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

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!

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!

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?

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 ?

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...

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

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

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?

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

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 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!

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.

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.

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….?

They are a lot bigger than I thought.

Hi all,

my nonna has dementia and ended up in a nursing home, and i was given some of her seeds to grow. i was told this was basil, but im starting to question that. the jars were labeled with things like parsley, basil and an italian lettuce mix. not sure what else could be outside of those. is it basil; or maybe some kind of lettuce? smells like basil, unless the wrong seeds were planted.. i’ve also attached a photo of the seeds.

thank you!

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.

My squash seedling plant was doing great then we got a lot of rain and the leaves yellowed. I figured it was due to overwatering from the rain. Now, all of the leaves have fallen off and the plant just doesn’t look good. Is this normal maturation?

I took an overgrown, yellow cucumber, scooped out the cucumber seeds, placed them in a jar of water and let them ferment for a couple of days. But, when I dried them they wound up looking like this. What did I do wrong?

Hi everyone!

I’m in Portugal, in what I believe is USDA Zone 10A or 10B, although I’m not entirely sure. We get occasional light frosts, usually sometime between late November and January, but our winters are relatively short. We have long springs and autumns, summers that can get quite warm, and a spring season with plenty of rain and temperatures often around 18°C (64°F).

I’ve traditionally planted garlic in early to mid-December, following a Portuguese gardening tradition. There’s even a traditional Portuguese saying about planting garlic around this time. The garlic usually starts emerging around Christmas or New Year’s.

The problem is that I’ve had increasingly disappointing garlic harvests over the past 3–4 years, despite having one particularly successful crop in 2022.

My garlic always starts growing beautifully. I plant it at a reasonably consistent spacing, which doesn’t seem to be the issue. However, as the season progresses, it develops severe rust. The leaves turn red/orange, dry out, and the plants seem to die back before the bulbs have had enough time to develop properly.

In some cases, the plants are already almost completely dried out when the scapes finally emerge, sometimes only becoming noticeable when I’m harvesting or even after I’ve harvested them. Consequently, my harvests have become smaller and smaller, even though I do buy new seed garlic every year.

I’m trying to figure out what to change, and I’d really appreciate advice from people who grow garlic in similar climates.

Here are the options I’m considering:

Plant earlier, in November: Would this give the plants more time to establish and develop before spring, potentially allowing the bulbs to mature earlier? Or would they still suffer from rust during the same rainy spring?

Plant later: Could planting later allow the plants to get through the wettest part of spring while they’re still young, with bulb development and harvesting happening later, when conditions are drier?

Try elephant garlic instead: Would it perform better under these conditions? Does elephant garlic also produce edible scapes, like regular garlic?
I’m particularly interested in whether changing planting dates could make a meaningful difference, or whether I should be looking at different varieties or other ways of managing rust. Or maybe there’s a fertilising rule I am missing. I add compost when sowing the garden and then a bit more I’m spring.
Has anyone grown garlic successfully in a mild, relatively wet Mediterranean climate? What would you recommend?
Thanks!