my previously very healthy and productive squash have become very strange! these are center cut squash, and something similar is happening to my honey nut squashed nearby. could it be mites? mosaic virus? something else? and is the squash still safe to eat? thank you!
Hello everyone. I've always gardened organically since childhood gardening with my grandfather. My yard is small but many native plants. The natives help tremendously with balance. In 27 years in my home I have never used any pesticides, not organic or natural ones, no soaps, nothing but nature. My tiny lot has turtles, snakes, frogs, lots of birds. I grow lots of edibles, peaches, blueberries, raspberries, elderberry, Juneberry, aronia berry, goji berry, lots of herbs, and cucumber mostly for fermented pickles. I mostly grow only heirloom tomatoes because they taste the best, way better than hybrid homegrown.
Green hard flesh on ripe San Marzano tomatoes. This is the only tomato on this bed. I planted garlic last Fall in this bed. The garlic cloves I planted had brownish dots and I planted them anyway. Come spring very few sprouted. Did I introduce disease?
If not what could this be? They don’t seem to be edible.
Beginner Gardner here! Wanting to start a garden with raised beds and pots/buckets. There are so many soils/ fertilizers. Which are the best organic and sustainable? And should you mix more than one?
I’ve lived in my house for 4 years now. Just the last two years my tree has fruited, but only leaving one or two small dainty avocados a year (which fell to the floor, I never even realized it had Avocados on it at the time), much like the smaller ones in my pictures. Anywhoooo this year there are so many! Does anyone know fact’s about avocado trees, like why this would finally be happening our 4th year here? Also they seem to be only growing on specific branches.. weird? Any information is much appreciated! New to the Avocado life..
From compost to fertilizer ask me how!
Cherry tomatoes
As the title says. I've ordered beneficial nematodes, ladybugs, and lacewing eggs from them so far. Of course it will take a while to see any results from the nematodes, and despite my best efforts of watering everything and putting the ladybugs in a high aphid area, they still flew away. I really couldn't see any lacewing eggs in the package, although I looked pretty closely.
I've ordered another round of the same friends out of pure desperation, but I'm wondering how others' experiences have been.
Well is there?
If I’m a regular with my organic fertilizing of the lawn, don’t those nutrients eventually make it to my lawn trees? Why should I have to buy tree fertilizer that is supposedly for trees? I’m skeptical.
Perfect combo ! Feast tonight.😄
Like the title says… is it salvageable?
I have this weed every where in my garden beds. I didnt mulch at all, that probably is the reason. I am in US zone 8a/b. What can I do in the fall/next spring to prevent these weeds in the next year? I imagine these seeds are already everywhere laying the foundation for the next year. I dont use chemical herbicides in my organic veggie garden.
On 3rd August I put 3 persimmon seeds in the soil under a plastic bag. I put them 1 cm into the soil. Every 2-3 days I opened the plastic bag for ~40 minutes so they could breathe. Some youtube guy said to do so.
Today I was checking on them and saw mold on the soil on top of where one of the seeds were planted. 2 out of 3 seeds are covered in mold. 1 of them is not and on top of it grew some type of grass? You can see it on the photo.
I think the problem is in the soil, it consists of ~60% soil, ~25% peat, ~15% vermicompost, if I remember right, and I also added some sand, maybe 10% idk honestly.
*the seeds are from real persimmons, my grandma had them for some months; before putting them into the soil I left them for 2 hours in water and for 15 minutes into hydrogen peroxide 3% which is a month overdue.
What should I do?
I’m confused if something got into this tomato…. I don’t have much experience with that in the past. It’s a patio garden but I did all organic this year.
Someone placed this rock on my yard, by a holly tree. The blurred word is the “N-word” that I have no right to use or post.
I would really appreciate anyone telling me what this means. Does the statement or symbol have meaning.
This is my very first Reddit post. So, please be nice.