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Harvesting Time - What are you growing?

#82
i planted a hotdog tree but it hasnt produced any fruit yet.

but seriously i wanted to do a garden but with my work schedule i dont have nearly enough time.

hopefully next year; corn, green beans, bell pepper, onion, tomato, maybe some fruits. just the basics really
 
#84
Just harvested my first 3 tomatoes this morning. Ate one for lunch with some onion from my parents garden. Got a good helping of sugar snap peas (the climbing kind). Some peppers, one of each; bell, jalapeno, banana...yield hasn't been so great with those. Zucchini, one big one. Cucumber, so far 4 good size ones. And finally Basil and Cilantro both doing well. I'm pretty happy with it all since this is my very first garden!
 
#85
Been eating the lettuce and spinach and whatnot. Some squashes. LOVE the kale and chard. But it's all about the tomatoes. They're about to start ripening faster than I can eat them. I love that time of year.
 
#86
This summer, I took the plunge and converted my entire front yard into a garden by sheet mulching the grass with 8 yards of mulch and then added 6 yards of topsoil and compost to build the beds. We grew two different types of carrots, a lot of beets, three different kinds of blueberries, planted a fig tree (we had 6 figs), grew several types of oregano and basil and I experimented with potatoes this year. Everything did exceptionally, well considering the heat. Except the potatoes... the ones we harvested have been perfect, but there was MUCH less of a yield than I expected I suspect that the potatoes might have been stunted by the 12 foot sunflower TREE that mysteriously sprouted out of the center of the potato patch!
 

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#91
I normally Link Removed, but I have some "technical" questions regarding heirloom tomatoes and why I seem to have no luck in getting them to set fruit year after year.

I'm becoming convinced that this is due to cool nights preventing them from setting. If the blossoms are actually touching the ground they will set, presumably because of the residual heat radiated during the night. Blossoms more than an inch off the ground will not set, period, ever.

Even hybrids do much better if they are low, "bush" varieties

Anyone else have a similar experience?
 
#92
Nice group of peppers JR, just beautiful!!

This is our first year trying to grow some heirlooms, so I can´t say anything towards that. We do have a lot of tomato plants, and most of ém have cages. Easier to rototill the rows for weeds that way. I have seen a few greenies that I thinkare heirlooms, but I won´t be sure for a few days-weeks yet. I will ask our master gardener about that. Any sign of tomato worms?
 
#98
Our yard has gravel, so I have a small raised garden. I used an organic shrimp and seaweed compost.

Vegetables: Cherry tomatoes, jet star tomatoes, beef steak tomatoes, cubanelle peppers, orange bell peppers

Herb: Basil

I had also planted an eggplant. It flowers, but has produced nothing. I had the same problem with my zucchini, which died.
 
#99
This has been a pretty inspiring thread. I have been thinking about getting a vegetable garden for a while, and I feel like this thread has been pushing me closer to growing one.

I've got some garlic growing in a little pot. They seem pretty happy so far, especially due to recent rains.
 

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