2022 Gardening Thread

[2ManyGuns]

Plant "root" crops, for storage, carrots, potatoes, parsnip, turnips, and beets, loads of nutrients! While I really do not like beets, I will eat them, and if shortages do occur, food will become a valuable trade item. Get your canning supplies, salt, lids and rings, and jars. If you go to Bucc-ee's or HEB or anywhere they have the glass jars with canned pickles, okra, quail eggs, or whatever, that is shaped like a Mason jar, keep the jar, it is re-usable to can in, standard ball-type lids usually fit these jars. Waste not, want not !! I give my cousin canned foods as gifts, she returns my original Mason jars and gives me jars from HEB, that she bought. Win, for both of us!

 

[robertc1024]

Lettuce and Spinach didn't survive long before it got too bitter to eat. Damn tomato plants are going wild - have at least three volunteers from last year, which haven't started making any fruit yet, but I'm hopeful. Basil and Oregano are doing their herb thing - growing like weeds. My only issue is that I've got a pretty small plot and I planted too many zucchinis, those things are taking over and only one is big enough to eat. My saving grace is the okra - I swear, that stuff could make it through a nuclear holocaust - doesn't hurt that it is one of my favorites to eat. Got a lot of that growing.

 

[Axxe55]

I may have made a huge mistake. Watching a YT video, it was suggested using vinegar as a natural insect repellant for plants, and so I tried it out, Burnt the crap out of my tomato and pepper plants, and I have probably lost a few of my pepper plants. When I saw the damage the next day, I immediately rinsed them off with water and watered them with some Miracle Gro.

 

[glenbo]

Between stink bugs, mockingbirds, and blossom end rot, it looks like we're not getting many tomatoes this year. Japanese eggplant are starting to put out blossoms and okra is going well now that it's getting a little hotter. Another couple of weeks when it gets up to the 90s every day and they'll really do great. Long bean plants are now well over 10 feet long, just don't have any beans on them yet. Herbs are the best we've ever had.

 

[Younggun]

I may have made a huge mistake. Watching a YT video, it was suggested using vinegar as a natural insect repellant for plants, and so I tried it out, Burnt the crap out of my tomato and pepper plants, and I have probably lost a few of my pepper plants. When I saw the damage the next day, I immediately rinsed them off with water and watered them with some Miracle Gro.

Neem oil works, but it’s important you don’t spray until late evening or the wet oil will have the same bad effects.


Downside is that it doesn’t kill the insects and will wash away over time with watering.

 

[Younggun]

Yesterdays squash haul.

 

[baboon]

Mine is at least a month behind. Drank coffee while pulling weeds this morning.

Indoor hydroponic Herb garden is doing really well. The smell of the basil makes me think of pizza.

 

[Axxe55]

Neem oil works, but it’s important you don’t spray until late evening or the wet oil will have the same bad effects.


Downside is that it doesn’t kill the insects and will wash away over time with watering.

I'm just going to buy some new pepper plants. I checked yesterday and so far have lost my ghost peppers, ancho peppers and my habenaro pepper plants.

 

[robertc1024]

Getting stuff out of ours.

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[BuzzinSATX]

I may have made a huge mistake. Watching a YT video, it was suggested using vinegar as a natural insect repellant for plants, and so I tried it out, Burnt the crap out of my tomato and pepper plants, and I have probably lost a few of my pepper plants. When I saw the damage the next day, I immediately rinsed them off with water and watered them with some Miracle Gro.

I use a mix of vinegar, orange oil, and dish soap as a natural herbicide. It also kills fire ants.

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[BuzzinSATX]

For sick plants, consider Garrett Juice, which you can buy or make yourself:

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[candcallen]

My daughter's raised garden experiment is done for the year. Our new puppy Rogue figured out how to defeat the security barrier.

All the plants shredded.
Most of the soil is everywhere but in the beds.

Lol

 

[Axxe55]

My daughter's raised garden experiment is done for the year. Our new puppy Rogue figured out how to defeat the security barrier.

All the plants shredded.
Most of the soil is everywhere but in the beds.

Lol

So your new puppy is a vegan?

 

[candcallen]

So your new puppy is a vegan?

Shes the debil. Holy terror. Smart and lots of teeth.

 

[Axxe55]

Shes the debil. Holy terror. Smart and lots of teeth.

Diego thinks he's suppose to be a lap dog!

 

[candcallen]

Diego thinks he's suppose to be a lap dog!

Just make him lay head up so your not smelling his farts.

 

[Axxe55]

Picked some yellow tomatoes this morning.

 

[Axxe55]

Picked up two more ghost pepper plants Saturday and got them planted.

 

[candcallen]

Picked up two more ghost pepper plants Saturday and got them planted.

Ohhhh Rogue.

 

[wakosama]

OK... I live in Spring. A while back I started a garden. Just some herbs in planter boxes I built. Really nice plants with good growth. First time I went out and harvested some for the kitchen they tasted like jet fuel and insecticide. Forgot I was right beneath the IAH flyway and that the HOA sprays for bugs every nite.
So much for suburban gardening around here.