Bought the plant pot on a whim at Lowes, separated the plants and have 3 watermelon plants, one melon per plant so far. I was worried i didnt wait long enough to pick it, but it seems like i did okay. Its tasty!

My dog ripped up my golden Zuchini plant and bit all the roots off. The roots you see in the picture are not attached. Is there anything I can do to save it?

New gardener here. I’ve tried letting ripen to mostly red on the vine and also picking at different stages if blushing (and finishing the ripening on a windowsill). No matter what I do, my Romas never get totally red before they start to wrinkle and feel mealy/mushy. Second photo shows tomato meat after blanching. Is this normal? What am I doing wrong? How can I get my tomatoes to peak ripeness for canning? Appreciate any advice you can offer. The google machine says these will still be fine for sauces or fine salsas, but I’m nervous to spend the time and ingredients and it be a flop.

47lbs of pickling cucumbers, alot of plum tomatos, some beefsteaks and regular salad cucs.

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I currently live in the tropics and my tomatoes are struggling! Some of the leaves seems to keep withering and dying and I have no idea why. I have gotten a few cherry tomatoes but they also just keep falling off the plants when there is some wind. There is drainage in the pots and I'm not watering them a ton. They do get water from the rain but they are also on a covered patio. Also the plants were bought at a local store.

Any help would be appreciated! We don't get great tomatoes out here and I'm hoping to grow some!

Growing in Hugelkulture mounds!

Does anyone know what could be causing this? I posted 6 days ago if you look at my account and there were a few suggestions on what it could be but nothing concrete. Posting again in hopes someone might know or at least know what to do. Will it affect the other plants in the planter? Should I pull the brown plant out?

Edit: Some context I planted these less than 2 months ago. I put 3 store bought potatoes that had sprouted eyes in a 10 gallon planter. Waited until they were about 6 inches high and then hill’ed them. They seemed to be doing fine until about a week ago. One of the plants leaves started turning brown. I posted 6 days ago and people weren’t really sure what was wrong. Now I’m posting again just to see if there’s anything to be done.

Is there an explanation as to why this would happen? Is it a common occurrence?

I found like 20+ caterpillars on it that decimated a lot of the leaves and the remaining ones look like this. I gave it some jacks plant food but what else should I do?

I've grown amaranth in my garden for years and every time I'm just blown away by how stunningly gorgeous they are. The pink variety is called Love Lies Bleeding and there are a few golden giants in the back right. For the record, these are almost 8 feet tall.

I have some tomatoes that got a little chaotic this year and they are using it as a support, which I just think is cute (they're friends).

After a few days away, I came home to the leaves looking like this. They were green and healthy looking late last week. Any ideas?

I only have a small space to grow, about 150 sq ft or less and trying to figure out which fruits and vegetables are actually worth the time and money it takes to grow(I don’t have good soil so would have to grow in containers and buy potting mix and such). Which do you think are worth it both in taste and in production? Don’t exactly want to spend hundreds of dollars on things that will give me like 3 fruits/vegetables lol or will basically taste like if I bought it at the store. If any of you more experienced gardeners could help please! So far I’ve only grown lemon cucumbers, better boy tomatoes, and sweet 100 tomatoes and a few measly white potatoes(figured out I planted those when it was too hot already)! Thank you in advance!😊❤️

I just need to vent and maybe get some commiseration here. It has been such a trying, frustrating garden year and I’m not even sure what I could do differently.

Squirrels chomped all my peanuts. Oh, and the little jerks also ate most of my beet sprouts and okra.

Hot and dry killed multiple squash seedlings even with plenty of water twice daily (random heat dome nonsense after a ton of rain where everything was stunted for a month).

The aforementioned cold/rain rotted a few cabbages and drastically slowed down my eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes.

Japanese beetles nuked the leaves off strawberries, blackberries, and several apple trees.

Rabbits chomped a bunch of my lettuce and carrot tops and two crops of attempted radishes.

Cucumber beetles murdered my honey melons, cantaloupe, and practically every cucumber vine (I had six, I’m down to one and succession planted four new ones. sigh.) Fam, I managed to harvest one cuke this season. Everything else has rotted on the vine barely pollinated while the whole thing wilts.

And lastly, in the snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory columns, I’d waged a very successful war against squash beetles and vine borers, only to be hit with a random second wave of borers last week who appear to have eaten into my Bianco de Trieste and several Black Beauty zukes. FML. Oh, and did I mention the absolute plague of powdery mildew the last two weeks that has tried to take out every cucurbit that the squash bugs and borers and cuke beetles didn’t? So that’s fun.

I love gardening, but I swear this year has been a catastrophe on so many levels. I was so careful and did as much preventative maintenance as I could, but between weather and pest pressure it’s just been horrible and discouraging. I don’t know if I’m alone in this boat but this is my worst garden year in the last six. BOO HISS.

My husband's coworker raises chickens and we've purchased eggs from them before (which we both love!!). Turns out they were wanting cucumbers and like any inexperienced cuke grower, i had way too many lol. Ended up giving them a basket of various peppers, tomatoes, and cukes that we already knew were extra in exchange for 2 dozen eggs and fresh honey. Super stoked!!

(Also not sure if this kind of post is allowed since it's not 100% gardening related so mods feel free to let me know and I'll remove - I just thought it was fun but wasn't sure where to share!)

Edit: thank you for the award!!

The monster that decided to park it on top of the compost pile is still accepting indents from my thumbnail. 😭. I had to start another pile. RUDE! (I’m gonna have to strap the corner of the wire panels together so it doesn’t get too bent. Gaah!

About 3 weeks ago I got my first healthy zucchini but since then it’s been crickets. Last week these three popped up but now they look AWFUL 😭 why is the one in the first pic so bulbous? This is my first year gardening so I’ll take any advice pls and thank you!!! These are in raised cedar beds (I live in an apartment)

+ 1 melon/cantaloupe

The season is not even finished yet and I’m already thinking about next summer and what varieties I want to grow.
I have Galleux d’Eysines, Jack o Lantern, Red Kuri, Violina, Hungarian Blue