re: 2023 Spring Garden Thread

Here are pics of blooms. As you can see they are healthy plants. There were a ton of blooms but still have alot on there but they just wilt away essentially. But some tomatoes are on plants so I'm kinda at a loss

At the bottom of my tomato plant. Got other leaves looking similar on the same plant. Diffent tomato plant just has similar leaf spotting but no yellowing yet

What am I dealing with. Raised garden bed. Watering pretty often

What are those baskets called?

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finally warmed up enough to get my tomato and pepper starts in.

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Not sure about where you are living but the summer heat in South La is too much for tomatoes to do anything. I won't put new starts in until September

Looks like septoria leaf spot. Spray em with some daconil or copper fungicide.

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How do you know when to harvest it?

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When about 1/2 to 2/3 of the green tops have died back.

About 1/3 of the onions cured and going in the barn fridge. The red and yellow granex cured faster than the 1015s and white onions. The rack is back full and there is another 30 or so in the garden to come out.


Beans are about done. I picked about 1/5th to 1/6th of what I getting 3 weeks ago. Strawberries are still producing surprisingly. The potatoes will be dug up next weekend after the plants completely dry and die on top.

I planted those onions in Late December. They are on a drip irrigation with fertilizer injection. Getting bigger onions is all about growing the green part as much as possible. Onions love nitrogen. The more sets of leaves on top, the more layers of onion you get. I think there is also a sweet spot depth on planting them too. Too deep, and the soil really inhibits bulbing. Once I saw they started to bulb, I went and pulled dirt from around the bulb to give it room to expand. They also dont like competition, so you need to keep their area weed free.

This is my first year to grow them, so I'm stunned at how well they did.

I need to take some pictures of one of the issues I'm having. Tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, cucumbers, beans, and zucchini are all doing great. However my squash not so much. I have three tromboncino vines. Two of them are staying small but look great. One is about 4 feet tall now and has turned yellow - both leaf and vine. All of the female fruit sprouts shriveled and died at about an inch long - not related to pollination. I had one get pollinated a few weeks ago, and grew to about 6 inches long, then died.

My three zephyr plants are doing ok, but the roots are very loose in the soil. Never had that happen before. They have been getting a healthy serving of P and K.

I do have a lot of low growing weeds in that bed since I didn't have time to spread mulch. I am also dealing with a massive cucumber beetle population. I can't get a cantaloupe flower open long enough to be pollinated before they devour it.

Not sure if the cucumber beetles infected my squash plants with something, but It doesn't look to be a wilt of any kind. I've been modest with watering and am showing no signs of under watering. I fertilized with garden tone every few weeks like normal for the last couple months. With a light root drench of miracle grow once per month since March.

This happened all of a sudden after the third root drench 1.5 weeks ago.

I'll try to snap some pictures this afternoon. I'm stumped on this one since my zucchini and everything else in my garden is looking great.


Also, this is my first year growing Amelia tomatoes and... bravo... solid growth, impressive fruit set, and they taste pretty darn good too. I do believe these will be a regular going forward since they've been so easy.