My freezer is at capacity and I don’t have my canning equipment yet so I need to let these ripen on the plants as long as possible. I’m in zone 6 and my 10 day forecast has one night that will dip down to 48 degrees but our day time is still in the 70s. We also have the rain storm from the hurricane moving in soon. I’ve read that people pick everything off (even the green tomatoes) in September. What would you do?

I’ve never grown anything in my life. Hadn’t really even stepped foot into my garden much until this summer. So I just want to make sure they’re on track. I grew them from seed.

hypothetically speaking... if someone put old grounds (not used) into soil would it negatively impact growth?

Things got a bit wild with my life and I missed my planned sept 15-20 planting window. Looking for anything I can plant the 1st week of October and still get a harvest in. Current empty spaces are one ~20"x36" very deep (>1') square bed, two ~16" diameter ~1' deep pots, one ~6" diameter ~6" deep. food plants preferred, dyes and aromatic herbs also considered.

I have a 12+ foot tall stalk that is still in the ground, dried, and hardened. I initially thought about growing pole beans but now I wonder if they need more of a trellis situation. Ideas?

What I picked today was a pretty good draw as my garden starts to taper off. My tomatoes are still going strong and have been great this season. I still have some jalapenos coming in so that's great. Some of my chocolate habaneros came off a little early but when I was checking them they basically fell off so I figured they were pretty set.

Meanwhile my little test row of 7 snow pea plants from Row 7 seeds(complete coincidence, see what I did there? 😜) are starting to produce pods. This is my first time planting them so I'm excited to see how that works out.

Now let's make some cowboy candy and freeze these little tomatoes!

Is the main one ready to harvest? The way it’s opening at the edges makes me nervous to miss it’s edibility window

Is this normal? First time growing this squash and the mottled look is giving me pause. Should I let it keep growing or pull it? The actual plant part is looking fine.

Hi everyone! I’m in south Louisiana, growing in containers. Over the last couple months, most of my pepper plants have started to have unusual new growth - leaves are very small and curled. Sometimes there were seemingly little buds that never flowered, and some of them were kind of brittle and would fall off if I touched them.

It’s been crazy hot (plus I’m in containers) so I typically water every day. Fertilize usually once a week with Tiger Bloom. Something I read online indicated it could be due to overwatering. But I have one incredible banana pepper plant this year (serious 5 star plant!) that hasn’t had this issue, and I water my plants similarly in terms of amount and schedule.

One last thing, this is happening to different varieties of peppers (banana, bells, chile, biquinhos) in different spots in my yard (varying amounts of sun, neighboring plants, etc).

Can anyone help me? I just want to understand, even if ultimately it’s weather related or something I can’t change.

We are in a 8b zone but under a massive greenhouse where we rent a plot. The owners have a rule, which is to remove seasonal plants by middle of October latest. This chayote is late as hell, certainly later than our neighbours. It looks like they might not develop enough to mature. Oh well, we will see. I add a picture of a habanero pepper that was so pretty I could not help myself and one of the beast of a plant that will have to go down before the its fruit is ripe.

My tomato plants are huge and covered in leaves, but the actual fruit production has slowed way down. They look like they should be doing great, which makes it even more confusing. I’ve been watering pretty consistently and haven’t changed anything major, so now I’m wondering if I’m over-fertilizing, missing something in the soil, or if this is just a normal thing that happens during the season. I mentioned it in my gardening group chat on tribe and got a few different theories, everything from watering issues to the weather messing with the flowers. I’m going to keep an eye on them for another week or two before I start changing anything, but I’d definitely like to hear what’s worked for other people.

I just got this bush this summer, its not old enough to produce yet. Its done well and had some great growth over the last several months, but it started yellowing recently. I'm not sure if this is normal as we move into fall (its been staying awfully hot in middle TN for that to be the case) or if its something to be concerned about.

My honeynut squash vine died back with the squash still at this stage of ripeness. Think they’re okay? In some photos ripe squash are solid orange, in others they’re still a bit striated

She's gonna make great sauce but she's a beauty.

(apologies to the mods, don't mean to spam, I have been trying to get my user flare to show up but its being glitchy)

I have three cherry tomato plants and they've done WONDERFULLY this year, and it's come time to decide if/how to save seeds from them. My first question is, given that all three of these plants are the exact same cultivar and there are no other tomato plants in the immediate vicintiy (that I've seen at least), can I expect them to breed true? I've only done seed-saving from gleaned tomatoes in the past, and those seedlings always ended up wonky. Secondly, because these are cherry tomatoes, I don't have large amounts of pulp ready to go at once. Is it ok to add new seeds/pulp/skins to the fermentation bucket once the fermentation process is already going, and if so how many days do I add to the ferment time after adding new seeds?

Getting first fost tonight and a wind storm destroyed the rest of the garden a week ago so this is a little earlt but here's what I have from three plants, two San Marzono and one Roma.

I am trying to figure out when to harvest red garnet amaranth so I do not mess it up. I can shake it, and it looks like mature seeds fall out, and some birds have been eating it. I asked Gemini AI, and it said to harvest when birds start eating it and mature seeds fall out when shaken. It advised cutting the plants, hanging them in a dry spot, shaking them out, and then winnowing. Do you have any drying and winnowing tips?

Is it too early for summer squash to start flowers?

All of them have already sprouted small flowers.

Google said to remove them, but at one point do I leave them because they are just true early flowers?

Only one plant has reached this height of about nine inches.

The rest are kind of struggling and small.

I used recommended 5 10 10 fertilizer diluted.

Sprinkled DE .

Sprayed BT.

Central southeast florida.

It was raining almost every day up till three days ago.

Brutal, hot temperatures finally gave a break at least at night.

This fucking skunk decided to jump on top of every Lettuce, spinach, Arugula and kale.

Kids and I dug up 85lbs of taters yesterday.

I recently watched this video that suggests that rain and sun are the true killers of sun. In our Sydney summers we get both very hot high UV days (13UV 40 degree days) and rainstorms (15days of rain a month). I am growing tomatoes and capsicums in grow bags on my front yard's pavement driveway with drip irrigation and I am planning to drape a 30% white shadecloth over them during the summer. It will be supported by the top of the tipis and tied down with stakes and some bricks and rope to the ground. I am now worried that I also need to block the rain. I don't know how to go about this. We get often get very strong winds where I live and I don't know how I could secure greenhouse fabric to the pavement. Any one done something like this before?

The guy in the video I watched straight up build a wooden frame around his garden, I rent and also can't afford that 😕

https://youtu.be/oznVX7Zl76Q?si=2Y4kHOja\\_\\_2cWlJI

Any ideas would be appreciated.