Gardening pics, hacks, successes, and or failures

[Rain City]

Never seen one of these buggers before. Over 2” long. Giant water bug and also called a toe biter lol. We poked it and it buried itself in the ground.

This isn’t really gardening related as these things are typically in marshes but it was creepy to see it run across the driveway and dive into the ground

Groooossssss

 

[wildmanyeah]

Took some pictures this morning things finally starting to grow well

 

[JWS]

Thinned the carrots last night, ate the seasons best carrots tonight. Pulled all the garlic last night, too

 

[Rain City]

Thinned the carrots last night, ate the seasons best carrots tonight. Pulled all the garlic last night, too

Do you harvest based on that 5 brown leaves rule?

 

[JWS]

Do you harvest based on that 5 brown leaves rule?

Sort of? 3 dead leaves minimum for me. Harvest is also based on my schedule and what I want to put in that area next.

 

[scott craven]

3 year old peach tree is loaded ,but very small fruit.
Wondering if it needs fertilizer?

 

[IronNoggin]

3 year old peach tree is loaded ,but very small fruit.
Wondering if it needs fertilizer?

Be VERY careful of applying fertilizer at that stage!
That and / or over-watering causes pit rot.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Picked my garlic today biggest harvest i have had since started doing this 3 years ago. Could have waited till a few more of the leaves turned brown and died back but harvested at this stage last year and lasted over 10 months. Wanted to make room to plant green beans.

 

[scott craven]

or over-watering causes pit rot.

That doesn't sound good

 

[IronNoggin]

That doesn't sound good

Lost pretty much our whole crop due to that a couple years back.
Never again!

 

[ChilliSpoons]

I don’t have a ton of space when I yank out my garlic but what can I plant in its place at this time of the year? The wife and I aren’t fans of green beans.

 

[tubber]

Ideally you'd have some starter plants ready to pop in. But from seed lettuce, carrots, rutabagas, beets.
Start some radicchio, spinach, bulb fennel, purple sprouting broccoli, and or savoy cabbage to go in soon.
Leave room to put new garlic in because the new stuff might still be going when it's time to plant it again.

 

[ryanonthevedder]

I don’t have a ton of space when I yank out my garlic but what can I plant in its place at this time of the year? The wife and I aren’t fans of green beans.

You could get a crop of taters off.

Mine are just coming off now. Front yard is south facing so thats where the magic happens.

 

[getbent]

3 year old peach tree is loaded ,but very small fruit.
Wondering if it needs fertilizer?

They do like their feed, specifically at flower set and after they are pollinated.

 

[ryanonthevedder]

They do like their feed, specifically at flower set and after they are pollinated.

I've been burying salmon carcasses next to my fruit trees for the last 3 years except 1 as a control. The unfertilized tree is about 1/3 the size of the others and has yet to bear fruit (figs). I just dig a 2' hole at the drip edge of the tree and drop in a bunch of heads, guts and spines and cover it back up. Typically this happens in Sept/Oct and I highly recommend.

 

[Rain City]

I've been burying salmon carcasses next to my fruit trees for the last 3 years except 1 as a control. The unfertilized tree is about 1/3 the size of the others and has yet to bear fruit (figs). I just dig a 2' hole at the drip edge of the tree and drop in a bunch of heads, guts and spines and cover it back up. Typically this happens in Sept/Oct and I highly recommend.

My chinese neighbours make a stew and just pour that sh*t on everything. Smells awesome.

 

[ryanonthevedder]

No stew, no smell, no animals digging at it yet. Just vigorous growth

Here's the proof. They're all the same age and get the same care.

 

[Doug]

I saw that some on the form started harvesting garlic and like a sheep I followed. It turned out well.
I grew 3 types of garlic, Siberian, Russian Red, and Persian.
All turned out great and now are trimmed brushed and going into the drying shed,

 

[Alex_c]

Left my peppers out in the cold in June and they’re all stunted and new growth is deformed. Definite fail there. Went and bought some starts from the nursery as a last ditch effort to save the season. Lucky for me I still have 2 gallons of hot sauce left from last year, so at least I won’t be buying store bought for a while.

Tomatoes are doing really well and we just pulled our garlic. In the garlic bed we planted basil, mustard and collard greens.

 

[Sea Chaser]

I effed up my peppers too I believe . They are starting to come around again but think I stunned them as well . Tomatoes and cucumbers and the wife’s “special” “tomatoes” doing well.
Harvested the garlic last weekend