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The gardening thread. What are you growing in your garden this year?

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bbhaag said:
Nice, so how many ounces or grams is 30 tomatoes? Never grown those types of tomatoes before so I'm actually kind of curious.
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This is more like pounds. It's enough to fill up a bread basket, and we get another half dozen every few days.

We'll probably throw half in the hedgerow and give the other half away. We only eat like one a day as it is.
 
bbhaag said:
How old is it? Don't need an exact age but a rough estimate would be helpful. A pic would be even better.🙂
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No idea on age, it was already there when we got the property. Doesn't look that old. Trunk is about 8-9" in diameter. We pruned it last fall. It produced only a handfull of apples, same as the last couple of years. And by the time the squirrels get to it, there's none left.
 

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akugami said:
No idea on age, it was already there when we got the property. Doesn't look that old. Trunk is about 8-9" in diameter. We pruned it last fall. It produced only a handfull of apples, same as the last couple of years. And by the time the squirrels get to it, there's none left.
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Hmmm, @akugami that looks like a healthy tree with a lot of nice green growth. Was this photo taken recently?

How often are you fertilizing it and do you also fertilize your lawn?

So I'm gonna pry a little bit but where do you live? I don't need an exact location like a street address or town but a regional location might me helpful.
 
The picture was from about two weeks ago.

No on the lawn fertilization. Lawn was in bad shape when I got the property a few years ago. I haven't had time to try to even begin rehabilitating the lawn. I've just been so busy with life stuff. Work, kids, etc.

The wife did fertilize the apple tree this spring. She's more into gardening and stuff. I'm just the assistant. We pruned the apple tree last fall, to try to stimulate growth, but that hasn't helped.

There's a peach tree next to it blooms like crazy, but the peach tree developed rust spots on the leaves this spring, and all the peaches have spots on them. I think I need to spray the peach tree with some sort of fungicide after the leaves all drop off.
 
akugami said:
The picture was from about two weeks ago.

No on the lawn fertilization. Lawn was in bad shape when I got the property a few years ago. I haven't had time to try to even begin rehabilitating the lawn. I've just been so busy with life stuff. Work, kids, etc.

The wife did fertilize the apple tree this spring. She's more into gardening and stuff. I'm just the assistant. We pruned the apple tree last fall, to try to stimulate growth, but that hasn't helped.

There's a peach tree next to it blooms like crazy, but the peach tree developed rust spots on the leaves this spring, and all the peaches have spots on them. I think I need to spray the peach tree with some sort of fungicide after the leaves all drop off.
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Hey thanks for answering my questions. So my advice is to stop pruning it and stop fertilizing it.
To me it looks like your apple tree is going into excessive tree vigor which believe it not is a bad thing.

Over vigorous trees expend all their energy in growing wood and do not produce flower buds. Typically, this occurs for two reasons: over-fertilization and over-pruning.

One question you didn't answer was your regional location. The reason I asked was because late season frosts can also hinder bloom formation and fruit production. Temperatures below 29F(-1.6C)will prevent fruit formation.
 
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What are you growing in your garden this year?​

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Not nearly enough. I am going to get serious next year. My neighbors give me mangoes and citrus so I don't need those. I only do herbs, tomatoes, pineapples, and bell peppers. I want to add sweet potatoes (love them) variety of hot peppers, different tomatoes, and key limes.
 
DAPUNISHER said:
Not nearly enough. I am going to get serious next year. My neighbors give me mangoes and citrus so I don't need those. I only do herbs, tomatoes, pineapples, and bell peppers. I want to add sweet potatoes (love them) variety of hot peppers, different tomatoes, and key limes.
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I love hot peppers but I top out at jalapenos for fresh eating. I love hot peppers so much. In season I eat around half a pound a week and grow around 3-5 different varieties in my garden.

If you're serious I would recommend starting with a Pot-a-peno. It's an AAS winner with exceptional disease resistance and a more uniform heat which is mild and not to overbearing.
It can be gown in a pot to hence the name.

Jalapeno M is another great variety but they bring a lot more heat and can be inconsistent from pepper to pepper. It's the defacto fresh market pepper though so it's worth trying.
 
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My son and I like seriously spicy foods so I will go at least Habanero Francisca. My wife grows some varietal of red and green jalapeno, no idea which. We give a bunch to the one neighbor that loves to stuff them and bacon wrap them.
 
I like the sweet flavor of jalapeños, Serranos, and Fresno's, but the Fresno peppers are thin walled…so while they bring more heat than jalpeños, you get leas “meat.”
Not a fan of he underlying flavor of the habs or the “c. chinense” species of hot peppers…and they can get “TOO FCKN HOT” for my liking.
 
BoomerD said:
I like the sweet flavor of jalapeños, Serranos, and Fresno's, but the Fresno peppers are thin walled…so while they bring more heat than jalpeños, you get leas “meat.”
Not a fan of he underlying flavor of the habs or the “c. chinense” species of hot peppers…and they can get “TOO FCKN HOT” for my liking.
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They don't all taste the same. And the heat is great and controllable in something like a fajita bowl. I make the Mexican rice then mix in some of the habs, layer in the fajita makings, queso, guacamole, and sour cream. They can hit you hard in salsa or wing sauce though, no doubt about it.
 
akugami said:
@bbhaag Woops...must have missed the location question. But we're in Delco Pennsylvania, near the Philadelphia airport.
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No worries but just try my suggestions and see if it helps. It is always hard to troubleshoot issues like these over the internet but I try my best.🙂
 
Earlier this year when planting the pumpkin/melon patch we forgot that we planted some golden watermelon.

This melon has been sitting on our counter for a few weeks and a couple of days ago my wife decided to split it open and WOW what a surprise!

How much fun is this? It tastes really good. Anyone else grown these before?
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Wringing out the last of the harvest for the year.

Pumpkins, gourds, peppers, eggplant, and a few other items.
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The last of the watermelon came ripe as well. This is an heirloom variety called Ali Baba. It was reintroduced about 20 years ago after seeds were sent in by Aziz Nael, an Iraqi man who had been growing this fantastic variety in Iraq for many years.

It is regarded by many gardeners world wide as the best tasting watermelon.
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I love wisteria

I've got a three seasons room I'm going to use to grow some superhot peppers, muscadines, and start some thorny honey locusts that I'd like to move outside next year.
 
When we lived in Modesto, there was an old farmhouse near Oakdale, CA that had a LARGE pine-type tree...every year, the wisteria would take the tree over...you'd see wisteria blooms 40+ feet up in the air.
Finally, someone bought the property, bulldozed the house and cut down the tree and wisteria.

If left to grow...they can get HUGE!

www.atlasobscura.com

Sierra Madre Wistaria Vine in Sierra Madre

The gorgeous purple flowers of the vine are open to the public just once a year.
www.atlasobscura.com www.atlasobscura.com
 
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BoomerD said:
When we lived in Modesto, there was an old farmhouse near Oakdale, CA that had a LARGE pine-type tree...every year, the wisteria would take the tree over...you'd see wisteria blooms 40+ feet up in the air.
Finally, someone bought the property, bulldozed the house and cut down the tree and wisteria.

If left to grow...they can get HUGE!

www.atlasobscura.com

Sierra Madre Wistaria Vine in Sierra Madre

The gorgeous purple flowers of the vine are open to the public just once a year.
www.atlasobscura.com www.atlasobscura.com
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That place is amazing! I can totally understand where they let it go un-pruned and it took over the home.

Thanks for the link.
 
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