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I've got pumpkins for the first time

My first batch of pumpkins, I'm already surprised these survived! My mother decided to toast the seeds sprinkled with salt, olive oil and oregano, as well as baking a pie/cake with pumpkin done two ways (custard and some sort of jelly, I think). They're really good and sweet. She'll be also making soup and I've been thinking of cooking them other ways too. It's the first time I'm appreciating pumpkin this much, I am not usually a fan of it but that's because I tasted other kinds of pumpkins. These are supposed to be Rouge Vif d'Étampes (Cinderella pumpkins), they just struggled a bit, didn't grow as much as expected, so they are lighter and smaller than the ones I've seen on the web. Nonetheless, it was worth planting them :).

u/JesterGaming777 — 7 days ago

Cherry tomato plant with speckles

Hi. I'm jind of new to gardening.

My cherry tomato plants seem to be growing well at a good pace. Somehow, these have been getting yellow/brown speckles in some leaves. I've done research, which has pointed out for a possible fungus, pest or something like that. This made me too concerned and I'd like to know if your plants have experienced this and what could I do. Should I prune the affected leaves?

I want to point out that I water these daily (early morning and evening, when it cools down). Should I avoid water from getting over the leaves? I try watering mainly the ground where these are planted, however, I make the leaves somewhat wet as well. Other than that, most days have been dry lately with just occasional humid nights; coastal area. There are a few bugs in the fields nearby, if that helps.

u/JesterGaming777 — 2 months ago

Pumpkins and cherry tomato plants

https://preview.redd.it/up27mg1yim6h1.jpg?width=4624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1210f7002e56ded849fb8300ff1cd07ee250e73

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Hi! I'm kind of new at gardening (started just a few months ago), and planted diverse things around the place. I'm honestly happy to see that the pumpkins and cherry tomato plants are growing (the cherry tomato plant photo has some of the cat grass nearby around it, I just left it there). The cat grass grows so easily, so the cats have been munching on it. I have a flowebed with tiny plants growing from the seeds I planted a while ago, I hope I'll have something else to show you in the future. Also a couple of vases, the chives are still growing. The salvia, while it was starting to have a successful growth, the little leaves disappeared from one day to another - I found out some paw marks in the dirt, the stray cats have eaten the plant 😮 and now it's struggling to grow back, lol. Putting little stones around the plants seemed to work, though.

Too bad we're already in June and here the Summer is usually pretty warm. I am wondering if this is why my pansies haven't been growing like they used to several weeks ago - their leaves and overall the plants are still way too small for the time they've been planted. Maybe out of season?

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u/JesterGaming777 — 2 months ago