r/containergardening

Beets, onions, carrots and potatoes growing in milk crates, Rubbermaid totes, pots, and a couple baskets!

This is my second year growing tomatoes in zone 7b. I’ve made some improvements based on radial cracking I had in almost all of my beefsteaks last year. No signs of cracking so far, and my plants are exceeding 5ft tall which is where they capped out during late summer last year. 🤞🏻

- upping from 10g to 15g pots
- moving from light airy potting mix that dried out quickly to a 50:50 potting mix garden soil blend
- feeding more intentionally: weekly balanced liquid fertilizer for first 6 weeks of outdoor growth then switching to higher P and K fertilizer after blossoms form

Varieties: all seeds purchased from Botanical Interests
- bumblebee cherries (pink, yellow or purple)
- beefy purple bush
- black krim

I've gotten very few tomatoes this year as Winston Squirrelchill and his wife have moved in on me. First piece of advice, pick them when they first blush, squirrels don't eat green tomatoes...... Winston Squirrelchill says hold my beer. Wrap the fruit in these bags, that'll work. Not so, says Winston. Then last night, hanging on my sprinkler rain sensor - a taunt from Winston. Well played squirrels, well played.

My strawberry plant is finally producing a bunch of flowers but every strawberry I get is eaten by earwigs :( I have diatomaceous earth and have tried a soy sauce and oil trap but I still find them on my strawberries every night. I’m in Illinois and have been getting a ton of rain. Any tips to get rid of them?

This has been an exceptionally weird weather year. Strawberry’s suffered the heat and have mostly mushed. Radishes bolted hard. This week was very wet and hot. Temps 30-40c. I did a lot of air flow pruning to hopefully combat the humidity, and shade cloth to hopefully prevent rot.

Successes: lettuce - romaine has done well but all needs to be harvested as the heat is starting to bolt them. The tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and beans are all coming along and the cabbage looks fabulous as well. Cannabis is doing its thing with LST but will be a late harvest given the cold spring.

Can’t wait for the fuchsias to pop!

I bought a broccoli plant from a garden center back in May. It was growing fantastic, starting to look like what I would expect broccoli to look like. I left for a week for vacation, and came back to this monstrosity! It tripled in height and grew stems? What should I do now? Can I just cut all those stems off and get it to go back to making the normal broccoli part? What would everyone advise?

Hey everyone! Im trying to grow snap peas and beets. I put the seeds in the soil and in plastic bags, I was spritzing water on it, but I had to go out of town for 2 days. I came back and the seeds are sprouting but it looks like there’s mold on it. can someone tell me if I can fix this? because they are sprouting now I moved them outside. This is my first time growing things from seeds (or basically anything)

Ive figured out ive been dealing with some fungus gnats. I was just dealing with lawn mites a minute ago but neem oil seemed to help with that. Now the gnats. I cant tell if theyre in every tote but theyre definitely in my peppers. Its my first time gardening with success so im not sure what to do. Watering has my wonky due to the heat wave that just came through.

Well that's just escalated.

Had to share my little strawberry harvest from my balcony garden.

Storms just blew through here in PA. I'm guessing it had to be blowing 80mph.

is this ready to harvest? if not, how will i know when its ready?

I know that root bumps on tomatoes are normal, but this looks a little more severe than that and looks like it could have caused the stem to be eaten away in some places. Should I be concerned? I’m a newbie gardener so I could very well be doing something wrong with watering or soil, etc. I’m in Philly and it’s been hot and humid as hell so that might be playing a role as well.

Pics taken this morning after consecutive days of 100 degree temps.