re: 2019 Garden Thread

Agreed. I overwintered an Anaheim pepper plant and it’s unbelievable how well it’s doing this year. It probably has 60 peppers on it right now. I think I’m going to get like 5 peppers that I eat a lot, put them in containers, and start overwintering them. It’s so mild here you really only have to bring them inside a couple times.

With the production from those plants, I feel like I could cut my pepper seed starts in half.

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Why do you cut off the lower leaves of the tomato plants? A couple months ago, someone asked me if I did this, and I had never heard of it before. Does it protect the plants from bugs or induce more growth? Just curious if I should be doing this, also.

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What they both said, mostly because I’ve noticed in the past those lower branches just get old and kinda wrinkly once there’s three or four above them, and they start to get shaded out anyway. Blight prevention, keeping the plant focused on new growth and fruit, and allowing better airflow to prevent mold all are good reasons too. It’s not something I overthink, about once a week a take off the lowest branch, or any that just aren’t getting sun.

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That pepper plant is enviable for sure. I might try to leave one or two in the ground this winter.

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Can’t stress enough that I believe that plant is the way it is because it was “bred” not far from here. It’s burpee’s tobasco that obviously isn’t too far removed from the originals a few parishes over. It grew like that last year, and choked out a jalapeño next to it. Maybe it consumed that plants lifeforce or something, but none of my other plants even the ones I also overwintered are even half that tall now or grew that tall last year. The main advantage to overwintering is you don’t have to fool with keeping seeds warm in January to have a decently developed plant in March. It still does take them some time to shake off the dormancy, but once they get going I believe they put out new growth quicker because the root system is already developed.

Peroxide treatments seem to be giving me a leg up on the leaf spot.

Lower, older leaves are drying up.



Newer growth up top looks much healthier.


Despite the leaf spot taking a toll, I have quite a few tomatoes growing.






Herb box has exploded


My sole Paul Robeson plant.



A couple of those flowers have small tomatoes starting to develope. May get some PR’s after all

Pepper plants are still rolling along.

Cucumbers still aren’t really producing. I do have a couple growing. Still no bees. The plants look beautiful though.

My beans look like crap. I give up on them. I’m not sure what their problem is. Flowers like crazy, not a single bean yet.

Looks good man.

My first red full sized tomato is going to be on the Celebrity plant that I planted a few weeks early, which I guess is no surprise. A couple on the bottom cluster are turning. I counted the other day and the plant has over 50 tomatoes on it. Pretty wild. It looks like it's done producing though, because it's slowing down on the flower production.

I've had a few turn red on the sweet million plant, but still waiting on the rest of the plants. I also picked my first couple cucumbers this week. At the rate they were going I figured I'd never get one ha. I'll try to get some photos later on.

No ripe peppers but the plants are pretty loaded. Still steady picking squash and zucchini.

You do. Take a few out and put in individual containers. They don’t need to be in big containers

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nismosao

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Looks great!

Does your camera have some sort of depth correction? Those first few pictures are tripping me out.

Couple of things........
First I noticed this morning a couple of plant issues in my garden. I have a lot of yellow squash growing but some are rotting and some look to be eaten on the ends.



Second.... toward the bottom of my green bean plants some leaves are yellow and spotted.

Any thoughts?

Some garden pictures.

Zucchini plants growing huge but not as many zuccs as yellow squash.



Some of my garden is within the confines of the chicken pen from when I had chickens. I couldn't see letting that fertile ground going to waste. Lol.....



Green beans



Giant Marconi peppers



Tomatoes



Yellow squash

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toward the bottom of my green bean plants some leaves are yellow and spotted.

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Mine have always done this. Never quite figured out why. Usually they still make a ton of beans (except for this year) before the plants fully go to shite. This year my plants are going to shite and I haven't gotten the first bean.

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