant remnants, so anything that's left in the ground from the year previous will be loaded with them. There's always some that overwinter in the soil, too, but removing as much of the plants as possible in the fall will help to minimize the # of spores that rear their ugly heads the next spring.

 

I guess no one from FL on here gardens.

 

Florida Man is too busy doing random crazy sh*t for the news to garden.

Edit- I stand corrected. Apparently sometimes he does both

https://www.news10.com/video/plants...gardens-in-the-nude_20180920145615/1461943985

 

Lots of old wives tales out there. I’ll just go buy broccoli. They never touch anything else, always the broccoli.

 

we tried broccoli it was a wasted effort. half of them bloomed too early and the others that looked like they were the right shape were bitter and nasty.

 

cherry tomatoes are almost there...hoping for a big July 4th salad with them.

 

Well folks I have some cherry tomorrow coming in and some of my cucumber plants are starting to bloom. I have broccoli starting to show and the other lettuces are finally kicking in.... it is official I killed the Romain on accident and I’m a little worried about my big tomato plant as it has not produced anything but a couple flowers so far

 

hope you get your 7/4 salad with them. i have tasted exactly one tomato from our plants, and it is promising, but only a few gaining color so far up here sonoma county.

 

I'm jealous, haven't had one yet...weather is weird in the bay area this summer.

 

Everything seems to be going well . I should have beans soon. Tomatoes are showing and growing, Peppers are starting to get bigger, cucumbers are to go as well.
Only concern I have is my zucchini have dropped a couple blossoms and a pumpkin as well. Any suggestions?

 

My contribution. My friend who owns a sawmill made my planting box. First time ever doing one at my new place.

 

Cherry tomatoes everywhere!

 

My little pallet garden is going okay. Some cherry tomatoes are coming and peppers are flowering. Snap peas are going crazy and I just trellises them tonight. Idk if the cukes or zucchini will have the space needed even if I train the stalks out of the garden area. We will see. something has been eating some stuff. I sprayed tonight for deer and rabbits and bugs and slugs