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I have grown corn before but typically the ears grow on the side of a main stock. These are branching with the ears growing a stalk of their own.

Also, this looks like an ear and ‘flower’ growing together. Is this normal?

the top two advise sowing as late as mid june, wondering if perhaps the climate crisis may work in my favour here..
I have a potted garden so I have plenty of different sized pots as well as propagation trays, however I’m assuming it’s definitely too late to sow indoors to plant out?
if it’s a maybe/maybe not then I’m thinking there’s no harm in trying and if that’s the case, could somebody please advise pot size/indoor/outdoor/location etc.
I’d also love any advice for what I should be doing in a south facing (sun trap) potted garden in july in the uk please!

edit: please excuse my username, I’m an advanced beginner at best, I just like cypress hill..

Getting all this almost everyday!!

This is the first plant I’ve ever managed to keep alive and it’s thriving, but do I need to repot it??? It’s in a five gallon pot and I never imagined I’d need a larger one than that. The plant is growing great, I just have no clue how much space roots need? It’s an elephant ear plant I’m pretty sure. Any advice is appreciated, I’d like to keep it alive for a long time.

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Hello to all garden lovers. Today I got home again and I'm sitting with the cherries, I picked the early ones 2 weeks ago, there's only one left, a late variety but very productive and resistant with very large fruits and a special taste. Its story goes like this when I bought the cherries, the gentleman said to take this one as a gift and take care of it because I won't regret it. It was the smallest and the most bitter. Now after 7 years it's the biggest and with the best fruit. So dear gardeners, draw your own conclusions, I wish you good luck

I don’t have the best green thumb but I’ve been elated with my mint growth this year. This morning while watering my plants , I found these little fluffy, fibrous like things that popped up around my plants. Can anyone tell me what these are ? Is this normal?

🌱 Keep calm and carry on gardening... even better, teach your kids how to do it!

Nothing beats watching little hands dig in the dirt, plant seeds, and light up when those first sprouts pop up.

Gardening with kids isn’t just about veggies. it’s patience, science, responsibility, and joy all in one.

Who else is getting their kids outside this season? Drop your best kid-gardening tips below!

What causes these holes in the leaves? I’m noticing a few all over the plant

Added my first fruit trees this year. So far dwarf cherries and apples with some quince/goumi hopefully arriving in mail soon!

I had a corner with poor soil and little sun, that I was using for volunteer brambles and perrennial flowers that were being outcompeted by larger stuff wherever else they were growing - and turned that into a little wildlife pond/puddle w ramshorn snails and minnows. Torrential rain last night is why waters muddy!

I added 300ish square feet of growing space under my kids trampoline. It floods making seed/seedlings difficult to get established.

My gravel driveways useless, and was a dumping ground for contractor material + garbage from upstairs tenants so I cleaned that up, dumped a few hundred thousand wildflower seeds lol and a handful of plugs. Genuinely shocked so many successfully germinated it gets very little sunlight + its gravel 😀

Rabbits, I donated a container bed and a compost area to them. Got some free sod, an amazing hollowed out log from feild at top of street and dug a warren using old ikea storage container and some 8" scraps of pvc pipe. Its approximately 20'x4'.

I feel like my yards a month+ behind schedule this year ... anyone else?

You guys told me to just plant something so I did. Grabbed some tomatoes eggplant cucumbers and blueberries 🫐. Should mulch the beds, and if so do you have any recommendations?

I know I still need some lattices / cages, they are on order

First harvest of the year!