Gardens 2024: Flowers/Vegetables/Bushes/Trees

[Lady tehMa]

My beans are around 5-6 ft now, and getting flowers. But apparently, I was picking them this time last year, according to facebook memories. :p

But my peppers are getting big, and my tomatoes as well. Last night in the yard with pup, waiting for him to choose his spot, I was eating fresh peas from the garden, and my first cherry tomato!

Plants are liking the heat, for the most part. Lettuce etc. is bolting, of course.

[Queen K]

Sounds good there.

We have Sun Gold tomatoes ripening. Lots of growth on the Black Krims. I will harvest out every second Leek soon. Heat did in the onions so I got all of those out. Peas finished ages ago but I started them very early.

Apricots in.

Blueberries almost harvested out.

[SuperMom]

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When I bought my plants this spring, I was surprised to see that tomatillos came in a purple variety but was excited to try them out. Now that there are a couple with skins bursting and almost ready, I am wondering where's the purple?

[Lady tehMa]

Looking good, SuperMom!

[Queen K]

Heat is just pounding everything. Hard to keep it going this year with no cloud relief in sight.

[Babba_not_Gump]

We found our first cucumber today, hidden under a mass of vines and leaves. Lettuce is coming fast and patty pans should be ready in a couple of days. As well, beets are ready, carrots pretty soon and we picked some of our garlic today, the rest we'll pick next week.
We're fortunate that our garden is in the shade by early to mid-afternoon.

[Queen K]

I get shade by 6 ish and can't happen fast enough.

[Queen K]

Cooler weather is welcome. I have three yellow Hibiscus flowers blooming on one of my five dollar yard sale plants and expect blooms on the other one any time now. A welcome relief from watching everything wither and go to seed so early.

[Queen K]

My beans are around 5-6 ft now, and getting flowers. But apparently, I was picking them this time last year, according to facebook memories. :p

But my peppers are getting big, and my tomatoes as well. Last night in the yard with pup, waiting for him to choose his spot, I was eating fresh peas from the garden, and my first cherry tomato!

Plants are liking the heat, for the most part. Lettuce etc. is bolting, of course.

We just had such a late start with all the wet coolness this year. Whatever happened to temperate? My beans are beginning to climb the arch I created. I'd be happy with green leaves on the arch, anything to make it a success.

I hope you're letting your bolted lettuce go to seed. Free lettuce!

[Babba_not_Gump]

Our garlic scapes are out!
We picked a few today and the wife made a rub to go on the steaks tonight, scapes, garlic, olive oil and basil. Put it in a blender and now it's waiting for the BBQ.

You skip over the carrot transplanting like Peter Pan.

Tell me more …did you separate each carrot and plant? Or did you thump down the pot of sprouts without separating? Are they alive? Or are they dead as doornails?

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Ahh yes, those carrots.
We bought a container of them from Ashcroft and transplanted them.
Here's two of them with one we grew from seeds.

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The transplanted ones are all coming up like that.
Any ideas as to why?

[Catsumi]

Lifted from Quora

Usually it is from too rich (heavily fertilized) soil, excessive nitrogen does strange things to carrots. It usually makes them branch instead of producing a single root. If you have to fertilize use low nitrogen fertilizer.

Carrots grown in wet soils or clay tend to be short and stumpy because they do not go deep for water.

Carrots grown in rocky soil will dodge rocks as they grow.

Some nematodes (microscopic worms) can make carrots deform.

Not thinning carrots enough (or letting weeds grow with them) can make them funny. Most people sow carrots too thick and fail to weed them out. Carrots need to have about one thumb space between them or they are overcrowded. Once the carrots are finger size you start using the thinning as food which makes more room for the rest of the carrots to grow big.

You need the soil to be light and loose, like loamy instead of heavy clay. Some of the long types of carrot might need the soil to be loose and worked for more than 12 inches.

My thoughts are to plant from seed. I didn’t have any luck transplanting mine either when experimenting 10 years ago.

In Sk where soil is heavy, i remember my mom mixing in sand to carrot planting area

Another source said “too much water”,so, you’ve many reasons as to why now

[Babba_not_Gump]

All those suggestions would make sense except the mutant carrots are in the same row as the straight carrots. Strange. I'll stick to seeds.

BTW, picked the last of my garlic today. I'm thinking I'll plant more beets in their place.

[Lady tehMa]

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[Queen K]

That's looking really good! Wow.

[Lady tehMa]

That's looking really good! Wow.

Yeah - they really like big pots. My friend has been doing his peppers this way for years - it is my first year doing it. Also, they apparently like a little bit of coffee grounds, every so often.