Gardening pics, hacks, successes, and or failures

[Rain City]

So annoying to grow your own **** sometimes all my pepper seedlings are in the process of dying

I had three trays in a row die in the mech room with lights. I gave up on the seeding soil and I'm now trying a blend and just going by the window.

 

[wildmanyeah]

everything has turned out so far this year really good all the cold crops i started inside , the onions, cabbage, cauliflower, ect

but these peppers are now dying, i think from that wilting






mean while the small batch of peppers i stated earlier as an experiment doing everything the same are doing good.

 

[wildmanyeah]

I started this all in doors swell and it’s doing good

 

[getbent]

everything has turned out so far this year really good all the cold crops i started inside , the onions, cabbage, cauliflower, ect

but these peppers are now dying, i think from that wilting



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mean while the small batch of peppers i stated earlier as an experiment doing everything the same are doing good.

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That looks almost like damping off.
Are you using bottom heat?

 

[wildmanyeah]

Yeah I did to germinate but then I took them off it after they popped up

 

[wildmanyeah]

If I could buy some of these verities I would just buy them nursery does not have a good selection

 

[wildmanyeah]

That looks almost like damping off.
Are you using bottom heat?

I think you are right it is damping off when i potted them up i used a old bag of soil, same thing i did with the small test batch of peppers that did good, so i thought i was good to go guess not

 

[getbent]

I think you are right it is damping off when i potted them up i used a old bag of soil, same thing i did with the small test batch of peppers that did good, so i thought i was good to go guess not

Yeah fusarium and pythium love old soil

 

[tubber]

We've been packing stuff in and out of the house to get some real sun. Watching long term forecast for nighttime lows

 

[Copper Moon]

Garlic and salad greens are doing well, even had some asparagus.
Gooseberries, peppers and tomatoes are looking good but waiting for warmer weather. Soon I hope.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Garlic and salad greens are doing well, even had some asparagus.
Gooseberries, peppers and tomatoes are looking good but waiting for warmer weather. Soon I hope.

Incredible what temp do you keep that room

 

[Copper Moon]

Incredible what temp do you keep that room

It's not particularly warm, usually 17-20. It's a small mud room heated by a couple of freezers and those lights. The heating pad really helped germination and added a bit of heat.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Yeah mine 16-19 but I was thinking it was getting a bit cold for them

 

[Salmonslayer1992]

Garlic and salad greens are doing well, even had some asparagus.
Gooseberries, peppers and tomatoes are looking good but waiting for warmer weather. Soon I hope.

That’s a proper clone rack!

 

[tubber]

Go time for a lot stuff today. Sore hamstrings.
40 tomatoes, some peppers and eggplants in the PrAuto "greenhouse" Corn and bush beans from starts, sweet potato slips into a big pot and some grow bags.
More peppers, eggplants, melons, leeks, celery, and squashes can wait till Saturday or later.
Fly fishing tomorrow.
Brassicas, lettuce, radishes, fava beans, peas, radicchio, carrots, beets, parsnips, spinach, garlic, arugula, rhubarb, potatoes, and herbs planted earlier or last year are starting to take flight.
Wish I could grow brisket and spot prawns.

 

[wildmanyeah]

I fried two tomato seedlings today, had them in a mini green house got way to hot

 

[Rain City]

We've had some things burn a little too

 

[tubber]

Windows both rolled up it was 40* C in there today. We got a solar thermometer that gives the high and low for the day, and current temp, which helps.

 

[Sea Chaser]

Attention garlic experts
First time grower long time listener
When do we typically harvest garlic ? I read you want to see the scapes do a circle then it’s time or if some of the lower leaves start to die . When do you start to see the scapes grow ?No idea what I’m doing do hoping to hear some advice from the masters

 

[fish brain]

Attention garlic experts
First time grower long time listener
When do we typically harvest garlic ? I read you want to see the scapes do a circle then it’s time or if some of the lower leaves start to die . When do you start to see the scapes grow ?No idea what I’m doing do hoping to hear some advice from the masters

You wait for the scapes to make a full circle and then cut them off.( around June) They are quite tasty and can be used like green onions. They also keep very well in the vegetable crisper in your fridge, and will last for a couple of weeks. Do not pull your garlic yet the bulbs still need to develop. If you are watering your garlic, stop when you harvest the scapes. As for when to harvest your garlic bulbs, I usually wait until the bottom three leaves die off (mid July depends on the year) You want to wait as long as you can so the the bulb fully develops, but before it starts to open. You can test this by exposing the tops of a few bulbs and checking how tight the cloves are to the stem, when they start to pull away, you know it's time. I hope this makes sense.