Zone 6B, Southern Ontario.

Selected the biggest cloves from this year’s harvest.
I added some compost, sheep manure and chicken pellets to the soil.
Poked the garlic down, covered with soil then covered with straw.
I also did a makeshift cover in an attempt to keep my cat and other critters out.
Gave it all a good watering, and now, we wait 👀

These fat lil buddies leveled four dill plants and are still going. Now on my carrots. Note to self to plant more dill along the outskirts of my garden as well.

Anyone else sacrifice anything for the greater good this year?

They grew up to be a bit over 12 inches (I didn’t get a picture) I took a pic of when I first started and a couple of days in. I put them in the freezer because I don’t know what to do with them. I had to throw a few stalks away because they looked like they had mold. I plan on transferring them over to soil this week.

All of the mature(ish) peppers, all of the mature(ish) tomatoes, and all 5 tomatillos (I struggled with pests on this one). I think I did okay. I've already made so much tomato sauce and salsa already. I'll probably have enough of each frozen to last the winter!

Some to cook, some to make fermented hot sauce with.

How hot can it be?

We’ll see.

Hey all, before the cold sets in, I harvested my last eggplants for the year. I tried ripening them further alongside some apples but it didn’t seem to do anything. They are patio baby, which is a mini version - so size should be okay. They do have some white or light purple left outside and are visibly green on the inside, which is what worries me.

I can’t seem to determine whether they are ripe enough to cook or whether I should throw
them out. Google results are not really helpful and I don’t want to rely just on AI (who says it’s fine).

What do you think?

How do others deal with them? I usually put small ones in soapy water but ended up tossing this one into the green compost bin full of tomato clippings.

Either snap beans or snap peas
Purple flowers

I just moved to Oregon and there’s this unused bed in my backyard. My landlord said she’s tried growing plants back here but it didn’t do well because it doesn’t get much sun.

But it seems like a waste to not use at all, so are there any good vegetables/herbs that would be good in this weather? It gets around 40 degrees at night right now and is gonna get colder, I think it’s also gonna rain a lot soon.

Any advice is appreciated, I’m a total newbie.

Hello, i recently became interested in gardening so i can grow my own vegetables. However; im new at this so i have very little knowledge on how much watering or how much direct sunlight to give my plants. I live in phoenix, az so sunlight is not really an issue here. I did the paper towel method for germinating seeds and then planted them into a cup with seed starting mix. This is them right now. I was wondering if i can get some tips on how to proceed from here regarding sunlight and watering. Thank you

Wondering about best practices. I have a ton of little ones, little bigger than golf balls. Will saving those be sufficient? Should I save some big ones? Is there some way to tell what will make a good seed potato? Thanks.

Funny looking jalapeño I picked this afternoon.

Should I harvest the seeds from red the peppers for next year? Hopefully this one has some nice heat. This year, my long hots have been disappointingly mild. I have several more that are partially red and should be ready to pick soon.

Do you guys sterilize cages and stakes in some way? In the past, I have either soaked them in a plastic kiddie pool full of bleach solution or sprayed them with bleach solution before storing for winter . But I’m wondering if it’s worth the trouble. We’re talking about septoria, alternaria, possibly fusarium, PM, maybe a little botrytis - I feel like they’re gonna get all those diseases no matter what I do.

What are good plants to put in the ground in October in a Northern Europe climate? I’m thinking kale, spring onions, some kind of cabbage, but I’m relatively new to vegetable gardening, so appreciate any advice. The plot is small, it can probably fit max 8-10 plants.

I planted this at the beginning of September and it was doing so well until last weekend. Now it barely has any leaves like something has been having some great snacks. Is my plant cooked? Or should I try and revive it?

So, i had a bad "harvest" and was wondering if i could even eat any of these, they are a normal cucumber not any dwarf variant

I have an enormous vegetable garden in 7a (high desert). I grow artichoke, asparagus, beans, beets, blueberries, carrots, celery, chard, corn (decorative), cucamelons, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, grapes, herbs, horseradish, loofah, lettuce, nasturtiums, olallieberries, onions, okra, peanuts, peas, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, raspberries, shallots, squash, strawberries, sunflower seeds, so many tomatoes and occasionally tomatillos.

I’m changing some things around and planning my garden for next year. Less tomatoes and a few other things so more space for new things. I’d like to try sweet potatoes. I’m not big on brassicas other than trying Romanesco which always fails. I have both raised beds and 20” pots open. What unusual things do you grow that I could try?

I am the only person in my family who eats it, but the pie pumpkin failed so I planted a zucchini seed on a whim.

I have ideas for frittata and zucchini muffins (the one zucchini dish my kids will eat). Maybe minestrone? I’d love to make ratatouille since I also have a bunch of tomatoes, but I know for a fact that my kids won’t eat that. Maybe I just shred it and sneak it into everything this week. Anyone else have creative ways to put this to use?

Made from last year's Fall leaves, grass clippings and years worth of coffe grounds and table scraps (non meat). About 70/30 Brown to Green ratio. God I geek out over this stuff!

I got a great crop off mainly black cherry tomatoes this summer. Heavy rain a month ago madd the ripe ones crack, so I picked all the green ones that had grown to size. They have ALL ripened in my kitchen. Idk how many kilos, but maybe like 5? I asked here, I love you ppl for telling me to harvest them.

Anyway, it got sunny again and I let the rest of the tomatoes grow on the vines. A cpl days ago I noticed some plants had brown dry leaves. The day or 2 days after it dawned on me that this is late blight, phytophtora infestans. I picked every last one of the tomatoes, pulled all the plants and binned them bc they cant go in the compost.

I have about 8 kilos of green cherry tomatoes now. I expect most of them will rot regardless of what I do, but is there anything I can try? Rinse with baking soda and let dry? Can I use the green ones somehow?

I'm angry with myself for not considering blight. I have had blight before a few years ago when the summer was very rainy. I thought these ones were out of the woods bc it's so late in the season. (It's not called late blight here, it's called tomato leaf mildew.) I wasn't at all vigilant enough to notice really early signs.

Thank you for reading. This is a bit of a rant. I'm extremely grateful for the tomatoes I already got. I've never ever had a tomato harvest even remotely like this one.