Gardening: My Tomatoe and Pepper Progress

[bleme]

I ran the tiller through and hit a “rock”. Excavation revealed some odd cement blocks.

 

[passedpawn]

Need a farm jack to pull that up. From a clothes line post?

 

[bleme]

I finished digging it up last night and the cylinder looks like an old clothes line. No idea what the block next to it was. Got the beans and the okra planted this morning. It’s my first time working with landscape fabric, so we will see how that goes. It seems like it will be really handy for stuff coming up from seed.

 

[Deadalus]

Planted my pepper starts today: 12 bell. 4 jalapeño, 4 Anaheim, and 4 habanero. Also planted 4 eggplants, a couple rows of beans, some cukes. Working on my herb garden too. I have a shaded strip of border along my driveway that I am trying out some perennial and annual along with some herbs in the garden. I'm hoping the perennials take up there. Yes I did go ahead and plant the cilantro but I will plant more later!

Best of all was I got my drip irrigation working! I stupidly left it connected last winter and it sprung a leak. Surprisingly, I YouTubed how to fix it and there's a common threaded piece on the valve that will bulge out that if removed and rethreaded will work just fine. I thought for sure it was busted and I was hand watering. I had enough of that!

 

[bleme]

Beans are in. Yellow squash, tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are growing like crazy. I also have 7 tomatoes, 3 tepin chilis, golden beets and salsify in grow bags. I’m hoping to get all the bags watered by drip line this year, but we will see.

 

[Deadalus]

Beans are in. Yellow squash, tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are growing like crazy. I also have 7 tomatoes, 3 tepin chilis, golden beets and salsify in grow bags. I’m hoping to get all the bags watered by drip line this year, but we will see.

Good idea to claim the playground space for gardening. Our kids had outgrown ours and since it was falling down I demolished it. My wife has gotten the idea that it would be a nice spot for a she shed!

 

[estricklin]

I finished digging it up last night and the cylinder looks like an old clothes line. No idea what the block next to it was. Got the beans and the okra planted this morning. It’s my first time working with landscape fabric, so we will see how that goes. It seems like it will be really handy for stuff coming up from seed.
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The rectangle one sorta looks like a shallow footer, maybe there was an old house or shed there at one time.

 

[jcfontario]

I am the family "greenhouse"! About 100 tomato plants (12 varieties including numerous heirlooms) and about 50 peppers (8 varieties). I grow them for our kids and for the in-laws who have a much sunnier garden than we have. I generally only keep about 10 tomatoes and about 8 pepper plants for our immediate use. The n-laws garden provides the veggies for canning.

 

[bleme]

100% germination in just 4 days. These beans are freaks!

 

[z-bob]

I just finished building a cinderblock raised bed and filling it with municipal compost (It's heavy and looks more like black dirt that compost) I've planted 2 tomato plants and transplanted some multiplying onions into it, and I'm fixin' to set out a few jalapeno plants. Wednesday we go out of town for a week and I don't expect any of it except maybe the onions to still be alive when we get back but who knows, it's got a chance, and a friend is going to keep a few plants in pots alive for me while I'm gone so I can replant if necessary. I'm moving those up to 1 gallon pots today.

So many things I was going to plant this year, but I'm lucky to get any of it in; been out of state more than I've been home since February and it's not over yet.

When we get back, I will plant some trombone squash Zucchino Rampicante Squash Also might start building another raised bed. I have I think 39 blocks left and a good bit of compost still in the back of my truck.

 

[Kent88]

Friend of mine shared this with me, from Reddit. I figure there is a non-zero chance it's someone from this crew:

 

[bleme]

Is this root rot, some other disease, or pest?

 

[bleme]

First ripe tomatoes and peppers!

 

[passedpawn]

First hot sauce of the year.

 

[Hanglow]

We are having rather a cool start to summer, bit annoying in terms of growth of plants. 15c during the day and also some 40mph gusts

 

[Deadalus]

Is this root rot, some other disease, or pest?

Squashes? Might be powdery mildew are you getting frosted looking leaves? It's insect related. That's what usually kills mine. Squash borders are another more specific problem.

 

[bleme]

Squashes? Might be powdery mildew are you getting frosted looking leaves? It's insect related. That's what usually kills mine. Squash borders are another more specific problem.

There is no frosting at all. It started on one plant and the first thing Google produced for “squash leaves rust” was root rot. Since then it has spread to leaves of other plants that touch the first one though so I am thinking there is a mite involved and maybe it’s just too small to see.

 

[Deadalus]

There is no frosting at all. It started on one plant and the first thing Google produced for “squash leaves rust” was root rot. Since then it has spread to leaves of other plants that touch the first one though so I am thinking there is a mite involved and maybe it’s just too small to see.

Have you tried treating it? I'd remove the affected leaves and maybe try neem oil.

 

[bleme]

Yesterday was NOT a good garden day. My cucumber trellis collapsed! And some cat decided that my bean plant made a nice, cool bed. I think I’ve got both fixed now, with guy wires on the trellis and bamboo skewers to guard the beans.

 

[corkybstewart]

I was looking forward to spending the summer at home so I planted the garden. Tomatoes were looking good, some already starting to turn orange. Lots of carrots, beets, scallions had come up and were doing well. Then the wife decided we'd spend the summer at "her" house in France. Assuming the automatic drip system works we'll have lots of stuff to harvest in September. And my BIL in France used our backyard for a garden so we should have lots of tomatoes and squash over here. Later this week I'll go to the nursery down the road and see what else I can plant.

 

[bleme]

So I bought a 3-pack of chiltepin peppers this year and one of them got its first blooms today. I went to check the others and noticed that one of the plants is hairy! I used Google Lens to look it up and it says that it’s a Rocoto pepper plant. I guess we will see….

 

[Hanglow]

Rocotos usually have purple flowers too

 

[applescrap]

Is this root rot, some other disease, or pest?

I do see some powdery mildew I think, or its after effects. But my first instinct was a pest. Check the under side of leaf for small bugs, like mites. Some are smaller I wonder. If it could be powdery mildew get rid of that leaf, well do anyways I think. I use pest spray, many here dont ymmv. Sorry to see. If it's not powdery mildew try washing under side and top of leaf.

 

[applescrap]

The self watering gardens are in and I will update before to long. Beautiful gardens all!

 

[bleme]

My jalapeño and bell pepper plants are packed!

 

[bleme]

Rocotos usually have purple flowers too

No blooms yet, which sounds like it might be typical of rocotos at 90F, but time will tell. I looked at a few rocoto pics this weekend and my leaves don't seem as hairy - but they aren't glossy like my other peppers either, and have a very fuzzy stem. Just looking at stems, they seem to match the Black Cobra closest, which would be disappointing.

 

[Hanglow]

Sowed all my indoor tomatoes march 13th, these are the most advanced. Lots more dull weather forecast so not sure I'll see much progress
Godorst sibiri, a Russian beefsteak, sevryuga a Russian oxheart and bloody butcher

 

[passedpawn]

My jalapeño and bell pepper plants are packed!

What're your plans for both?

 

[bleme]

What're your plans for both?

The bells are Golden Bells. We will probably eat about half fresh, in salads and such, and about half roasted (airfryer).

The jalapenos are supposed to be a larger variety, good for poppers. I love what I call All-Out poppers, with bacon and all, but last year I started doing short-and-shoddy poppers that are basically cream cheese in a jalapeno boat, and makes a good side to most meals.

Any that we can't use before they turn red will go into sauces. I've always fermented sauces in the past and loved how they turned out but I made a quick batch of cayenne sauce last week and everyone loved it so I'm sure I'll do some 30 minute sauces with the jalapenos as well.

 

[Homebrew Harry]

Mmmm...poppers