What are you growing in your garden this year? 2021 gardening thread

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highland145

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Hey Vi. Does it really rains a lot there? Wife and I are still planning to move out of Texas once the kid is in college. Besides San Diego, She has been looking at Seattle and Portland, as we might not be moving back to the Bay Area due to.. family issue. Seattle is too cold and gloomy. So she is wondering hows the weather over in Portland.

Since she loves plants that are more adopt to warmer climate and she has been growing those. I told her maybe we could setup a small green house in the backyard.
Might want to base that on Leo funds, besides TX.
 

bbhaag

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Got a few updates to post. This is by no means everything we have in the garden just some highlights but everything is coming along nicely especially after the rain we had yesterday. It was going on a little over three weeks with no rain and while we irrigate it's just not the same.

Got some nice grape clusters coming on. This is the Canadice variety which is a nice red table grape.
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My wife and I just finished installing the trellis system for the bulk of the tomatoes. The variety is called Amish Paste and it is a vining type hence the need for the trellises.
It was a lot of work installing this but in the end will be beneficial for a larger harvest.
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Row shot of the tomatoes trellis system.
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And finally the Vidalia(yellow granex)onions are bulbing up nicely and should be ready to harvest in another few weeks.
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highland145

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Yep I know that is why I put yellow granex in parenthesis after Vidalia. Yellow granex just doesn't sound as good as Vidalia though.:)
Don't taste the same either. That Mason Dixon crop line is a bitch.

Wait, what state are you in?
 

highland145

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Yeah, that ain't gonna be the same.

:)

Thanks for sharing. That's a lot of grass to mow, by the way.
 

bbhaag

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Yeah, that ain't gonna be the same.

:)

Thanks for sharing. That's a lot of grass to mow, by the way.
It is but my Cub Cadet XT1 makes it go a lot faster. When we first moved in I was using my Toro push mower and holy hell that took forever. After one season of that I was done. The Cub took a 4+ hour mowing time down to just a little over 2.

Who knows maybe in a few years I'll follow @Fritzo lead and buy a ztr that would make it go even faster. Hell maybe I'll just hire him to do it!.....nah I actually don't mind mowing. In a way it's kind of relaxing.:)
 
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nisryus

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So I have purchased a few yellow Ddragon fruit cuttings through Etsy (wife couldn't wait!)..

Well, the cuttings arrived but the problem was that the seller did not marked them so there is no way for me to tell which way to plant them.

Based on researching the internet, indeed the yellow dragon fruit has minimal hump (ridge) for owner to tell the direction, comparing with the red varieties. Guess I will just stick them into the pots and see if they grow! :confused2:
 

[DHT]Osiris

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I have not yet posted in this thread, aside from my groundhog joke on the first page. We've had a few challenges growing edible stuff (first time grower, really) but our flower garden is doing well.
Keyhole garden (as seen in my home and garden thread). Going well, lots of oak leaf lettuce, a summer squash, and tons of garlic. Basically everything the groundhogs won't eat. Got more seeds in, will see what survives. Hoping the groundhogs are done poking for stuff to eat.
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Start of our squash nubbins:
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Oakleaf lettuce:
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Hops plant, and misc:
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Flower garden:
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Feel free to ask questions.
 

Scarpozzi

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Funny story. My wife bought a few pumpkins back in the fall and placed them in her flower bed next to the front porch (stoop). She carved them days before Halloween (we always carved them ON Halloween growing up).

Anyways...by November 3rd, the big pumpkins had already started getting soft. Well, our house is on the corner of 2 streets and we enter/exit on the other side where our driveway is. About 2 weeks pass and I happened to see she didn't dispose of the pumpkins, but then realized they were rotten enough that it would take a shovel....so I closed the door and went back inside. :D

About a month ago, the seeds started sprouting. I think birds have picked up the seeds too because we have not only these HUGE pumpkin vines growing in the front of the house, but also in one of our raised beds in the back of the house.

My wife's excited because she wants to sell the pumpkins we grow.

My biggest complaint is having to mow around it, but we're training it to grow down the side of the sidewalk as much as possible.
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Muse

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My garden has the look of Jurassic abundance. It gets this way every year about this time by virtue of the kabocha squash that I let run wild. Some leaves are 2 feet wide.
 

bbhaag

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Not much going on right now besides waiting for everything to ripen. What about everyone else?

One thing to note is I had a massive whitefly and aphid infestation going on. They were on everything, peppers, tomatoes, beans, grapes, raspberries, ect really just a mess and it was starting to take its toll on the health of our plants.

So anyway to keep it under control I sprayed the garden with a product called AzaMax. WOW if any of you are having bug problems and don't mind spending a few bucks this product works GREAT. The best part is it's OMRI listed and has a 0 day harvest time. It uses a biological control method so don't tank mix it with anything else if you decide to use it.
BTW I know the Amazon listing for it says hydroponics but it can be tank mixed and all it takes is 1oz/gallon according to the label to control a medium infestation. That is the rate I used and it worked great.


EDIT: I guess I do have a pic to share. My wife sent me this in a text today while I was at work. My son and her harvested a few things today.
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Captante

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Not growing anything as of yet but since Connecticut made growing weed legal for medical card holders (eff Oct 1st 2021 ) I'm researching setting up a small DIY indoor grow-tent.

Coming down to if I should use a more expensive/complex hydroponics system or just go with organic potting soil.
 

bbhaag

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Not growing anything as of yet but since Connecticut made growing weed legal for medical card holders (eff Oct 1st 2021 ) I'm researching setting up a small DIY indoor grow-tent.

Coming down to if I should use a more expensive/complex hydroponics system or just go with organic potting soil.
Assuming you are new to indoor growing I would definitely go with a soilless growing media first. Nothing against a hydroponics setup its just that they can get complicated and expensive rather quickly.

If you're just looking to grow a couple of plants in your basement or spare bedroom potted containers it the way to go IMO. Get yourself a cheap LED lighting setup off Amazon, a cheap 24 hour timer to control it, a couple of 5 gallon nursery pots, and some Fox Farms Ocean Forrest Potting Soil and you should be on your way to getting a simple yet effective grow setup going.

Way more easy than a hydro setup and a lot cheaper to.
 
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Captante

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Assuming you are new to indoor growing I would definitely go with a soilless growing media first. Nothing against a hydroponics setup its just that they can get complicated and expensive rather quickly.

If you're just looking to grow a couple of plants in your basement or spare bedroom potted containers it the way to go IMO. Get yourself a cheap LED lighting setup off Amazon, a cheap 24 hour timer to control it, a couple of 5 gallon nursery pots, and some Fox Farms Ocean Forrest Potting Soil and you should be on your way to getting a simple yet effective grow setup going.

Way more easy than a hydro setup and a lot cheaper to.


Based on the above pics I'm leaning heavily towards taking your advice!

:D


Supposedly "A FRIEND OF MINE" has actually done some indoor and outdoor growing in the past as well, all soil-based... never gotten serious about it though. (could save a lot of money over dispensary prices if the quality is there)

Thing is from what I've been reading despite the higher effort/price for entry, hydroponic gives the best results for indoor... any "alleged" first-hand (erm ... 2ed I mean!!) experience?

Not sure where you are located re: legality of growing your own. (and too lazy to go back and read the thread again sorry!)

:p
 
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bbhaag

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Based on the above pics I'm leaning heavily towards taking your advice!

:D


Supposedly "A FRIEND OF MINE" has actually done some indoor and outdoor growing in the past as well, all soil-based... never gotten serious about it though. (could save a lot of money over dispensary prices if the quality is there)

Thing is from what I've been reading despite the higher effort/price for entry, hydroponic gives the best results for indoor... any "alleged" first-hand (erm ... 2ed I mean!!) experience?

Not sure where you are located re: legality of growing your own. (and too lazy to go back and read the thread again sorry!)

:p
I don't grow on a commercial level but I do have some contacts in the commercial cannabis industry that I keep in touch with. Most of them work at the Granville, IL facility known as Mid-American CBD.
Check out the site and just watch the vid loop on their website. Notice anything? All their cannabis is grown in containers not by hydroponics. I've toured the facility and let me tell you....there is nothing else like it.
 
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nisryus

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After almost tow months, of all the trees I have, the Jabucticaba and Violet De Bordeaux fig are not doing well.

As you can see, the Violet De Bordeaux fig has lost all of its leaves. I checked and the root is still good. We been avoiding full texas sun and keeping the soil moist and well drain. The Chicago, Brown Turkey and several otehr figs were all doing well.

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Leaves on the Jabucticaba have all turned brownish within the last two weeks. Soil have been amended with more organic matter liek compost and sphagnum peat moss to make it more acidic, plus water every two to three days to keep it moist. Root is in good shape too. Checked online and people said if the leaves turn brown/purple, that mean it needs more organic matter. But it has been well fed. Not sure what is going on.

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[DHT]Osiris

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More squash. MOAR SQUASH.

Seriously, I have a 5' radius summer squash plant cranking one of these out a day. There's 20 on the stalk of varying states of growth.
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Yum.
 
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