Had a great year growing stuff , sucks its over so quick zone 5b. Already planning for next year and putting garlic in the ground in a few days...

Finally got around to pulling my carrots - some beautiful roots I am pretty proud of! Once the greens were trimmed they all weighed in at 28 lbs. nothing like home grown carrots!

Made a delicious lamb rogan josh curry to serve with the coli steamed for dinner. Soo good! Happy growing everyone

I will slowly snack on them but it may take a few weeks. How do I store them to last a little bit without freezing?

Hi all, so i started gardening in order to learn patience plus nothing better to do. It began with inset rows and nothing but radishes, and not to brag but they came out looking and tasting good even after a bad drought to contend with. But im doing my adhd thing now and its clearly evolved into alot doing broccoli,lettuce,kale,spinach,asparagus,garlic and onions etc and im getting fixated lol but its going well. My only thought now is am I doing too much too fast and does anyone have any suggestions on a better row setup to control weeds? My final form is probably the raised rows I then mulched with in house leaf and grass and twig mulch and then covered in fabric. Wild allium is the main issue right now we shall see how the new setup does. Anyway I want to do more berries any thoughts on what can grow good in 6b outside strawberries?

With frost warnings and temps forecast below freezing this coming weekend, I figured it was time to start clearing out the gardens. Last 5 of my 8 celery plants.

So, I planted sunchokes. Maybe two years ago. And then just kind of left them alone. Today, I was pulling out the stalks, and wondered where the “chokes” were. Eventually I dug down far enough to see they are both tiny and EVERYWHERE, as are the roots, including up against my home’s foundation. Is this a humbling lesson in listening when people say something spreads quickly, or is this a foundation wrecking mistake?

My Greek gingante beans have been growing all summer, but they set kinda late and we have a freeze coming tonight. I've covered as much as I could with the sheets that I have but some are still dangling out in the open -- some are bulging with fat beans but others are a little thinner.. Should I pick them tonight? last year when we got our first freeze, it damaged the pods and we had very little harvest. Help!

I've had jumping worms in my yard and raised beds for a few years now, and the damage to the soil in my beds seems to get worse every year. My larger transplants do fine, but small seedlings or direct sown crops really struggle...especially as the season progresses. I try handpicking as many as I can find out of the soil, but I wonder if I'm introducing even more new worms via eggs in my compost that survive over winter.

Solarization seems to be the only viable way to kill off their eggs, but then you kill off most of everything else that is beneficial in your compost. I'm almost wondering if I should stop using traditional compost in my raised beds altogether.

Has anyone been dealing with this? If I stop using backyard compost, is there an affordable organic alternative that wouldn't be infected by these eggs?

How do you decide what location for garden depends? Does it depend on location?

I'd heard morning light is better than afternoon, but last place I lived had really warm afternoon light. Plants were more likely to get burnt out quick but the ones that did well did really well.

Now I have morning light and everything (except basil) is just going pretty slow. It's all surviving (probably because of drip irrigation though) but things like hardy greens aren't getting as big.

Thanks!

Did I leave them in the ground to long? Amazing flavor!

I have a mound (60 cm at the highest, diameter of 1.5 meters) with horseradish planted in the middle and I'm starting to realize a mound may not be the best way to contain them... (Oops).

Can I simply plop down a border/edge or am I screwed?

I was curious how tomatoes would do with no pruning at all and this is the result. It is definitely not the most effective method and will leave me with alot of clean up at the end of the season but I did get lots of tomatoes

Hi guys. I'm a container vegetable gardener in zone 7b. We are very close to approaching the first frost, any time soon. I grow my vegetables in the 27 gallon Costco containers with drilled holes at the bottom for drainage and it has worked well. As the season comes to an end, I am thinking about treating my soil with hydrogen peroxide mix and neem cake powder as I had problems with spider mites this season. My main question is, do you guys keep your containers covered and outside or bring them inside? I don't want to drag so many containers in my home. And then constantly worry about pests even though I'm treating it. My main goal is to be able to reuse this same dirt next year by adding more organic compost and fertilizer to replenish the nutrients. Thanks in advance!

It's soon to be winter and I have 3 potted plants: tomato, parsley, basil. I've already harvested the tomato and basil and gotten rid of the plants. I'm going to try to grow the parsley indoors since I get good sunlight. The other two pots are going to be used for some other plants.

However, all three of my pots have a ton of fungus gnats. It's going to be close to freezing temps soon so i'm hoping the adults will die if I leave the pots outside for a week (and hopefully my parsley doesn't die). I bought some mosquito bits to help kill the larvae too.

I'm trying to avoid bringing any fungus gnats inside my house once I move all 3 pots inside.

Is this a good plan? Or should I just get rid of all the potting soil on the two pots and then hope my parsley doesn't have any fungus gnats ?

I haven’t grown tomatoes since I was little, what is this? Safe to eat?

Hi all,

just discovered topping brussels is a thing. just wondering if now is the time, google has been unhelpful. in the past week the top has gone from cabbage esque (round) appearanceF to elongated.

Today’s harvest! I love those bright colors

Any suggestions for setting up a small plot in our backyard in SF? Soil looks ok and just moved here so new to this. Thanks.

hi everybody, I am zone 9b. we finally just dropped from 100 degrees and now it’s high 70s-80s. I seeded both my planters Monday afternoon.
my problem is my soil isn’t soaking in the water? I took a photo. I’m trying to figure out if I should take the L, strip the top layer, water everything? & then reseed….?