r/GardenersJapan

I’m very new to container gardening and this is my first time ever growing flowers from seed🥹 I’m a very proud mom.

Time to see if these will sprout and join my jalapeños, serranos, and poblanos.

The marigolds I grew from seed for the first time (White Gold Max) have grown this much already!
I planted them into two long planters and two slit pots of different sizes.
I hope they keep growing well before the rainy season starts.

It feels like they’re blooming a little earlier than usual this year… Looks like it’s going to be a hot one.

Hi there! Just found this sub!

here is my little balcony. As you can see from the dead and stressed plant, I'm really really bad at keeping plants.

I only recently found a decent balance of watering (Hydrangea on the foreground is recoverying after being in my care, one Ginko dead few weeks ago, the other seems doing fine, potato seems ok), but... I'll soon leave tokyo for several weeks leaving the plants to my wife care (If I'm bad a gardening, she totally ignores it. "it's your plant, you have to take care of them" kind of treatment).

So, I bought a Sonoff water valve that I can automatize. My long term plan is to put a humidity sensor that tells it when to water it. But for now, I have a trouble: the hydrangea really like water everyday, everyone else just every few days. and the heat is coming. (balcony is facing east, so it get really hot in the morning).

Any suggestion?

Had them rip up the concrete and set to work creating a kind of cozy garden spot after we moved in (almost a decade ago now). Got some pushback from people questioning why we'd reduce the value of our home by eliminating a parking spot, which was depressing to hear. Kind of feel like we've got it about the way we want it now. Spring is my favorite month.

Ugh, a mosquito bit me. So itchy.

Who is this jerk and how do I get it to stop eating my poor cucumber and watermelon plants?

As you can see in the pictures, I discovered what I think are Mealybugs on my indoor little tree. I’ve sprayed it with Benica and removed as many as I saw afterwards with alcoholic wipes, but I’d still like to know from the more experienced people in this reddit… will it survive and is there a high risk of this going to my (many) other indoor plants? 🥺

Into very near other fukugi.

It’s my first year gardening on my 4th floor rooftop and what started as two wooden planters in November turned into an array of plants and an obsession.

I dealt with an aphid infestation in one of my wooden planters around March of this year, which caused my cauliflower plants to bolt. I have since replaced them with a zucchini plant.

Any tips or advice to avoid aphids, grubs and other problems? Should I set my large planters on some bricks to elevate them? Do I need more marigolds? Do marigolds work?

So far I have: cabbage plants, sweet potato, beans, tomatoes, strawberries, various herbs, lavender, marigolds, zucchini, tomatoes, eggplant, kale, komatsuna, and peppers. (Some not pictured above)

**EDIT**
Thank you everyone for your suggestions! To summarize the main suggestions for anyone else in my shoes:

- fill pots and planters up with more soil
- figure out a way to provide shade
- move planters/pots away from wall
- a couple suggestions for pesticides were given

I'm excited to make these improvements and hope to share positive results! Already had a nice harvest of komatsuna, basil, kale, and other herbs and the taste was unmatched.

just pulled yesterday afternoon, 300ml cup for scale.