One side of the house gets little-to-no sun, but it’s still a brightly-lit shady area. Looking for recs on both low (up to 3’) and taller (up to 8-10’) shrubs. Thanks for any help!
So, I ordered dahlia seeds and before anyone says anything, I know the risks, but I don’t mind being surprised! Wish me luck.
I never get stalks like they sell in the grocery store. These are skinny and long and only good to flavor soups with.
The Altadena community garden is in the process of rebuilding. They need lots of help with mulching the walkways.
Help needed from volunteers on 5/23 to make this a success. A few hours from you will help a lot. 🙏🏽
This is a County Master Gardeners coordinated event. See contact details below.
Contact Name: Jessica Yarger
Contact Email: jayarger@ucanr.edu
Address: 587 W Palm St, Altadena, CA 91001
Addl Info: The garden is located on the corner of Lincoln Ave and W. Palm. The entrance to the parking lot is on Palm. Please park outside the garden gate as there maybe lots of volunteers.
Coordinate with us for more info if you are interested in helping.
I put paper bags over my most sensitive and plastic over the raised beds, but we shall see. Fingers Crossed!
both of the small sugar baby watermelon i have are developing these black spots, any tips on how to manage this? i just sprayed them with calcium hoping to prevent blossom end rot, but im not sure why this happened.
Hi, everyone!
I had a couple volunteer tomatoes pop up (in new containers! Not sure how it happened) and was wondering if there's a way to tell relatively early on what kind they are - indeterminate vs determinate - so I can start figuring out how to support them in a very crowded little spot. Many thanks for any guidance.
(There's one in the bottom right of the photo and one near the top right.)
These randomly popped up in my Van Nuys backyard this year.
For the corn, I know I'm going to have to move it to something bigger.
For the tomatoes, I read something about a certain fungus? Is that what that looks like?
Also, any tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated
I am in grow zone 10b about 4 miles from the coast. I bought an Indeterminite Bush Early Girl tomato plant in early April. I transplanted it into a temporary larger pot (see picture dtd 4/22) to grow taller and stronger before putting it into a pot that has 12.5 gallons of soil (see pic for soil used). When I bought the plant there were two connected leaders coming from the base of the plant. When I transplanted it on 4/22 I took off the bottom leaves (see 4/22 pic) and splayed the leaders out onto their sides for planting deeply into it's final larger pot. Within about 10 days I saw a tomato forming on each plant.
This Bush Early girl was growing well in height until recently. I am not seeing the plant grow upwards in height or bushier, as much as I would expect. Nor have the blossoms set more fruit. I fertilized with a 12-10-5 ratio about 10 days. I have been watering every 2 to 3 days until the water drains out the bottom, using a long nozzle that I am able to plunge into the soil, allowing me to keep the entire plant dry. It has been about 34 days since purchasing at a height of @ 3 to 4 inches. I have removed all the leaves under the the first blossoms with one tomato, of each leader.
As I understand, as a determinate tomato, the Bush Early girl tomatoes are supposed to all come to maturity at once, then stop producing. Is this true? Do they have another harvest after the first?
While I know it is comparing apples to oranges. I included a picture of my Parks Whopper indeterminate potted tomato plant, to show how well it is growing under the same exact conditions ~ temperature, amount of sun per day, pot size, soil used, amount of soil, two leaders in each pot, fertilizer used, when fertilized, health of plants, etc. Neither have shown any signs of pests or disease,and they look very healthy (see pics dtd 5/17).
Online it says for Bush Early Girl the full height is 3 feet, and mature fruit in 54 days after planting. In summary I am concerned that I am not going to have much produce from this plant. Is there anything I can do to help it to continue growing and produce more tomatoes?
Lastly daytime temps have generally been between 70 and 80 degrees. Nighttime high 50's to mid 60's degrees.
I live in the valley in LA (zone 10a), and I’m wondering if anyone in my area or a comparable zone has experience with this plant. (I don’t own one yet, the pic is from google.) Specifically, I’m curious about the extent to which it goes dormant in our winters. My understanding is that when faced with a frost, it dies back and has to be cut back pretty substantially. However, I’ve heard mixed things about whether or not it actually gets cold enough here for that to happen. Anyone have first hand experience and able to answer? Thank you! 🙏🏻
I live in Orange County, have been planting summer gardens at this house for 12 years, never an issue. This week I planted 4 starter tomato plants. The next morning, one was completely gone. We have cameras and checked, nothing triggered it to record, but we could tell that sometime between 2:44 AM and 4:44 AM, it disappeared.
We have now had two more vanish. One between 9:44 AM and 10:44 AM, and the other again, between 2:44 AM and 3:44 AM.
What could be doing this? They were small plants, no flowers, no fruit. the ENTIRE plant is gone, like nothing was ever planted.
I also currently have cucumbers, serrano peppers, and bell peppers planted right next to the tomatoes, they are untouched.
We do have rats and squirrels here, but the rats don't come out in the day, and the squirrels don't come out at night. Other animals that have visited our yard are coyotes, raccoons, cats, and opossums, but they always trigger the camera.
I have never had hornworms here, but i'm sure it's a possibility. Could they eat an entire plant in an hour and leave zero evidence? I am so confused by this!
Planning on replanting this weekend and putting netting around the plants to prevent this. Any ideas? It's so wild!
I need some help!
Pertinent info: zone 10a, sunset 22, weather is 55-85 lately, young mammoth basil in a raised bed with raised bed bagged mix / compost / perlite Morning sun from 7-2, afternoon shade afterwards.
I want to grow this mammoth basil but it is flowering, or at least budding. The classic advice is to pinch the bud and let the side shoots grow. Right. It reduces apical dominance and all that. But there is no space to pinch the bud. You can see in the picture that I pinched the plant, the side shoot has grown, and immediately budded without growing out at all. I could technically pinch this bud but I’m so pessimistic about it that I’m posting on Reddit instead. What am I supposed to do here? If this keeps going in this pattern of bud pinch bud pinch, I end up with no basil, just twice as many flower pinches every week. (This is not a joke, I did that last time I tried to grow basil. Not fun!!)
I don’t believe it’s heat. the highs are only 85 and the plant is in half shade. It’s getting watered deeply whenever the soil is somewhat dry. There’s no pest pressure at the moment. I’m using high nitrogen fertilizer on the packet schedule.
My dream is for someone to hold my hand and go, tealeaf egg, don’t worry, that bud is actually just tricking you and if you just do nothing it will turn into basil leaves. You are driving yourself insane for no reason.
Anyway, if you got down here, thank you so much. Please drop your basil growing advice.
I have a very narrow walkway in between my house and the fence which runs East/West. The plantable strip next to the fence is maybe 14 inches wide and covered in gravel. I’m looking for a vining plant that could grow on the fence for more privacy. Ideally something evergreen that is drought tolerant. Nice flowers would be a bonus.
As the title implies, I have a garden mystery that I found on my jalapeño plant today. I have been gardening in LA - zone 10a for seven years and seen my fair share of things from all types of molds to pests to the eldritch horrors that occasionally visit my compost pile but never before have I seen anything like this. I’m guessing it’s a type of mold but also, there is a gigantic jumping spider, the most behemoth baby I’ve ever laid eyes on, living around this plant so…could it be a web w eggs? Is it an intense white fly infestation? Or am I growing the bubonic plague? I have definitely not been overwatering this soil — today was the first time I watered in almost a week. Please help! Thanks in advance!
Yet again and this time it got my tomato plants too that are foot away in another box. Used some neem oil today, hoping it saves my tomatoes at least. Any ideas how to prevent?
This is my 2.5 year-old potted lemon meyer tree. Does it need to be pruned? And if so, which branches?
It was recently repotted to a larger container, as pictured. So far, it has only produced 1 lemon, about 1.5 years ago.
Thank you in advance for any guidance!
Anyone growing good mangoes and interested in sharing scions?
I have a few going/grafted and would like to add more.
I’m interested in any Indian varieties.