r/vegetablegardening

Thanks to you all for the help in figuring out the best time to harvest this monster of a melon. Weighed in at 35lbs and tastes incredible! 🍉

My husband's coworker raises chickens and we've purchased eggs from them before (which we both love!!). Turns out they were wanting cucumbers and like any inexperienced cuke grower, i had way too many lol. Ended up giving them a basket of various peppers, tomatoes, and cukes that we already knew were extra in exchange for 2 dozen eggs and fresh honey. Super stoked!!

(Also not sure if this kind of post is allowed since it's not 100% gardening related so mods feel free to let me know and I'll remove - I just thought it was fun but wasn't sure where to share!)

Edit: thank you for the award!!

A bunch of big ol chonky cukes...from one overachieving H19 Little Leaf cucumber plant.

The biggest ones look just like the cukes I see my local deli use for half sours.

First two pictures are from when my sun gold and better boy were thriving. Other pictures are of me killing them unintentionally.

Was going great for weeks, started to get yellowing out of nowhere. Added fish fert and they bounced back a bit, but things took a turn and full branches started dying quickly, many fully yellowed, leaves shriveled up and became brown but not fully crispy. Now I’m left with a naked plant. New growth is still green though.

Soil is clay, planted in ground for the first time. Not sure if it’s over or under watering, disease, or a mixture of both. Looking for thoughts and advice on where I went wrong and what to change going forward.

There was a birdfeeder here that had lots corn bits. Is this corn? If so, what can I expect as it ages? If not, what do I have here?

Edit: Solved! Identified as sorghum.

Is it some kind of rot? Im new to this, all the others seem fine so far.

I admit I had to look up the part that was missing, I had no clue it was called locular gel thought it was just the slimy seed part. But really, what is happening and how do I resolve going forward or how do I avoid it happening in next years crop?

napa chardonnay and black cherry

Hi everyone,

I recently bought this young olive tree and noticed it already has clusters of little flower buds. I’m assuming these are flowers that could eventually develop into olives?

Because the tree is new and still quite small, should I leave the flowers alone and let it try to fruit, or remove them so it can put its energy into establishing its roots and growing stronger?

I’d also appreciate any advice about sunlight, watering, feeding and whether it needs another olive tree nearby for successful pollination.

Thanks!

My first veggie garden in a new growing zone and my kids’ first garden ever. We’ve had the best time in this productive sanctuary! Today’s harvest, and we hope to get another couple of months of growing before frosts arrive.

We knew the pumpkins were ready. Cool 😎
The Cucumbers and Zucchini seemed to go from getting close to huge.
The Banana peppers HAD to be picked as they were breaking the plants over and laying on the ground.
We have at least as many banana peppers still out there tho we want them to change color.
Bells were breaking the plants too.
We only picked what we had too.
This happened after it rained hard for several days then I worked a week straight at my job.
I believe this was a Warning that we are about to be Really busy very soon.
Canning Season has entered the chat.

It was such a sad day digging up potato peels and leftove chunks.

There were even plants without a single whole potato left!

293 potatoes planted, 7 varieties. One late variety is still in the ground... And I won't have enough storage potatoes this year.

There was a huge network of tunnels right under potatoes, and I don't know if it was a mole who built the metro, or did the rodents dig the tunnels themselves.

I've never seen this level of destruction before. Mice, voles, rats? How can I avoid this repeating next year?