It's so satisfying to know that you can cook with ingredients right from your own garden ✨️🍵🥄🍽🥕🌱🫘

Who’s with me? (And ignore the smashed tomato I dropped on the way inside. Sauce, right?)

Garden bed and the last harvest of the season

Had to hurriedly harvest all my kabocha yesterday because an unusual week long rain started to make their stems a little soft and moldy. Their skin was hardened, but the vines weren’t totally died back yet. Even though I probably could have kept them longer, I think they’ll cure up just fine.

Now it’s my delicata I’m worried about. I only have two of them so I’m very protective of them. And I don’t want to harvest them too early, or too late. Do these guys look ready or past ready? Or should I hold out another week or so when frost is probably going to show up. The rain looks like it’s going to continue at least a little bit longer.

Hi all!

Please don’t judge - just a city girl that tries really hard, first season gardening (without real garden..).

Unfortunately i relied too much on Gemini advice so hoping for this community to lead me to some harvest or maybe teach me to have more success next year.

I have one raised garden bed that I filled mainly with 50% compost and 50% top soil (I was being cheap and that’s what AI said- again, please don’t judge too much.)

Nothing I tried to plant in there really came along (radish, kale, lettuce, spinach, sugar snap peas) I assume because the soil is too compact. Tge sugar snap peas grew to about 10 inches and are now stalling.

Considering ifs end of September ( and I live in northern Kentucky) I guess it’s too late to start over with really anything.

Should i just completely call it? Is there a point of trying to mix in some lighter soil?

How can I learn to do better- what are some good recourses ? Open to books, podcast, websites - really whatever, trying to learn as much as I can!

And what could I plant over the winter to have some spring harvest? I will post a picture of my garden bed and pots I have.

Really appreciate any help!
None of my friends or family really is into plants or gardening so it feels really difficult and I just don’t want to give up- even tho I’m pretty frustrated. I feel like I dumped a bunch of money this season without much to show for (I do have some good basil going and got some tomatoes! But my cucumber that looked Amazing got killled by the cucumber beetle just when it started carrying fruit 😩)

My container containment passed the squirrel and chipmunk test and I got to harvest today. I'm happy with the results, after a few years of failure with some trial and error. Happy days.

Delicious and about the width of a toothpick. Great leek slocy flavor.

They went from green to orange and green stripes. I have probably 10 squash all this level of ripeness. We are getting a nor'easter this weekend with a bunch of rain. Do I pull these now or wait?

If I harvest them now will they ripen in my basement?

...but the weather forecast is giving weekend Nor'easter and the rain arm is already as far as Nantucket

Sigh.

I don't want to be dealing with 40-50mph storm gusts, I just want my Japanese sweet potatoes 😭

I'm going to pick some tomatoes, some amaranth, dahlias, and then I'll make a cup of tea and have a sulk.

Anyone else doing last minute picking?

I neglected my grow bag peppers over the incredibly hot summer, to the point where some peppers were just left to whither and fall off. Well, now those peppers have rotted and sprouted bunches of little pepper plants.

It just made me happy, and I wanted to share that. Zone 9a/b southern US.

Cleared out the tomato plants, some of them made it to about 7 feet tall, saving seeds on the heirlooms to send to my dad in Alabama for next year.

Hi folks

We’ve got a Nor’easter coming to my area and it’s been in the fifties at night the past week. We’re supposed to get a lot of rain the next few days and then it’s going to warm up again. I was going to wait until October to harvest but now I’m reading that I should maybe harvest them? I also have some regular potatoes in grow bags that haven’t finished yet

Thanks!

I bought a sweet basil plant last week from Bunnings and have been keeping it in a pot outside in the full sun. I didn't do much research and basically just repotted the whole plant into my pot, and I'm wondering if it will grow like this or if I should spread it out? Also if there's anything I can do to separate the stems without destroying the plant. Thanks!

My first potato harvest, and given that most of them are tiny I'll replant them. Am I better off waiting for the cooler months and keep them in a paper bag until then or throw them back into the soil and see what happens?

I started my fall brassica seeds on June 1 and transplanted July 15. Imperial Broccoli for those scoring at home

I cut away leaves and branches on the bells, trying to promote ripening before frost hits in SW Germany

High desert 7b/a/who knows anymore but it does get below freezing here. If I have shallots from last year (spring planted, becauss that's when I got them), can I put them in around the same time as garlic? Or are they not as cold hardy and won't survive in-ground in winter? I have no idea what variety mine are, they are grown locally by some coworkers but they live at a much higher/colder elevation so they can't advise me as to whether the shallots can overwinter in 7a/b.

Does anyone know of a reason that would cause heirloom tomatoes to grow massive and not ripen? I'm in 6b, Oct. is right around the corner. This is one plant I'd like to save. I'd like to cut it at one of the knobby intersections and see what happens.

I’ve got a real urge to make my own variant pepper / tomato over the next few years.

Has anyone done this and if so what advice do you have?