r/gardening

I am obsessed with my sunflower. Summers are harsh here in the mid Atlantic with tornados and thunderstorms… this is my first year growing sunflowers but I learned that my dogs love to eat premature sunflower plants. So here is my one sunflower I was able to grow this year. You cAn actually see one of my sunflowers in a pot in front of me, leaves are completely eaten. How tall do we think she is?? I think she’s at least 8ft. I don’t have a tape measure or ruler right now. For reference I am 5’5.

The heat has really taken a toll on the garden but we’re still getting some lovely things, the tomatoes are in full swing now!

costoluto fiorentino beefsteaks, tomato ‘tiger’, green zebra, black cherry, Millefleur Yellow Vine Tomato and some random ones from some nice supermarket cherry tomatoes. Pattypan squash, round green courgette, purple French beans, runner beans and a boothby’s blonde cucumber (last of the season) and some raspberries. All organic

Before you ask, the white "rope" fencing is hot wire to keep my dogs (and various critters) from eating my produce ( and our dogs love tomatoes, and like to blow thru the rows like the Kool-Aid guy). The pics are of the cutting garden and the veg side. Fun in the front, business in the back 😂 the veggie side of the taken-over-by-birdhouse-gourd arch is corn, Brussels, cabbage, cauliflower , celery, peppers, eggplant and tomatoes. And this doesn't even show the raised beds that have all the root veg and squash. I always question my sanity this time is year, but by God it fills my cup 💕

My neighbor gave me this lovely assortment of peppers and I want to make sure to use them all before they turn. Any suggestions? I’m contemplating pickling the majority but open to other ideas.

I picked up a small, unlabeled bag of dahlia tubers at Dollarama on a whim earlier this year and planted them in a pot on my deck. As a first-time grower, I honestly didn't expect much, but look at these results! The geometric symmetry and deep berry-and-white contrast look almost airbrushed. Safe to say I'm officially hooked for life!

95 degrees F, full sun.

The pic is like a fifth of the garden area. The local farmer's market told me to get as much cardboard as I wanted, and it took about eight pick-up truck beds full of broken-down cardboard to cover the whole area.

Starting back up at 9 tomorrow morning. I have a helper, so one of us shovels and one of us hauls and spreads.

Forgive the weeds. The summer garden is more or less done, and I'm not going to bust ass weeding stuff I'm about to till under.

Does anyone know what's going on here and why they're doing this?

The fact that summer is ending soon is bitter sweet. No more humid days but that means my flowers die back It’s been a great ride! I have something new planned for next year.

My mom had my oldest sister in 1989, my next sister in 1993, and me in 1997. She tried almost every year for a garden, but was too busy essentially raising me and my sisters almost entirely on her own. This year she finally got her garden to produce. I'm so proud of her. At 71, she finally got her dream. Enjoy her peppers.

We've had for awhile now a strawberry plant basket hanging above the ground (probably 2 feet off the ground?) and normally the fruit has been growing normally. I just picked these ones today and they seemed to be the only ones shaped this way, the others seemed fine.

Does anyone know why they came out this way?

EDIT: Just to reiterate, these 4 were the only ones shaped this way. There's some round ones growing at the same time that I haven't picked yet

I let the last head on my artichoke flower because I had never seen it before. I love the purple 💜 😍

I keep seeing this cloth on FB pictures.

Is it good to use it? I’m worried that it will increase the soil temperature, and effecting the growth of our vegetable plants. Is that anything to worry about?

If it’s a good product, where do you buy it? This stuff looks super heavy duty.

Do I need to worry about micro plastics?

I'm loving this colorful and plentiful harvest I gathered from my community garden!

I believe that is a brown belted bumblebee.

Plant is Downy Gentian, a native, but this is cultivated.

I live in marginal Zone 4/5!

Hole / bite marks appear all the way up the stem

One of these guys has been hanging out for a few weeks. Now he(she?) has a companion. Some people have manicured gardens, but mine’s pretty wild. Maybe they like that!