Gardening Thread 2021

[Alaskan]

Hey guys, hope you don't mind if I join.

I have a little 4x8 garden bed that currently has 8 Jelly Beans red cherry tomatoes, 2 San Marzano paste Tomatoes, 1 yellow cherry tomato (can't remember variety), and a slicing tomato (can't remember the variety), plus 8 each of Bell Peppers and Thai hot peppers, plus 1 sweet basil plant. I also have a pineapple mint in a pot next to the garden.

My plans for this fall, once the tomatoes and peppers are done are to overwinter the best pepper plants and then till the gardens and plant white clover as a cover crop / living mulch. I don't direct sow much anyway, so as long as my seedlings are more than 3-4" tall, they should be fine being planted in with the clover in the spring.

I will also be expanding the bed into a horseshoe shape with another 4x8 bad next to it with a 2x4' connecting piece. I will be putting peppers in one bed, tomatoes in the other and then doing salad mix in the middle bit. All of it is drip irrigated.

Sounds like a great plan.

Have any pictures?

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

Cauliflower salad is good!

One of them would for sure hit the deep fryer and get dipped in melted cheddar.

 

[Alaskan]

One of them would for sure hit the deep fryer and get dipped in melted cheddar.

Oh good gravy!!!!!!! Yum!

 

[R2elk]

Cauliflower salad is good!

I just eat it raw dipped in ranch dressing.

 

[R2elk]

You getting some gorgeous heads!

I am impressed!

How will you eat it?

Raw dipped in ranch dressing. Occasionally lightly boiled with butter, salt and pepper and sometimes a little melted cheese. It is good pickled too.

 

[Alaskan]

Raw dipped in ranch dressing. Occasionally lightly boiled with butter, salt and pepper and sometimes a little melted cheese. It is good pickled too.

Or pureed in a dip... or in a cream soup...

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

After 2 days of storm we got 2.5 inches of rain. 1" fell yesterday between 5 and 6 pm,rest was last night to this morning. Tornado dropped about 20 miles north of where I work in Delaware. Some property and tree damage thankfully nobody reported as hurt. Blowing so hard rain was coming sideways on that first round.
No Speedo or booty shakin' for at least a week.

 

[Baymule]

No Speedo or booty shakin' for at least a week.

What a relief for the neighborhood! LOL

 

[Alaskan]

Ker-humpf.

I have an aphid explosion on 2 indoor basils. I put them outside, put outside the other pot plants (herbs) that were next to them..

I am now doing a combo of putting my head in the sand and praying. They were close to my huge rubber tree. THAT will be a pain if the rubber tree got infected.

My... whatever it is called houseplant bush that is finally growing like gangbusters... was closer to the typhoid Mary basil than I would like.... I moved it far away from ground zero. . And hopefully it too will be fine.

And.... spouse let our Cockatoo out unsupervised and she "pruned" my pot of thyme and oregano. When I saw the damage I just signed and kept walking. Maybe later tonight I will have the heart to look more closely at it and see if it can recover (not sure if she just pruned severely or also dug in the roots since I saw plant trimmings and some dirt scattered about).

Anyway.. ....

I didn't even stick my head into the greenhouse today,but it looked great yesterday. Getting more green tomatoes.

The peppers have been healthy and growing but WAY slower at setting flowers than the tomatoes.

I have only a single bell pepper growing.

The rest of the peppers are only now finally starting to open flower buds.

 

[Alaskan]

Oh!

I never uprooted and chucked my 2 dead and potentially terribly diseased cucumber plants.

One if them is now feeling better and trying to grow! Shocker