[Errant]

The sweet pepper harvest was stunning this year. About 18 or 20 plants. They seemed to languish for a loonngg time. Then....boom. Anyway, we picked two and a half bushels. We kept some out for the dehydrator. Also a few to stuff and put in the smoker.
Wife unit has a family recipe for a sweet pepper relish. It's taken us two days, but it's done. 28 pints ......holy shit. This is a lifetimes worth at our age. We've still got beets and jalapenos to deal with. So... how did my friends here fare in the garden this year?

 

[Taco Salad]

This is only my second year having a garden and last year was a lot better than this one. Some things like hot peppers produced extremely well and others like tomatoes we got almost nothing. Broccoli, cabbage and kohlrabi did well but yellow, butternut, and acorn squash did poorly.

Overall I can't complain too much and will work to have a better year next year.

 

[Errant]

This is only my second year having a garden and last year was a lot better than this one. Some things like hot peppers produced extremely well and others like tomatoes we got almost nothing. Broccoli, cabbage and kohlrabi did well but yellow, butternut, and acorn squash did poorly.

Overall I can't complain too much and will work to have a better year next year.

It's a wonderful thing. Gardening is zenlike for me. A chance to observe and interact on a really basic level. My tomatoes did terribly this year. Most everything else did fine. So....next year I'll put more time and effort into tomatoes.

 

[TNTRAILERTRASH]

I brought home a pepper plant from Lowe's. It gave my tomatoes and peppers with aphids. I stiil have some tomatoes growing. On is almost 8ft high and really scraggly. I tried starting some Peruvian lemon peppers. It took 3 1/2 weeks to germinate! Me and my sweetie got some already started ones in the mail. They are really kicking. I am going to bring them inside to keep them from dying. I will winter them in the house. They have a lemony yet hot taste. I need to harvest what few Tobascos I have before the freeze next week. I dosed all of them with fish emulsion 2 days ago.

You can actually winter peppers and tomatoes indoors or in a heated greenhouse. They can last 3 of more years.

Romas is the only type I have grown.

Just growing in pots.

 

[greg_r]

I grow a container garden at the 2nd house. Only hi-yield plants through the summer. Tomatoes , squash, peppers, etc. they are all in the compost now and I have turnips planted. I start of the year with carrots, radishes, and cabbage.

I think I will expand the garden over the winter, maybe do raised beds. Thinking about replacing the containers with 40 gallon galvanized stock tanks from Tractor Supply.

 

[RACHGIER]

Does it count if I'm building a hydroponic cloning system along with six 6x6 raised beds that have a built-in metered water/feeding system and a tracked adjustable height LED grow lamp system for my buddy the weed grower?

 

[lklawson]

Does it count if I'm building a hydroponic cloning system along with six 6x6 raised beds that have a built-in metered water/feeding system and a tracked adjustable height LED grow lamp system for my buddy the weed grower?

My friends with gardens frequently give me "over production." This year I've been doing a lot of lacto-ferment "pickling" and returning about half of it back to them. Cukes, cayenne and jalapeno peppers, and some other stuff; even pickled eggs w/ onions. The only thing I didn't like how it turned out was the radishes. Lacto-fermenting them totally kills the "bite" in the radishes. They're OK on sandwiches but it's just not the same. Don't think I'll try it again.

I thought about fermenting tomatoes but couldn't talk myself into it. Thought about trying "sour corn" because we had a pretty good crop of sweet corn locally this year but I waited too long. Maybe next year.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[MaryB]

Wet sprind then hail wiped out everything that was coming up then drought all summer really limited my gardens production. Got some lettuce, a few radishes, a decent amount of tomatoes, 10 pounds of potatoes(hail stunted their production too, 5 hills), a handful of jalapenos from the plants that looked like sticks after the hail storm, a few green peppers... carrots, spinach, beets, sweet corn never came back and produced after the hail flattened them. Got a dozen 2 inch long carrots... was just a bad year weather wise. My cukes did well(didn't germinate until after the hail storm), same for the single hill of acorn squash.

Hail was bad enough that it blew holes in the solar hot air panel front plastic sheet. It heats the porch in winter...

 

[Errant]

Wet sprind then hail wiped out everything that was coming up then drought all summer really limited my gardens production. Got some lettuce, a few radishes, a decent amount of tomatoes, 10 pounds of potatoes(hail stunted their production too, 5 hills), a handful of jalapenos from the plants that looked like sticks after the hail storm, a few green peppers... carrots, spinach, beets, sweet corn never came back and produced after the hail flattened them. Got a dozen 2 inch long carrots... was just a bad year weather wise. My cukes did well(didn't germinate until after the hail storm), same for the single hill of acorn squash.

Hail was bad enough that it blew holes in the solar hot air panel front plastic sheet. It heats the porch in winter...

That's a hail storm. We haven't had one like that for a long time. You stand inside and watch hail knowing what it's doing to the garden....a real kick in the gut.
We picked some eggplant and made five pans of eggplant lasagne. It goes in the freezer for winter maels. Still got beets and finish up the jalapenos. Always something.

 

[Taco Salad]

I grow a container garden at the 2nd house. Only hi-yield plants through the summer. Tomatoes , squash, peppers, etc. they are all in the compost now and I have turnips planted. I start of the year with carrots, radishes, and cabbage.

I think I will expand the garden over the winter, maybe do raised beds. Thinking about replacing the containers with 40 gallon galvanized stock tanks from Tractor Supply.

Have you thought about a barrel garden?

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/266486502922884687/

You can make the barrels yourself. Just need a barrel, a saw, a beer bottle, and a heat gun.

 

[greg_r]

Have you thought about a barrel garden?

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/266486502922884687/

You can make the barrels yourself. Just need a barrel, a saw, a beer bottle, and a heat gun.

Not used plastic barrels, but I do have 3 and 5 tier strawberry pots.